Your Top 10 Favorite French Composers

Started by Christo, January 24, 2018, 10:27:43 PM

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Christo

THE solution for ALL YOUR DILEMMAS with the 'Your Top 10 Favorites' thread: :laugh:
Quote from: ritter on January 24, 2018, 06:11:12 AM
I thought Jeux would have (or actually had)  tipped the balance in Claude de France's favour...but no  :(. Still, you give perfectly legitimate reasons to prefer one composer over the other (even if I do  not share them   ;) ).
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 24, 2018, 04:45:11 PM
G'day to you, Rafael. I hope everything is well with you. Yeah, you know I do love Claude, but the balance was tipped in Ravel's favor for the afore mentioned reasons. But, you know, we certainly can't control what we like --- we just have to accept what are ears happen to be drawn to. :)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Christo

First attempt:
Bizet
Saint-Saëns
Debussy
Pierné
Ravel
Roussel
Koechlin
Tournemire
Sauguet
Dutilleux
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

ComposerOfAvantGarde

Boulez
Machaut
Radigue
Dhomont
Perotin
Risset
Messiaen
Murail
Manoury
Grisey
Mantovani

I guess Mantovani can drop off if I really really really must limit it to 10

GioCar

Ok let's play again

Berlioz
Bizet
Boulez
F Couperin
Debussy
Dutilleux
Grisey
Messiaen
Rameau
Ravel

Excluding the Franco-Flemish composers, otherwise Josquin would in in the list, replacing Ravel



ritter

#4
Voyons...

I'll exclude French composers who were not French born (e.g., Lully, Hahn)..I know, this is "cheating by rigouristy", but OTOH  I am not applying GMG's peculiar arithmetic rules, according to which 12 or 15 names fit in a list of 10  :D

Par date de naissance:

Rameau
Berlioz
Chabrier
Debussy
Dukas
Roussel
Schmitt
Ravel
Milhaud
Messiaen
Boulez


(It's curious to see that the chien flasque has not yet appeared on any list)

amw

Berlioz
Fauré
Ferrari
Grisey
Poulenc
Couperin (Louis)
Machaut
Bizet
Ravel
Dhomont

Probably

Jo498

in no particular order and while I like several composers and pieces a lot I generally do not seem to be in harmony with the French aesthetic (normal for a German, I guess... we always preferred Italy and ocassionally Greece). I'll skip the Franco-Flemish and Medieval composers.

Fauré
Ravel
Rameau
Berlioz
Debussy
Couperin (Francois)
Bizet
Roussel
Saint-Saens
Chausson
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

GioCar

Quote from: ritter on January 25, 2018, 12:13:18 AM

(It's curious to see that the chien flasque has not yet appeared on any list)

Personally I know very little by him  (I had to google that :-[) but what I know doesn't appeal to me... ;)

ComposerOfAvantGarde

I love the music of Satie but unfortunately there are too many French composers I enjoy more than can fit on a top 10 list. I can't even happily narrow it down to 10, unfortunately.

mc ukrneal

I don't generally like lists, but since mine will probably be different, I thought it might be more interesting (it leans more towards opera and ballet):
Jacques Offenbach
Adolphe Adam
Daniel Auber
Georges Bizet
Louise Farrenc
Louis Theodore Gouvy
Camille Saint-Saens
Maurice Ravel
Jules Massenet
Leo Delibes
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Sergeant Rock

Magnard
Milhaud
Saint-Saens
Satie
Tournemire
Cras
Debussy
Ravel
Varèse
Poulenc
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"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
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Wanderer

Charpentier
Lully
Alkan
Berlioz
Ravel
Debussy
Saint-Saëns
Messiaen
Poulenc
Offenbach

Cato

My list will be heavy with the organists:  0:)

Louis Vierne

Cesar Franck
(Belgian-French)  ;)

Alexandre Guilmant

Charles-Marie Widor

Ernst Chausson

Theodor Dubois

Francis Poulenc

Arthur Honnegger
  (Swiss-French)  0:)

Olivier Messiaen

Pierre Boulez
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springrite

#13
Alkan
Debussy
Faure
Machaut
Dutilleux
Boulez
Ravel
Francaix
Cras
Berlioz

PS: Kimi asked me to add Francaix. (He took the place I had originally given to Chausson)
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

SymphonicAddict

In alphabetical order:

Berlioz
Chausson
Cras
Debussy
Fauré
Magnard
Poulenc
Ravel
Ropartz
Saint-Saëns

The One

#15
Berlioz
Bizet
Couperin f
Charpentier
Desprez
Dufay
La Rue
Leonin
Machaut
Perotin
Saint-Saens
What were the French composers doing during the Classical Era?  ::)




Mahlerian

In alphabetical order, again:

Berlioz
Boulez
Debussy
Fauré
Josquin des Prez
Machaut
Messiaen
Rameau
Ravel
Varèse
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

North Star

Quote from: The One on January 25, 2018, 12:54:52 PM
What were the French composers doing during the Classical Era?  ::)
Worrying about shaving their necks?

Sticking to post-Renaissance composers..

Dutilleux
Ravel
Debussy
Fauré
Saint-Saëns
Alkan
Berlioz
Rameau
Fr. Couperin
L. Couperin
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André

Berlioz
Bizet
Koechlin
Milhaud
Pierné
Ravel
Ropartz
Schmitt
Tournemire
Vierne

Man, this is difficult...

Baron Scarpia

#19
Ravel
Debussy
Faure
Roussel
Messiaen
Milhaud
Poulenc
Saint-Saens
Magnard
d'Indy