Your One and Only Soulmate Composer

[Zama]

Mahler for me too.

Nice post. Thanks.

[Rinaldo]

The one and only composer whose music, no matter how familiar or how new, unfailingly touches and stirs the deepest recesses of your soul...

The one and only composer whose music you feel encapsulates the whole gamut of human experience, from the darkest despair to the most exhilarating joy and everything in between...

The one and only composer whose music you feel to be the most humane, companionable and life-affirming...

I'd be lying to myself if I didn't admit my most immediate answer to all these questions is Philip Glass.

[Mirror Image]

The one and only composer whose music, no matter how familiar or how new, unfailingly touches and stirs the deepest recesses of your soul...

The one and only composer whose music you feel encapsulates the whole gamut of human experience, from the darkest despair to the most exhilarating joy and everything in between...

The one and only composer whose music you feel to be the most humane, companionable and life-affirming...[/b][/size].

For me, it's merely a question of 'coming home' and 'home' in this sense can only be Debussy and no other. His music is like a safe haven and no matter what happens, I always remain completely fulfilled by his music. It's really like a soothing balm for this troubled world that I can escape into and feel completely at peace with everything.

[Florestan]

For me, it's merely a question of 'coming home' and 'home' in this sense can only be Debussy and no other. His music is like a safe haven and no matter what happens, I always remain completely fulfilled by his music. It's really like a soothing balm for this troubled world that I can escape into and feel completely at peace with everything.

Very well put, John. Schubert it is for me.

[Mirror Image]

Very well put, John. Schubert it is for me.

[Biffo]

Now we have moved on to three composers I would add Mahler, who has obsessed me almost as much (possibly more) as Berlioz over the years and Beethoven. if I was banished to that fabled desert island I would take Mozart; it would be a big wrench to leave behind Vaughan Williams.

[Florestan]

if I was banished to that fabled desert island I would take Mozart

It goes without saying. 

[FelixSkodi]

Liza Lim

[caters]

Beethoven. He is deep in my roots and I feel that he expresses every possible emotion in his music.

Joy like no other:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9EJE1ad36Q
After the dramatic, Scherzo-like introduction, it becomes joyful outside of a few variations(Double Fugue is joyful for instance)

Desperation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByS9DHxysSI

Mourning Melancholy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaHmbNI2Bgk

Oh No! I'm Trapped Here! Help Me!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pQytF2nak

Nocturnal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8oX-A8swk

Adrenaline Rush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifj8dwuAzAQ

Mysterious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7D746GtsWk

Everyday Happiness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfF0zHeU3Zs

Among many other pieces and emotions they express.

[Brian]

My answer is Beethoven followed by Dvorak, but wtf? Nobody has even mentioned Haydn?!?

[Skogwald]

I love this question. For some reason my first instinct was Martinu.

Maybe I also have a certain Nordic sensibility, which makes me especially love Sibelius, Holmboe and Norgard.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Beethoven, Mahler, Chopin, Berlioz.

I love their music just about equally, but as a man if I had to pick a combination of integrity, suffering, originality, flamboyance, and idealism, it would have to be - Berlioz.

[Cato]

I love this question. For some reason my first instinct was Martinu.

Maybe I also have a certain Nordic sensibility, which makes me especially love Sibelius, Holmboe and Norgard.

Quite easy to understand!

I see that I answered 4 years ago with the "Trinity" of Bruckner, Mahler, and Schoenberg.

I will stay with that, but certainly I have a Russian Trinity of S. Taneyev, Scriabin, and Tcherepnin.*


(Alexander or his father Nicolai, on alternating days!   

[Luke]

I mean... Janacek. Obviously.

Unless it's Tippett. I think it might be Tippett.

Or Ravel.