Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

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Karl Henning

#400
August 19, 2015, 11:03:52 AM
I should not have cast that stone, Karlo  0:)

Quote from: karlhenning on May 06, 2015, 04:25:29 AM
My next-earlier post seems to have been at a time when we were allowing an even dozen:

I was aware of "missing" Berlioz, Nielsen & Sibelius this go-around;  they have not fallen into "disfavor," strictly speaking . . . as the names came to my mind, though, I acknowledged that in fact I have not been listening to much (any) of their music of late.  Likewise, although they've been absent from my recent listening, Bach & Rakhmaninov remain best-loved composers.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

North Star

#401
August 19, 2015, 11:19:56 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 19, 2015, 11:03:52 AM
I should not have cast that stone, Karlo  0:)
Ha! And yours was a list of twelve.  >:D
I was somewhat surprised that my list was so nearly identical to the earlier draft. And I feel sorry for Bartók.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Karl Henning

#402
August 19, 2015, 11:22:23 AM
Quote from: North Star on August 19, 2015, 11:19:56 AM
Ha! And yours was a list of twelve.  >:D

I know.

And it would be bad form to plead, Well, everyone was doing it . . . .

8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

North Star

#403
August 19, 2015, 11:30:55 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 19, 2015, 11:22:23 AM
I know.

And it would be bad form to plead, Well, everyone was doing it . . . .

8)
I meant merely that you dropped Berlioz from a longer list than I did. I suppose a smaller drop is a blessing.   0:)
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

Brahmsian

#404
August 19, 2015, 11:41:55 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 19, 2015, 11:18:44 AM
One change since my last list.  I'll buy the fellow who finds it a drink.   ;)

John Cage
Morton Feldman
Guillaume de Machaut
Franz Liszt
Igor Stravinsky
Claude Debussy
Guillaume Dufay
Johannes Ockeghem
Josquin des Prez
Olivier Messiaen

Ockeghem?  :)

Brahmsian

#405
August 19, 2015, 11:46:13 AM
Haven't looked at any previous lists' I might have made, but I don't think much has changed:

Ray's Mighty Top Three

Beethoven/Brahms/Shostakovich

plus,

Bruckner
Mozart
Prokofiev
Schubert
Schumann
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky

ZauberdrachenNr.7

#406
August 19, 2015, 12:19:41 PM
Quote from: orfeo on August 19, 2015, 08:10:23 AM
*bangs head on desk quietly*

This thread has basically become "Hi, welcome! Please become more like me!". Complete with creepy smile.

Uh, oh!  I must have poor personality integration - I have a tendency to look at these lists and think, "Oh, maybe I should become more like you." :o Complete with creepy smile.  :)

Brian

#407
August 19, 2015, 12:23:13 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 19, 2015, 12:12:37 PM
No, he's been there all along.  But  I will buy you a drink anyway since you are the only one to answer.  Liszt is new to my list.

:)
When this thread came up this morning I was thinking, "You know, sanantonio probably has Liszt on his list now with listening to the sonata so much." But I didn't see that you actually had written a new post. Oops!

sheri1983

#408
August 19, 2015, 01:25:22 PM
Quote from: North Star on August 19, 2015, 07:42:44 AM
Some more recommendations on that note:

Kodaly: Sonata for Solo Cello
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Pärt: Fratres for 12 Cellos
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Poulenc: Cello Sonata
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata no. 1 in F minor, Cello Sonata
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras nos. 1 & 5
Great!  :)
Without music, life would be a mistake. - Nietzsche

Mirror Image

#409
August 19, 2015, 02:49:00 PM
My new monthly 'Top 10' (in no particular order):

Nielsen
Sibelius
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Bartók
Ravel
Takemitsu
Schnittke
Martinů
Koechlin

Brian

#410
August 19, 2015, 04:14:59 PM
Quote from: Brian on August 19, 2015, 10:36:49 AM
Since this thread began, Mirror Image has listed a total of 22 composers in his top 10.  8)
Now 23 or possibly 24, too lazy to check.

Mirror Image

#411
August 19, 2015, 04:59:05 PM
Quote from: Brian on August 19, 2015, 10:36:49 AM
Since this thread began, Mirror Image has listed a total of 22 composers in his top 10.  8)

Quote from: karlhenning on August 19, 2015, 10:42:29 AM
He's just warming up!  0:)

Wow, you guys cut me no slack whatsoever. I like it! ;D

Karl Henning

#412
August 20, 2015, 03:01:03 AM
Cheers!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Jo498

#413
August 20, 2015, 03:38:17 AM
If one takes Mirror Image's  avatar volatility as a yardstick 22 for 10 is a remarkable display of constancy and restraint... ;)
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

Mirror Image

#414
August 20, 2015, 03:42:09 AM
Quote from: Jo498 on August 20, 2015, 03:38:17 AM
If one takes Mirror Image's  avatar volatility as a yardstick 22 for 10 is a remarkable display of constancy and restraint... ;)

I'm not anything unless I'm consistent. ;D

Karl Henning

#415
August 20, 2015, 03:48:24 AM
Well, and Karlo & I are, I believe, affirming the impossibility of the endeavor  8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mirror Image

#416
August 20, 2015, 03:42:42 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 20, 2015, 03:48:24 AM
Well, and Karlo & I are, I believe, affirming the impossibility of the endeavor  8)

;D

Jaakko Keskinen

#417
November 24, 2015, 07:12:51 AM
Wagner
Beethoven
Brahms
Debussy
Rachmaninoff
R. Strauss
Puccini
Korngold/Verdi
Tchaikovsky
Sibelius
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Mirror Image

#418
November 24, 2015, 07:39:56 AM
What my 'Top 10' looks like for this month...haha...(in no particular order) -

Sibelius
Rachmaninov
Bartok
Ravel
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Nielsen
Britten

Madiel

#419
November 25, 2015, 12:42:34 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 24, 2015, 07:39:56 AM
What my 'Top 10' looks like for this month...haha...(in no particular order) -

Sibelius
Rachmaninov
Bartok
Ravel
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Nielsen
Britten

Not only are you living in the past, it's possible to date fairly precisely which bit of the past you're living in.
Nobody has to apologise for using their brain.
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