Your Favorite Composer, Ever, Period!

[André]

Verdi

[Brahmsian]

Verdi

This was a shock to me.  I thought it would be 100% Bruckner.

[Christo]

Vaughan Williams

+1 

[André]

This was a shock to me.  I thought it would be 100% Bruckner.

That was my opinion on December 21, 2018 at 11:21:19 am. 

[Florestan]

That was my opinion on December 21, 2018 at 11:21:19 am. 

Yeah but five minutes after that you were on your way to the desert island, complete works of Verdi as luggage. I said it clearly: no second thoughts, no alternate choices --- one and only one. So you're stuck with Verdi for life, I'm afraid, your opinion on December 27, 2018 at 13:45:09 notwithstanding. 

[Ken B]

Yeah but five minutes after that you were on your way to the desert island, complete works of Verdi as luggage. I said it clearly: no second thoughts, no alternate choices --- one and only one. So you're stuck with Verdi for life, I'm afraid

Inhuman.

[André]

I'm perfectly fine with that ! 

[schnittkease]

Schnittke... 

[DaveF]

There's only one William Byrd.

[Ken B]

There's only one William Byrd.

So they Tallis.

[Florestan]

So they Tallis.

Excellent one. 

This thread is silly, but I started it in reaction to such threads as "Your Top X Composers / Symphonies / Concertos / Trombone Sextets / Whatnot" where X is any number between 3 and 25. Actually I fully subscribe to Bartok's dictum that competitions are for horses, not for artists. If I were deported to a desert island, I'd take with me my whole musical and literary library.

[Todd]

Beethoven.  Less than a second to decide.

[some guy]

No one.

I'm assuming I go there with my memory intact.

[Gorio1968]

J.S. Bach

[kyjo]

Verdi

We can't be friends anymore, André...

[André]

We all have our little secrets. But don't worry. I have a B list and even a C list. 

[Ken B]

We all have our little secrets. But don't worry. I have a B list and even a C list. 

If Andrei allows you a B island or a C island you'll be fine.

[springrite]

Verdi

Joe Green should be the name of a football great, NOT of a composer 

[kyjo]

We all have our little secrets. But don't worry. I have a B list and even a C list. 

Don't we all! In all seriousness, I should give ol' Giuseppe another chance. I actually do really like his epic Te deum from the Quattro pezzi sacri, which I've had the opportunity to perform. I should try to get into his operas, but I must say we listened to a bit of Aida in my music history class at one point and I was soon searching for the nearest emergency exit! 

[kyjo]

I hesitated between Schubert and Mozart but eventually the operas, the concertos and the violin sonatas made the difference.

Yeah, if only Schubert had composed some concerti...