Just discovered this place

[radicle]

Just discovered this site & its forum: bouncing around YouTube, I came across a composer I'd never heard (Yngve Sköld) and googling led me here.
   I haven't been on a music forum for years, and will probably not have much to contribute, but like to read what others are thinking. I have no musical training, experience, talent or education, but I like to listen. Obsession comes and goes.
   Having nothing more to say, I thought I'd scroll through my YouTube "Like" list and report what I found: everything from Petula Clark, Eduard Khil, Eddie Cantor and Babymetal through to Sarah Kirkland Snider, Geirr Tveitt and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.
   I suspect that I am like many non-experts in navigating through classical music by reference to composers more than by performers, while pop music goes by performer rather than composer. Harnoncourt was a favorite living performer but he isn't any more. Favorite composers so far include Haydn, Nielsen, Purcell, Holmboe, Rubbra, Ockeghem, Buxtehude and on and on.

Look forward to snooping around here.

[Marc]

Have fun here

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a happy new year!

[prémont]

Favorite composers so far include Haydn, Nielsen, Purcell, Holmboe, Rubbra, Ockeghem, Buxtehude and on and on.

Welcome to the forum.

Being Danish myself I notice with interest, that three of the seven composers you mention here, are Danish.

[Dax]

Just discovered this site & its forum: bouncing around YouTube, I came across a composer I'd never heard (Yngve Sköld) and googling led me here.
   I haven't been on a music forum for years, and will probably not have much to contribute, but like to read what others are thinking. I have no musical training, experience, talent or education, but I like to listen. Obsession comes and goes.
   Having nothing more to say, I thought I'd scroll through my YouTube "Like" list and report what I found: everything from Petula Clark, Eduard Khil, Eddie Cantor and Babymetal through to Sarah Kirkland Snider, Geirr Tveitt and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.
   I suspect that I am like many non-experts in navigating through classical music by reference to composers more than by performers, while pop music goes by performer rather than composer. Harnoncourt was a favorite living performer but he isn't any more. Favorite composers so far include Haydn, Nielsen, Purcell, Holmboe, Rubbra, Ockeghem, Buxtehude and on and on.

Look forward to snooping around here.

Sounds as though you've come to the right place! Welcome!

[North Star]

Welcome to GMG! You'll fit right in.

[aligreto]

Welcome aboard, have fun and enjoy 

[Hollywood]

Hi there radicle. Greetings from Haydn's Vienna. Welcome to the forum. 

[Karl Henning]

Welcome, and enjoy your snooping!

[Mirror Image]

Welcome aboard! Enjoy your time here.

[radicle]

three of the seven composers you mention here, are Danish.

Yes indeed, but I can't explain that fact. Also, my Christmas listening had a lot of Helene Blum's album "En sød og liflig klang" though I have no Danish. It's a mystery to me.

[mc ukrneal]

Welcome and have fun!

[Mirror Image]

Yes indeed, but I can't explain that fact.

No need to explain, radicle. Any fan of Nielsen's music is a friend of mine.

[prémont]

No need to explain, radicle. Any fan of Nielsen's music is a friend of mine.

Seconded!

[vandermolen]

Welcome from me too - a fellow Rubbra admirer. 

[bhodges]

Hello, radicle, and welcome. In addition to the other marvelous composers you mentioned, lovely to see Sarah Kirkland Snider on the list. (Another Nielsen fan here, too.)

In any case, have a good time here -- many knowledgeable and friendly folks running around.

--Bruce

[Monsieur Croche]

Just discovered this site & its forum: bouncing around YouTube, I came across a composer I'd never heard (Yngve Sköld) and googling led me here.
   I haven't been on a music forum for years, and will probably not have much to contribute, but like to read what others are thinking. I have no musical training, experience, talent or education, but I like to listen. Obsession comes and goes.
   Having nothing more to say, I thought I'd scroll through my YouTube "Like" list and report what I found: everything from Petula Clark, Eduard Khil, Eddie Cantor and Babymetal through to Sarah Kirkland Snider, Geirr Tveitt and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.
   I suspect that I am like many non-experts in navigating through classical music by reference to composers more than by performers, while pop music goes by performer rather than composer. Harnoncourt was a favorite living performer but he isn't any more. Favorite composers so far include Haydn, Nielsen, Purcell, Holmboe, Rubbra, Ockeghem, Buxtehude and on and on.

Look forward to snooping around here.

On music fora, I think I've 'discovered' more composers and / or works new to me by glancing at the 'what are you listening to now' category than anywhere else.  Of course it is entirely a matter of whim, caprice and taste of who is listening to what, and when, but that is often the fun of it, too.

Welcome, and best regards.