Your Top 20 Favorite Composers

[Mirror Image]

I'll start...

1. Ravel -



2. Bartok -



3. Stravinsky -



4. Poulenc -



5. Shostakovich -



6. Villa-Lobos -



7. Vaughan Williams -



8. Szymanowski -



9. Janacek -



10. Berg -



11. Prokofiev -



12. Elgar -



13. Debussy -



14. Martinu -



15. Schnittke -



16. Sibelius -



17. Sculthorpe -



18. Schoenberg -



19. Respighi -



20. Barber -



So there you have it. Okay, your turn!

[Moonfish]

None of the composers working before 1870 qualify in your top 20 list?  *gasp*     

[North Star]

Perhaps something like this:

Britten
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Martinů
Berg
Stravinsky
Bartók
Ravel
Schönberg
Sibelius
Debussy
Janáček
Tchaikovsky
Brahms
Berlioz
Chopin
Schubert
Beethoven
Mozart
Bach

[Ken B]

Top 3, top 10, now top 20.  If you guys are waiting until Ravel and Debussy make my list ... Keep going 

And  to John!

[Karl Henning]

Top 3, top 10, now top 20.  If you guys are waiting until Ravel and Debussy make my list ... Keep going 

And  to John!

(* chortle *)

[Mirror Image]

Top 3, top 10, now top 20.  If you guys are waiting until Ravel and Debussy make my list ... Keep going 

And  to John!

[DavidW]

Could you post a list without the pictures MI?  It's hard to absorb with so much space between each name.

For me:

01. Bach
02. Handel
03. Vivaldi
04. Beethoven
05. Haydn
06. Mozart
07. Bruckner
08. Brahms
09. Chopin
10. Dvorak
11. Faure
12. Mahler
13. Mendelssohn
14. Tchaikovsky
15. Schubert
16. Schumann
17. Bartok
18. Schoenberg
19. Shostakovich
20. Stravinsky

[TheGSMoeller]

Richard Strauss
William Byrd
Heinrich I. F. Biber
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Franz Joseph Haydn
Hector Berlioz
Charles Ives
Sergei Prokofiev
Benjamin Britten
Philip Glass
John Dowland
Claudio Monteverdi
J.S. Bach
Antonio Vivaldi
Georg Philipp Telemann
W. A. Mozart
Franz Schubert
Edward Elgar
Alban Berg
Francis Poulenc
Alfred Schnittke
Michael Nyman
Pascal Dusapin
David Lang
Paul Schoenfield

Again, here's my list of 25 from two years ago. Take away any 5, replace a few with Brahms and Bruckner, perhaps even Faure, and I'm content. 

[Mirror Image]

Could you post a list without the pictures MI?  It's hard to absorb with so much space between each name.

How about I just remove the names and leave the pictures up? The whole reason I posted the names and their pictures because it's different and it's nice to get a face along with a name sometimes.

[DavidW]

How about I just remove the names and leave the pictures up? The whole reason I posted the names and their pictures because it's different and it's nice to get a face along with a name sometimes.

No that is absolutely worse.  Each picture should have a name.  I'm not asking for you to modify your post, I'm asking for a new post with just the names.

[Mirror Image]

For DavidW:

1. Ravel
2. Bartok
3. Stravinsky
4. Poulenc
5. Shostakovich
6. Villa-Lobos
7. Vaughan Williams
8. Szymanowski
9. Janacek
10. Berg
11. Prokofiev
12. Elgar
13. Debussy
14. Martinu
15. Schnittke
16. Sibelius
17. Sculthorpe
18. Schoenberg
19. Respighi
20. Barber

[DavidW]

Thanks!

[Mirror Image]

Thanks!

No problem.

[Lisztianwagner]

Mine could be:

Wagner
Beethoven
Liszt
Mahler
Rachmaninov
Johann Strauss II
Tchaikovsky
Richard Strauss
Mozart
Ravel
Holst
Shostakovich
Chopin
Sibelius
Debussy
Brahms
Nielsen
Prokofiev
Bruckner
Dvořák

[Lisztianwagner]

I'll start...

1. Ravel -

Wow, I didn't know you liked Ravel so much, John!

[Rinaldo]

Alan Hovhaness
Arvo Pärt
Bohuslav Martinů
Ferruccio Busoni
Francis Poulenc
Georg Friedrich Händel
Gérard Grisey
Henry Purcell
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Josquin des Prez
Ludwig van Beethoven
Miloslav Kabeláč
Morton Feldman
Petr Eben
Philip Glass
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Rued Langgaard
Steve Reich
William Lawes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ask me again in a few years.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn (1732-1809)
Mozart (1756-1791)
Beethoven (1770-1827)
Schubert (1797-1828)
Wagner (1813-1883)
Bruckner (1824-1896)
Brahms (1833-1897)
Dvorak (1841-1904)
Elgar (1857-1934)
Mahler (1860-1911)
Richard Strauss (1864-1948)
Sibelius (1865-1957)
Albéric Magnard (1865-1914)
Nielsen (1865-1931)
Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Schoenberg b.1874-1951)
Franz Schmidt 1874-1939)
Havergal Brian (1876-1972)
Shostakovich 1906-1975) or Prokofiev (1891-1953)  (Still can't decide which I like better  )


Sarge

[North Star]

Nice lists, Ilaria, Sarge & Rinaldo - I particularly like how Sarge has arranged the list 

[EigenUser]

I'll give 10. If I put 20, I think that I'd have a hard time justifying calling the last 5 or so "favorites". Other than the top 3, the rest are always changing depending on what I am listening to and exploring at the time. Currently,
1. Bela Bartok (this never changes)
2. Maurice Ravel
3. Gyorgy Ligeti (holds record for fastest ascent on my list -- hasn't even been two years since I first heard his music!)
4. Igor Stravinsky
5. George Gershwin
6. Claude Debussy (Listening to "Gigues" and "Iberia" as I type this)
7. Morton Feldman (though I have a lot to explore, I've come to like his style enough to consider him a favorite)
8. Felix Mendelssohn (yes, I like "older" music, too!)
9. J.S. Bach (see?!)
10. Antonin Dvorak

[EigenUser]

Top 3, top 10, now top 20.  If you guys are waiting until Ravel and Debussy make my list ... Keep going 

And  to John!

What's wrong with Debussy? And what on earth is wrong with Ravel?!

(jk, it's cool)