GMG 2014 Composer of the Year Award

[snyprrr]

Shostakovich

[snyprrr]

And... yes... Brian and Haydn are ALWAYS tied for 2nd!

[North Star]

I thought Henning was GMG's Composer of the Year..

[Gurn Blanston]

I thought Henning was GMG's Composer of the Year..

He is, no worries. Otherwise it would be Haydn, if we are talking old dead guys here... 0:)

[Cato]

I thought Henning was GMG's Composer of the Year..

Amen!  And if Luke Ottevanger shared his more recent activity...

[Brian]

My guesses.

EigenUser......Ligeti
snyprrr.........Shostakovich
Mirror Image..Richard Strauss
Ken B...........Stockhausen CPE Bach
Gurn............Haydn
Discobole......Haydn
GSMoeller.....Bruckner
Brian...........Schubert

[snyprrr]

My guesses.

EigenUser......Ligeti
snyprrr.........Shostakovich
Mirror Image..Richard Strauss
Ken B...........Stockhausen CPE Bach
Gurn............Haydn
Discobole......Haydn
GSMoeller.....Bruckner
Brian...........Schubert

WHAT ABOUT JAMES???

[North Star]

My guesses.

Brian...........Schubert

I think you probably got at least one right. 

MI - John Luther Adams
EigenUser - Bartók or Ligeti
James - André Rieu^* 

[Brian]

MI - John Luther Adams

Now, MI has a new composer every week, and that's the current one, but besides JLA he's gone through R. Strauss, Delius, Poulenc, and a very long stretch of non-classical.

[Sergeant Rock]

Now, MI has a new composer every week, and that's the current one, but besides JLA he's gone through R. Strauss, Delius, Poulenc, and a very long stretch of non-classical.

Exactly...now, if the thread were titled Composer of the Hour, one could guess MI's choice...if one were quick enough.

Sarge

[amw]

Seems like it's been Haydn year from here... I don't know that the big man's ever gotten so much attention from a bunch of Mahler-Shostakovich-Pettersson-Havergal Brian addicts as in 2014.

Like MI I have a new composer every week but if I had to name one from this year I'm strongly tempted to say JN Hummel.

[EigenUser]

Here is (roughly) my composer of the year history.
2004 - Mendelssohn
2005 - Bartok
2007 - Shostakovich
2008 - Gershwin
2011 - Ravel
2012 - Ligeti
2013 - Debussy
2014 - Haydn, Feldman, Messiaen up front, then Mahler, Schumann, Ades, Ohana, Ockeghem, Webern -- even Boulez!

My impressions (may be incorrect, of course):
Brian - Dvorak
James - Stockhausen
snyprrr - Shostakovich
Ken B - Nyman
Sarge - Mahler
Karl - Stravinsky
Cato - Schoenberg
John (MI) - Shostakovich
Z7 - Brahms
milk - Feldman
Greg (monkey) - Bruckner

[Moonfish]

So - I am confused - what is the actual question in this thread? Which composer each person was most influenced by (or interested in) over the course of the year or which composer that dominated in the GMG posts? Or predicting which composer each person was interested in?   

[TheGSMoeller]

Nate and Brian called it, Bruckner for me.
I would say there's a chance that 15% of my listening this year was Bruckner. And that's insane considering the size of my collection.

[Mirror Image]

Karlo (North Star) had it right by saying John Luther Adams. Shostakovich or Schnittke would be the other choices.

[snyprrr]

So - I am confused - what is the actual question in this thread? Which composer each person was most influenced by (or interested in) over the course of the year or which composer that dominated in the GMG posts? Or predicting which composer each person was interested in?   

Yes!

Karlo (North Star) had it right by saying John Luther Adams. Shostakovich or Schnittke would be the other choices.

actually, I would have pegged you for Schnittke- but that was earlier in the year... Schnittke is who made me jump over to the Shosty 15th, and then that's all she wrote...

I can't even imagine who might be next... can't even imagine... Bruckner??? early Bartok?.... Prok...?...naaaw....

[North Star]

Here is (roughly) my composer of the year history.
2004 - Mendelssohn
2005 - Bartok
2007 - Shostakovich
2008 - Gershwin
2011 - Ravel
2012 - Ligeti
2013 - Debussy
2014 - Haydn, Feldman, Messiaen up front, then Mahler, Schumann, Ades, Ohana, Ockeghem, Webern -- even Boulez!

You seem to have peaked in 2011, Nate. 

[Mirror Image]

actually, I would have pegged you for Schnittke- but that was earlier in the year... Schnittke is who made me jump over to the Shosty 15th, and then that's all she wrote...

I can't even imagine who might be next... can't even imagine... Bruckner??? early Bartok?.... Prok...?...naaaw....

Schnittke was definitely my 'Composer of the Year' last year. That's when I finally clicked with his music. When I heard Schnittke's Cello Concerto No. 1 that's all it took for me to dive back into his music.

[Todd]

Handel for the first half of the year, Liszt for the second.

[Henk]

Pécou