Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[Madiel]

And your point would be?

Nothing beyond noticing that all 10 were alive simultaneously and a great many of them were active around the same early 20th century period. Although I admit that Britten is a bit of a young whippersnapper.

EDIT: Alberich, Beethoven does a rather effective job of ensuring this can't apply to your list.

[Mirror Image]

Whether I listen to music of the past or the present, I'll always listen to music that moves me and gives me gratification. I could really careless what the time frame is of the music I enjoy. It just so happens that the early 20th Century contains my most cherished composers and so what if it does?

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Whether I listen to music of the past or the present, I'll always listen to music that moves me and gives me gratification. I could really careless what the time frame is of the music I enjoy. It just so happens that the early 20th Century contains my most cherished composers and so what if it does?

Precisely.

Excellence.

Excellence.

Excellence.

That's all that matters in human endeavor.

Everything else is just wind in the chimes.

[Mirror Image]

Precisely.

Excellence.

Excellence.

Excellence.

That's all that matters in human endeavor.

Everything else is just wind in the chimes.

No argument here.

[Madiel]

Whether I listen to music of the past or the present, I'll always listen to music that moves me and gives me gratification. I could really careless what the time frame is of the music I enjoy. It just so happens that the early 20th Century contains my most cherished composers and so what if it does?

You seem to be under the impression I was offering a criticism. I wasn't.

[Mirror Image]

You seem to be under the impression I was offering a criticism. I wasn't.

Well, you should know as well as I do that sarcasm and what you really meant to say doesn't always come off well on the internet. No worries.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Substituting Tchaikovsky with Berlioz.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Substituting Tchaikovsky with Berlioz.

Not a bad substitution...not that I don't like Tchaikovsky...I certainly do...just probably listen more to Berlioz...

[ludwigii]

These are the composers I most loved (I think), in descending order :

Schnittke
Prokofiev
Mozart
Schubert
Brahms
Shostakovich
Bartok
Mahler
J.S.Bach
W.Walton

[Karl Henning]

These are the composers I most loved (I think), in descending order :

Schnittke
Prokofiev
Mozart
Schubert
Brahms
Shostakovich
Bartok
Mahler
J.S.Bach
W.Walton

Nice list!

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[Mirror Image]

These are the composers I most loved (I think), in descending order :

Schnittke
Prokofiev
Mozart
Schubert
Brahms
Shostakovich
Bartok
Mahler
J.S.Bach
W.Walton

Yes, very nice list indeed.

[Brian]

1. Beethoven
2. Dvorak
3. Schubert
4. Chopin
5. Ravel
6. Janacek
7. Berlioz
8. Haydn
9. Martinu Brahms
10. Schumann Martinu

Well, that was an easy update.

Well that was another easy update.

[Karl Henning]

Well that was another easy update.

Gotta say it. Doesn't affect our friendship. (We're friends, right?)

NO RUSSIANS?

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[Brian]

Gotta say it. Doesn't affect our friendship. (We're friends, right?)

NO RUSSIANS?

Huh, you're right, no Russians! I do love Rach, and Shosty, and Rimsky, and Borodin. And Tchaikovsky. Maybe some of them are in the top 20...

[Mirror Image]

Another feeble attempt at a 'Top 10' (in no particular order):

Ravel
Bartók
Sibelius
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Rachmaninov
Schnittke
Martinů
Shostakovich

Five Honorable Mentions: Janáček, Prokofiev, Britten, Szymanowski, and Villa-Lobos.

[Chronochromie]

Why not.

In chronological order:

Monteverdi
Rameau
Beethoven
Schubert
Berlioz
Debussy
Schoenberg
Messiaen
Ligeti

...Bartók or Stravinsky? That's the question right now.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

For today, my ever changing list will be:

Boulez
Birtwistle
Monteverdi
L. Boulanger
Ferneyhough
Berio
H. Grime
Ligeti
Adès
Brett Dean

[Florestan]

My list hasn´t changed and it is very unlikely it will ever change.

Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Chopin
Schumann
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff

Now, what is ever changeable is my top 10 honorable mentions. 

As of now:

Telemann
Tartini
CPE Bach
D. Scarlatti
Franz Krommer
Louis Spohr
Felix Mendelssohn
Josef Rheinberger
Antonin Dvorak
Felix Weingartner

[Karl Henning]

Huh, you're right, no Russians! I do love Rach, and Shosty, and Rimsky, and Borodin. And Tchaikovsky. Maybe some of them are in the top 20...

My cavil aside, swapping Brahms in for Schumann was The Right Thing.

[North Star]

Compiling this without looking at my previous list, I see I removed Berlioz to make room for Mozart.

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Janáček
Mozart
Prokofiev
Ravel
Sibelius
Stravinsky

I do feel that Berlioz and Rakhmaninov ought to be on the list, but that would just mean extending the list to twelve. And I'm sure that nobody wants to see that happen.  0:)