Your favourite composer of orchestral music

[Florestan]

I missed the part where my opinion had to match yours.

Did you really?

That's what you wrote:

no-one can outdo Haydn when it comes to an Andante.

To which I replied as I did.

[Ken B]

Concertos: Mozart
Everything else: banana, with Stravinsky second

[Madiel]

Did you really?

That's what you wrote:

To which I replied as I did.

On a thread called YOUR FAVOURITE COMPOSER.

Grow up.

[Ken B]

I missed the part where my opinion had to match yours.

I miised the part where on a discussion board if you state an opinion others cannot disagree without you without your getting hostile.

[Madiel]

I miised the part where on a discussion board if you state an opinion others cannot disagree without you without your getting hostile.

It's not just "on a discussion board", it's on a particular thread. On THIS thread, they're entitled to have a different favourite composer. They're not entitled to frame it in a way that sounds like a lecture about how my answer was wrong. If we were on a thread where opinions were supposed to be about an objective fact, it would be completely different.

Twice now, he's said "Really?". We're not talking about something that is 'real', we're talking about my personal subjective opinion. I would have thought that was obvious from the context of the thread. Frankly, saying "Really?" in this context comes across as a patronising and insulting expression of disbelief. It comes across as "how could you like Haydn's Andantes so much, here's a list of Andantes you're supposed to like more". He gets a sharp response accordingly.

[HIPster]

Haydn for me.

Two years ago it would have been Beethoven, hands down.

I suppose my current faves list would look like this:

Haydn
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Lou Harrison
Mozart

[Dancing Divertimentian]

For symphonies alone: Bruckner strides like a colossus over the entire lot of others (even over Mahler ).

Symphonic poems/incidental/other: Debussy, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky

Concertos: Bartok, Prokofiev, Mozart

[Florestan]

It's not just "on a discussion board", it's on a particular thread. On THIS thread, they're entitled to have a different favourite composer. They're not entitled to frame it in a way that sounds like a lecture about how my answer was wrong. If we were on a thread where opinions were supposed to be about an objective fact, it would be completely different.

Twice now, he's said "Really?". We're not talking about something that is 'real', we're talking about my personal subjective opinion. I would have thought that was obvious from the context of the thread. Frankly, saying "Really?" in this context comes across as a patronising and insulting expression of disbelief. It comes across as "how could you like Haydn's Andantes so much, here's a list of Andantes you're supposed to like more". He gets a sharp response accordingly.

Wow! Ranting, ranting, little boy... 

Your turn to grow up, or at least to cool off, man!

[Israfel the Black]

For symphonies, it's Bruckner, but it's Mozart overall.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Wagner, Beethoven, Liszt, Bruckner, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Rachmaninov... But especially Wagner and Beethoven.

[71 dB]

Edward Elgar
Sergei Taneyev
Carl Nielsen
Heitor Villa-Lobos

[mszczuj]

Beethoven

[Mirror Image]

Edward Elgar
Sergei Taneyev
Carl Nielsen
Heitor Villa-Lobos

Nice list, 71dB. I didn't know you were such a Villa-Lobos fan. We'll have to talk about his music one day.

[71 dB]

Nice list, 71dB. I didn't know you were such a Villa-Lobos fan. We'll have to talk about his music one day.

Yes, I like Villa-Lobos. I have mentioned it here, but not too often.  0:)

I'm fond of the way Villa-Lobos uses orchesta. Therefor I list him as one of my favorite composer of orchestral music.

[johnshade]

R Strauss  Bartok  Beethoven  Brahms

[Mirror Image]

Yes, I like Villa-Lobos. I have mentioned it here, but not too often.  0:)

I'm fond of the way Villa-Lobos uses orchesta. Therefor I list him as one of my favorite composer of orchestral music.

It's okay your Villa-Lobos secret is safe with me. Yeah, Villa-Lobos didn't hold back when it came to orchestration. Large barrages of exotic percussion abound.

[71 dB]

It's okay your Villa-Lobos secret is safe with me.

What a relief!! 

I have about 2 dozen CDs of Villa-Lobos. I have always collected his music slowly. Most of his music is kind of unknown territory and even unperformed! 

[Mirror Image]

What a relief!! 

I have about 2 dozen CDs of Villa-Lobos. I have always collected his music slowly. Most of his music is kind of unknown territory and even unperformed! 

It seems that most of his music is unknown territory for a lot of people. You and I excluded of course.