Six Favorite Symphonists

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March 21, 2015, 06:06:05 AM
Who are your six favorite symphonists? I'll go first....(in no particular order):

RVW
Sibelius
Nielsen
Shostakovich
Bruckner
Mahler

Christo

#1
March 21, 2015, 06:10:53 AM
Ooooff.

Brian
Holmboe
Nielsen
Shostakovich
Tubin
Vaughan Williams   :)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Sergeant Rock

#2
March 21, 2015, 06:19:12 AM
Mahler
Bruckner
Vaughan Williams
Haydn
Sibelius
Brian
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Sammy

#3
March 21, 2015, 06:22:34 AM
Haydn
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Weinberg
Mahler
Bruckner

springrite

#4
March 21, 2015, 06:23:32 AM
Mahler
Beethoven
Brian
Haydn
Rubbra
Brahms
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

ritter

#5
March 21, 2015, 06:27:44 AM
I'm rather conventional as far as this one is concerned, I'm afraid (with the odd exception):

Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Bruckner
Mahler
Krenek
(chronological order)

Runner-ups: Nielsen, Casella, Enescu

alkan

#6
March 21, 2015, 06:36:17 AM Last Edit: March 21, 2015, 06:38:07 AM by alkan
Haydn   (first choice by a long way, and excellent value for money .... 104 symphonies for the cost of just one composer)
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Nielsen
Mahler
Bruckner

Vaughan Williams  (substitute player in case of injury to any of the first team squad)
Brahms   (but disqualified for not writing enough symphonies)
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison (1934 - )

springrite

#7
March 21, 2015, 06:41:09 AM
Quote from: alkan on March 21, 2015, 06:36:17 AM
Haydn   (first choice by a long way, and excellent value for money .... 104 symphonies for the cost of just one composer)
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Nielsen
Mahler
Bruckner

Vaughan Williams  (substitute player in case of injury to any of the first team squad)
Brahms   (but disqualified for not writing enough symphonies)

You need a longer bench, especially since one of your players can't seem to hear any audibles!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

alkan

#8
March 21, 2015, 06:46:42 AM
Quote from: springrite on March 21, 2015, 06:41:09 AM
You need a longer bench, especially since one of your players can't seem to hear any audibles!
It's OK.   He's our goalkeeper.     Doesn't need to communicate much ....   just needs to keep out potshots from Tubin, Holmboe, Krenek, Weinberg, Brian and other second division players ...    :P 
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison (1934 - )

North Star

#9
March 21, 2015, 06:53:28 AM
Sibelius
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Haydn
Brahms
Nielsen
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Todd

#10
March 21, 2015, 07:01:14 AM
Beethoven
Haydn
Mahler
Brahms
Dvorak
Sibelius
The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

Wanderer

#11
March 21, 2015, 09:00:56 AM
Beethoven
Brahms
Bruckner
Schumann
Sibelius
Vaughan Williams

Jo498

#12
March 21, 2015, 09:38:32 AM
Haydn
Beethoven
Mahler
Brahms
Bruckner
#6 not sure: I love a few late Mozart symphonies but 3/4 of the 40+ are juvenilia, I am fond of several symphonies of Sibelius and Shostakovich but far less so of others. I like Schumann and Mendelssohn a lot but not mainly for their symphonies. Love Dvorak 6-8 but do not care for 1-3. Haven't really got RWV (although I have listened to all of his once or so)
I think I go with Nielsen, although I have not really caught fire with the 6th symphony I love his 3-5 and like 1+2.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

EigenUser

#13
March 21, 2015, 12:58:25 PM
No particular order:

Schumann
Mendelssohn (for the string symphonies and the 1st full symphony)
Mahler
Bruckner
Haydn

Not sure about the sixth. I guess Beethoven, but I need to become more familiar with his symphonies. I am not familiar with 1, 2 and 4 (much better than where I was about six months ago!).
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

vandermolen

#14
March 21, 2015, 01:13:00 PM
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Bruckner
Tubin
Miaskovsky
Rubbra

If it was 'greatest' would include Sibelius and Mahler.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

PaulR

#15
March 21, 2015, 03:39:18 PM
Shostakovich
Weinberg
Beethoven
Bruckner
Schnittke

vandermolen

#16
March 22, 2015, 12:28:13 AM
Quote from: alkan on March 21, 2015, 06:36:17 AM
Vaughan Williams  (substitute player in case of injury to any of the first team squad)
Brahms   (but disqualified for not writing enough symphonies)

Vaughan Williams a 'substitute' >:( :o ??? :'(

Whatever next!!!?

:)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Marc

#17
March 22, 2015, 01:18:33 AM Last Edit: March 22, 2015, 03:25:37 PM by Marc
Ha, lists!
Hate them, love them.

Here's another conventional one:

1 Mozart
2 Mahler
3 Brahms
4 Beethoven
5 Tchaikovsky
6 Haydn

Runner-up: Bruckner.
And I also adore Schubert, Mendelssohn and Dvorak in this genre.

(Which makes a Top 10 :).)

amw

#18
March 22, 2015, 01:30:56 AM
Haydn
Dvořák
Beethoven
Nielsen
Schubert
Lutosławski
Stravinsky

Seven. I play by my own rules.

Minor Key

#19
March 22, 2015, 11:23:17 AM
Here are mine, in order:
1. Mahler
2. Schubert
3. Beethoven
4. Mozart
5. Sibelius
6. Vaughan Williams
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