Your Top 10 Favorite French Composers

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Ganondorf

#100
April 30, 2021, 05:46:27 AM
Berlioz
Debussy
Saint-Saëns
Ravel
Bizet

Toh

#101
June 22, 2023, 11:24:53 AM
Berlioz
Couperin, François
Debussy
Dukas
Fauré
Franck
Gounod
Janequin
Messiaen
Ravel

San Antone

#102
June 22, 2023, 01:02:47 PM
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

#103
June 22, 2023, 01:13:58 PM
In no particular order:

Ravel
Debussy
Berlioz
Saint-Saëns
Bizet
Alkan
Roussel
Satie
Fauré
Milhaud
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

Symphonic Addict

#104
June 22, 2023, 02:03:43 PM
Today's list in order of preference:

Saint-Saëns
Poulenc
Roussel
Ravel
Milhaud
Fauré
Magnard
Schmitt
Cras
Alkan
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Dry Brett Kavanaugh

#105
June 22, 2023, 02:16:38 PM
Ibert
Duphly
Auric
Massenet
Poulenc
Roussel
Dukas
Bizet
Satie
Debussy


Wanderer

#106
June 23, 2023, 04:03:01 AM
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

#107
June 25, 2023, 10:58:23 AM
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
July 01, 2023, 10:56:01 AM Last Edit: July 01, 2023, 12:06:56 PM by kyjo
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

#109
July 01, 2023, 11:19:35 AM
Hmmmm....

Today's list, in no particular order

Rameau
Couperin
Charpentier
Leclair
Auber
Delibes
Bizet
Faure
Saint-Saens
Massenet
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. — Claude Debussy

atardecer

#110
July 15, 2023, 07:33:21 PM
Ravel
Debussy
Messiaen
Machaut
Poulenc
Rameau
Lully
Couperin

"In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyze and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest." - Fernando Pessoa

atardecer

#111
July 15, 2023, 07:47:10 PM
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
"In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyze and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest." - Fernando Pessoa

Toh

#112
August 18, 2023, 02:49:15 AM Last Edit: August 18, 2023, 09:56:03 AM by Toh
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
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