Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[Ken B]

You "boring" guys sound a bit like Hugh Hefner lamenting he was never with any plain women.

[Christo]

To some, 'great names' are not always the dearest composers they know. That's all.

[vandermolen]

To some, 'great names' are not always the dearest composers they know. That's all.

Absolutely and nothing 'boring' about that too. Am just discovering Schubert. 

[Moonfish]

Heck, I am doing 21 as well! Perhaps a bit traditional.  I need to bring in more Baroque composers into the 21 "realm"!

Bach
Elgar
Sibelius
R Strauss
Wagner
Verdi
Beethoven
Chopin
Bruckner
Mozart
Weiss
Marais
Haydn
Schubert
Mahler
Debussy
Rameau
Vaughan Williams
Brahms
Vivaldi
Dvorak

[vandermolen]

Heck, I am doing 21 as well! Perhaps a bit traditional.  I need to bring in more Baroque composers into the 21 "realm"!

Bach
Elgar
Sibelius
R Strauss
Wagner
Verdi
Beethoven
Chopin
Bruckner
Mozart
Weiss
Marais
Haydn
Schubert
Mahler
Debussy
Rameau
Vaughan Williams
Brahms
Vivaldi
Dvorak

No 'need' to do anything I would have thought. Your list features the composers whom many would consider 'greatest' I guess. I don't know Weiss and Marais so must investigate them. I recognise that many of my favourite composers ( those whose music means the most to me and that I find most enjoyable) are not necessarily 'great composers'. Very interesting to see peoples lists.

[Jo498]

You "boring" guys sound a bit like Hugh Hefner lamenting he was never with any plain women.

If I see lists of which I am not even familiar with some names and of several others I know nothing except the names, one could rather get the impression that I was only with blondes and missing a lot out there. But there is only so much time and energy to spend and as we know (some) gentlemen just prefer blondes...

[/sexist pig mode]

[Christo]

one could rather get the impression that I was only with blondes and missing a lot out there. But there is only so much time and energy to spend and as we know (some) gentlemen just prefer blondes...

Interesting! A Top 21 from that perspective would perhaps look like:
 

[Jo498]

white = blonde?
It seems that more composers were dark-haired than blonde, although there are many where I do not have a clue. Vivaldi was the "red priest" and Mozart apparently also reddish-light brown, but all the other bewigged and powdered guys?

[Madiel]

Hmm. Somewhere along the line I managed a top 17 of this site, and I wrote it down... and now I can use that again for a top 10, but with one adjustment as a composer has done well enough with more recent purchases/discoveries to win a place higher up.

In chronological order:

Bach, J.S.
Haydn
Beethoven
Chopin
Brahms
Dvorak
Faure
Rachmaninov
Ravel
Holmboe

[Brian]

Now hang on, wasn't this Top Three before?

1. Beethoven
2. Dvorak
T3. Chopin
T3. Schubert
5. Ravel
6. Janacek
7. Berlioz
8. Haydn
9. Martinu
10. Tchaikovsky Schumann

Well, that was an easy update.

[Mirror Image]

A newly revised list:

1. Elgar
2. Delius
3. RVW
4. Bartók
5. Ravel
6. R. Strauss
7. Britten
8. Sibelius
9. Janáček
10. Villa-Lobos

[ibanezmonster]

A newly revised list:

1. Elgar
2. Delius
3. RVW
4. Bartók
5. Ravel
6. R. Strauss
7. Britten
8. Sibelius
9. Janáček
10. Villa-Lobos

Maybe you should stop making lists... Shostakovich isn't even on that one.

[Madiel]

The axis of power has swung to the English.

[Karl Henning]

Well, that was an easy update.

Какой ужас!

[Sergeant Rock]

Will the real MI please stand up 

I'll start...

1. Ravel
2. Bartok
3. Stravinsky
4. Poulenc
5. Shostakovich
6. Villa-Lobos
7. Vaughan Williams
8. Szymanowski
9. Janacek10. Berg

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

Newly revised list:

1. Elgar
2. RVW
3. Shostakovich
4. Ravel
5. Bartok
6. Stravinsky
7. Britten
8. Schnittke
9. Berg
10. Martinu

Newly revised list:

1. Elgar
2. RVW
3. Shostakovich
4. Ravel
5. Bartok
6. Britten
7. Stravinsky
8. Berg
9. Martinu
10. Sculthorpe

A newly revised list:

1. Elgar
2. Delius
3. RVW
4. Bartók
5. Ravel
6. R. Strauss
7. Britten
8. Sibelius
9. Janáček
10. Villa-Lobos

[North Star]

Will the real MI please stand up 

[mc ukrneal]

Maybe you should stop making lists... Shostakovich isn't even on that one.

I am so confused. How can he fall that far?!?!? This adds to Sarge's list...

For DavidW:

1. Ravel
2. Bartok
3. Stravinsky
4. Poulenc
5. Shostakovich
...

Here's going to be a difficult list to make (for some), but narrow down your favorite composers to three choices and THREE CHOICES ONLY PLEASE!!!! No honorable mentions and no second guessing. This is your final list of three composers who you couldn't live without and that give you the most satisfaction of them all. Now go!!!

Mine would be the following:

Shostakovich:



Schnittke:



Hartmann:

Abiding Bulldog's wishes to pick one and one only I choose Shostakovich. I don't think I could ever be without his music and his music, especially over the past few months, has conjured up so many feelings for me.

[Madiel]

The word that springs to mind is "flighty".

[Christo]

If that's the true spirit here, my revised list may now look like:

1. Strauss (all of them)
2. Jenkins Karl
3. Stockhausen James
4. Schicklgruber
5. Pachelbel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM)
6. Mozart (père)
7. Brahms (fils)
8. Bourgeois Derek
9. Schumann (the German, double n)
10. Nanes Richard

[Mirror Image]

Oh, boy. I see I'm the butt of some jokes again. I love it! I guess this just proves what a difficult task it is to narrow down your favorites to only 10 choices.