Your Top 10 Spanish Composers

[Florestan]

I don't think this has ever been done, so have at it!

My list, sort of chronologically


Soler
Blasco de Nebra
Arriaga
Sarasate
Albeniz
Granados
de Falla
Turina
Guridi
Rodrigo
Mompou

I hesitated to include Domenico Scarlatti and Boccherini but if you feel like it, go ahead with them.

Yes, I know, they are 11 not 10, so feel free to break the rule! 

[Biffo]

My list is quite short -

Victoria
Morales
de Falla
Albeniz
Granados

I have a fair amount of Spanish music, most of it in the Early Music category and could produce a longish list of composers but I couldn't count most of them as 'favourites'. Jordi Savall is one of my favourite artists and responsible for a sizeable chunk of the Spanish repertoire I own.

[Florestan]

My list is quite short -

Victoria
Morales
de Falla
Albeniz
Granados

I have a fair amount of Spanish music, most of it in the Early Music category and could produce a longish list of composers but I couldn't count most of them as 'favourites'.

Well, it's not favourites in general, but Spanish favourites. 

Jordi Savall is one of my favourite artists and responsible for a sizeable chunk of the Spanish repertoire I own.

Same here.

[André]

I'll only list five. Four of them are Catalans.

Soler
Gerhard
Mompou
Falla
Montsalvage

[Florestan]

I'll only list five. Four of them are Catalans.

Soler
Gerhard
Mompou
Falla
Montsalvage

I said Spanish. If you think that Catalans are a nation apart, please start a new thread.

Politics, always politics, damn it! 

[Todd]

Cristobal de Morales
Isaac Albeniz
Federico Mompou
Enrique Granados
Antonio Soler
Leonardo Balada
Manuel de Falla
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Francisco Guerrero
Antonio de Cabezón

[Biffo]

Well, it's not favourites in general, but Spanish favourites. 

Same here.

It is a list of my Spanish favourites, if it was a list of favourites from all composers only Victoria would make into a top ten. In terms of Early Music, Spain comes second after England for me though it depends how you classify Monteverdi, another all-time favourite.

[André]

I said Spanish. If you think that Catalans are a nation apart, please start a new thread.

Politics, always politics, damn it! 

You named Mompou yourself. I simply noted in passing that they are catalans. I don't do politics.

[San Antone]

These are definitely favorites, but so far not listed:
Manuel Ponce
Fernando Sor
Gaspar Sanz
Dionysio Aguado
Augustin Barrios
Francisco Tarrega
John Duarte
Federico Moreno Torobba
Joaquin Turina
Sainz de la Maza

these I did not include, although favorites, they have been named by everyone.
Joaquín Rodrigo
Isaac Albéniz
Manuel de Falla
Enrique Granados

[Florestan]

You named Mompou yourself. I simply noted in passing that they are catalans. I don't do politics.

Yes. I named also Granados and Albeniz, both Catalan by birth, though not by "ethnicity". And I named them all in the context of "Spanish composers". AFAIC (and as far as those three were concerned) Catalunya is/was part and parcel of Spain.

Heck, I also named Arriaga and Guridi, yet didn't feel the need to mention they were Basque.

[Florestan]

Augustin Barrios

He was Paraguayan, not Spanish. 

[San Antone]

He was Paraguayan, not Spanish. 

I had no idea.  Hmm, then Soler.

[Florestan]

I had no idea. 

Agustin Barrios Mangore.

The former GMG member Spineur claimed he was THE greatest guitar composer ever, and I sort of took issues with it on behalf of Sor and Tarrega --- but after listening to his music I reconsidered my position. 

[San Antone]

Agustin Barrios Mangore.

The former GMG member Spineur claimed he was THE greatest guitar composer ever, and I sort of took issues with it on behalf of Sor and Tarrega --- but after listening to his music I reconsidered my position. 

He is definitely a great composer, no matter where he was from.   

[some guy]

Roberto Gerhard
Francisco López
Francisco Meirino
Tomás Marco
Agustí Charles
Joseba Torre
José Manrique
Manuel Hidalgo
Elena Mendoza
David del Puerto

If you had said "Hispanic," this would have been much easier. Or maybe not. Easier to get to ten. More difficult to limit it to ten. Aside from the first four on this list, my favorite Hispanic composers are mostly from Argentina and Mexico. One is from Chile.

[Mirror Image]

Manuel Ponce

Ponce was Mexican not Spanish.

[San Antone]

Ponce was Mexican not Spanish.

I give up.   

[Mirror Image]

I have a very short list:

Manuel de Falla
Roberto Gerhard
Isaac Albéniz
Federico Mompou

[Mirror Image]

I give up.   

Well, you just didn't know. No need to give up.

[Florestan]

He is definitely a great composer, no matter where he was from.   

Absolutely.