Instruments associated with Composers

[The new erato]

Ligeti: ocarina

No; Metronome!

Shostakovich: viola - beacuse og the wonderful writing for the instrument in many of his Quartets.
Francaix: bassoon - been listening to lots of his chamber works with winds recently, and the bassoon has a typical French joie de vivre in those works.

[Rinaldo]

Harry Partch: that thing with that something holding those things

[Brahmsian]

Well, Stravinsky/Bassoon may be because of the beginning of Rite of Spring. 

There is also a terrific bassoon passage at the beginning of the final movement of Stravinsky's Symphony in C.

[Karl Henning]

And wonderful and poignant bassoon lines in L'histoire du soldat.

[Pat B]

No; Metronome!

Wagner: Wagner Tuba

[San Antone]

The bassoon part  in the Stravinsky octet is memorable.

[aligreto]

All good offerings guys, thank you 

[North Star]

No, but I think what Stravinsky did there is plenty. 

Well, thinking about this, there really are lots of important bassoon parts, e.g. in Symphony of Psalms (in the opening, with oboes) in addition to those mentioned by others.

[some guy]

We're going to eventually get to a place. So I hope y'all don't feel like jumping all over me for jumping to that place too soon.

But yeah, intruments are associated with composers, it's true. They use them, all of them. Perhaps one or two stand out from time to time, but really. Stravinsky used all sorts of instruments and used them all very well.

It's a thing that composers do, on the whole.

But to redeem myself by playing the game according to the rules (which I can totally do, I mean it):

Cage, piano (prepared or not)

Varese, tape recorder

eRikm, turntable

Yoshihide, turntable

Tone, CD player

Meirino, any audio equipment that's broken

Bolleter, any piano that's ruined

Messiaen, Ondes Martenot

[Karl Henning]

Berlioz, ophicleide