Your Favorite Composer, Ever, Period!

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

J.S. Bach

[shirime]

Boulez. It took me longer to scroll down to Quick Reply than it took to decide!

[Biffo]

Hector Berlioz

[NikF]

Brahms is the first name that comes to mind. But I don't know for sure. And while I always find if interesting to learn the opinion and taste(s) of informed individuals distilled down to favourite/top ten/desert island kinds of lists, I'm not sure if my own favours are so faithful. I mean, Shostakovich (in Russia, travel midwinter bundled in hats and scarves  via a trolley bus to an almost austerity hallmarked concert hall and hear the Shosty 10) busts my chops with both the honesty and absurdity of the human condition. Meanwhile, Debussy does a fine job of reminding me how unequipped I am to understand music beyond  the facile.

tl;dr: probably Brahms.

[Draško]

Mozart

[Papy Oli]

Mahler

[Maestro267]

First 10 favourite composers, then 25, now just 1? OK then.

My desert-island composer is Tchaikovsky.

Maybe we can come to some sort of consensus between the three threads...

[Ken B]

Boulez. It took me longer to scroll down to Quick Reply than it took to decide!

Yeah, I think for most of us it takes nanoseconds. Picking a second choice might be hard though!

[kyjo]

If I had a gun pointed to my head, then Sibelius I suppose.

[San Antone]

Yeah, I think for most of us it takes nanoseconds. Picking a second choice might be hard though!

For me it was a toss up between Debussy and Brahms.  I chose Debussy, but Brahms is a close second and they alternate on a regular basis.

[flyingdutchman]

Tchaikovsky, without question.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Beethoven,

I'd regret Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Sibelius, Mahler, Debussy, Stravinsky

[TheGSMoeller]

Richard Strauss.

[Brahmsian]

Richard Strauss.

That was one of my guesses.  My other guess was Glass.

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams

[shirime]

Yeah, I think for most of us it takes nanoseconds. Picking a second choice might be hard though!

Not at all. It's Wagner.

[TheGSMoeller]

That was one of my guesses.  My other guess was Glass.

Glass is so close! Top 3 for sure, maybe even top 2 if I'm listening to Songs from Liquid Days!

[GioCar]

Wagner.

[amw]

Schubert would be my first pick but I'd miss Beethoven.

[Florestan]

Schubert would be my first pick but I'd miss Beethoven.

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