Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

   
Rameau is barking at the door and wants to get into my "list"!



Why does nobody like Verdi???   

I'm sympathetic, Moonshine, Rameau wants fiercely to break into my list o' Top Ten, too!  My Top Ten has changed quite a bit since last time I did this, mostly because of GMGers' influence. However, speaking of barking, Brahms is still top dog.

Johannes, the Love Dog God, Brahms.
Stravinsky
Sibelius
Mahler
Martinu
Poulenc
Debussy
Wagner
Berlioz
Duparc (on the strength of several of the greatest songs ever written!)

Sadly, Schubert & Bach have fallen off my list, not w/o tears,   after being on it for decades. Still Top Twenty, though.

[Ken B]

Schoenberg and Brahms...tie

My eyes! My eyes!

[Karl Henning]

Nobody tell Harry! 

[Ken B]

Nobody tell Harry! 

I hope Sarge isn't on probation. That has got to be a violation.

[Mirror Image]

Top 10 Favorite Composers (revised):

1. Schnittke



2. Shostakovich:



3. Bartók:



4. Ravel:



5. Stravinsky:



6. Britten:



7. Sibelius:



8. Berg:



9. Prokofiev:



10. Schoenberg:

[Ken B]

You forgot Boulez John.

I will bookmark your denial for future reference

[Moonfish]

Top 10 Favorite Composers (revised):

RVW didn't make it ?!?!?!?!   

[Moonfish]

You forgot Boulez John.

I will bookmark your denial for future reference

You mean Boules...   
I actually like boules... a glass of wine.... a  sunset... and a special person...

[Mirror Image]

You forgot Boulez John.

I will bookmark your denial for future reference

Lol..Ken. That's a good one!

[Mirror Image]

RVW didn't make it ?!?!?!?!   

As much as I love ol' Ralph, he simply didn't make the cut this time around. The newest arrival to my top 10 is Schoenberg and this has been because of my increasing interest in his music both from an emotional and intellectual point-of-view.

[Fagotterdämmerung]

  I'm always a bit hesitant on favorite composers lists: I always feel I'm loving these composers' works in different ways and for different reasons. Also, while choice number one is easy, I feel the rest could kind of be arranged in any way in the top fifteen or so.

  1. Olivier Messiaen
  2. Igor Stravinsky
  3. Arnold Schoenberg
  4. Richard Strauss
  5. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  6. György Ligeti
  7. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  8. Béla Bartók
  9. Leoš Janáček
  10. Alexander Scriabin

 

   

[jochanaan]

Not even going to go here.  I'm way too much of a "Ruby Tuesday...change with every new day..."

[Karl Henning]

Not even going to go here.  I'm way too much of a "Ruby Tuesday...change with every new day..."

Aye . . . as soon as I come up with a list of ten, I think of an eleventh whom it pains me to have omitted . . . .

[North Star]

As I stated earlier, I like the top 30 thread more.

[Philo]

As I stated earlier, I like the top 30 thread more.

And I'd much prefer a top 5. I mean, I've loved all of the composers I've come across thus far (hundreds upon hundreds), but I like the task of distillation.

[Fagotterdämmerung]

  Top half a composer. I'll take the first half of Stravinsky, i.e. until 1926.

[Philo]

  Top half a composer. I'll take the first half of Stravinsky, i.e. until 1926.

HA! And I'd take the first half of Brahms's compositional output.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

  I'm always a bit hesitant on favorite composers lists: I always feel I'm loving these composers' works in different ways and for different reasons. Also, while choice number one is easy, I feel the rest could kind of be arranged in any way in the top fifteen or so.

  1. Olivier Messiaen
  2. Igor Stravinsky
  3. Arnold Schoenberg
  4. Richard Strauss
  5. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  6. György Ligeti
  7. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  8. Béla Bartók
  9. Leoš Janáček
  10. Alexander Scriabin

Boy, do I like this tasty list...

[North Star]

And I'd much prefer a top 5. I mean, I've loved all of the composers I've come across thus far (hundreds upon hundreds), but I like the task of distillation.

Yes, I like that more (most) too. Ten is just a weird compromise.

[Philo]

Yes, I like that more (most) too. Ten is just a weird compromise.

Agreed. Although, it is strange. I struggle much more with a list of 10 than I do with a list of 5. I enjoy the strictures of such a rigid delimit. And numbers higher than 10, I struggle with even more. I cannot think of a single composer who I don't enjoy who I've invested any sort of time into. There's just so much good stuff.