Your Top 10 Favorite French Composers

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Ganondorf


Toh

Berlioz
Couperin, François
Debussy
Dukas
Fauré
Franck
Gounod
Janequin
Messiaen
Ravel

San Antone

Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377)
Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397 – 1474)
Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 – 1521)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)
Pascal Dusapin (born 1955)


Lisztianwagner

In no particular order:

Ravel
Debussy
Berlioz
Saint-Saëns
Bizet
Alkan
Roussel
Satie
Fauré
Milhaud
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Symphonic Addict

Today's list in order of preference:

Saint-Saëns
Poulenc
Roussel
Ravel
Milhaud
Fauré
Magnard
Schmitt
Cras
Alkan
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Ibert
Duphly
Auric
Massenet
Poulenc
Roussel
Dukas
Bizet
Satie
Debussy



Wanderer

Quote from: Wanderer on January 25, 2018, 07:12:33 AMCharpentier
Lully
Alkan
Berlioz
Ravel
Debussy
Saint-Saëns
Messiaen
Poulenc
Offenbach


I'd add Leclair, Delalande, Widor and Vierne.

vandermolen

Another go!

Auric
Dutilleux
Sauguet
Damase
Cras
Debussy
Honegger
Koechlin
Magnard
Ibert
"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).

kyjo

#108
In some order of preference:

Poulenc
Saint-Saëns
Ravel
Damase
Roussel
Cras
Magnard
Fauré
Berlioz
Ibert


(I'm counting Honegger as Swiss, btw.)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Florestan

Hmmmm....

Today's list, in no particular order

Rameau
Couperin
Charpentier
Leclair
Auber
Delibes
Bizet
Faure
Saint-Saens
Massenet
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

atardecer

Ravel
Debussy
Messiaen
Machaut
Poulenc
Rameau
Lully
Couperin

"Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent." - Rumi

"Outwardly limited, boundless inwardly." - Goethe

"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master." - Diogenes

atardecer

Quote from: atardecer on July 15, 2023, 07:33:21 PMRavel
Debussy
Messiaen
Machaut
Poulenc
Rameau
Lully
Couperin



One more I forgot - Guillaume Du Fay
"Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent." - Rumi

"Outwardly limited, boundless inwardly." - Goethe

"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master." - Diogenes

Toh

#112
Another try:

1. Claude Debussy
2. Maurice Ravel
3. Gabriel Fauré
4. Camille Saint-Saëns
5. Hector Berlioz
6. Georges Bizet
7. Jean-Baptiste Lully
8. Jean-Philippe Rameau
9. Olivier Messiaen
10. César Franck

Honorable mention:

11. Pierre Boulez
12. Pierre Henry
13. Jules Massenet
14. Marc-Antoine Charpentier
15. Francis Poulenc
16. Léo Delibes
17. François Couperin
18. Edgard Varèse
19. Paul Dukas
20. Erik Satie
21. Jacques Offenbach
22. Charles Gounod
23. Pierre Schaeffer
24. Josquin des Prés
25. Darius Milhaud
26. Guillaume de Machaut
27. Gilles Binchois
28. Henri Dutilleux
29. Thierry Escaich
30. Maurice Duruflé
31. Charles-Valentin Alkan
32. Guillaume Dufay
33. Ernest Chausson
34. Clément Janequin
35. Karol Beffa
36. Arthur Honegger
37. Gérard Grisey
38. Marcel Dupré
39. Lili Boulanger
40. Marin Marais