Top 11-25 composers

[Brahmsian]

1-10
Beethoven
Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Schubert
Brahms
Schumann
Mahler
Handel
Bartok

11-25
Chopin
Dvorak
Mendelssohn
Wagner
Bruckner
Purcell
Debussy
Ravel
Tchaikovsky
Stravinsky
Berg
Prokofiev
Berlioz
Monteverdi
Shostakovich

Past 15 or so it gets quite difficult. For the last 10 spots, some could or should have been swapped for Fauré, Janacek, Sibelius, Nielsen, D. Scarlatti, Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Dowland, Liszt... With such composers I am often only familiar with or care for a part of their oeuvre. E.g. I have never really explored Janacek operas, the largest part of his work, or I care surprisingly little for some of Debussy's and Ravel's orchestral works but am very fond of their chamber and piano music, and so on.

Out of everyone that has provided a full list, mine is closest to yours, Jo. We share 18 composers out of the 25.

[Jo498]

Interesting, because nowadays I am anything but an "orchestral nut", I like orchestral music but tend to listen to more piano and chamber. But as I said above, such lists don't only represent current listening but decades of history and I probably put Berlioz or Tchaikovsky there before Scarlatti or Fauré because I have known their music for a longer period of time.

[Brahmsian]

Interesting, because nowadays I am anything but an "orchestral nut", I like orchestral music but tend to listen to more piano and chamber. But as I said above, such lists don't only represent current listening but decades of history and I probably put Berlioz or Tchaikovsky there before Scarlatti or Fauré because I have known their music for a longer period of time.

Well, I use to be a "chamber nut" for many years.