Your top 11 favorite German and Austrian composers

[SymphonicAddict]

There was not a poll about composers from these nationalities. I guess there will be some obvious choices from many of you on this poll, but it doesn't matter. On the top, please mention the composer you consider your overall favorite in each nationality. Mine are:


German:

1. Johannes Brahms

Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Strauss
Paul Hindemith
Richard Wagner
Johann Sebastian Bach
Max Reger
Felix Mendelssohn
Carl Maria von Weber
Walter Braunfels
Georg Friederich Händel


Austrian

1. Franz Schubert

Gustav Mahler
Anton Bruckner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joseph Marx
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Franz Schmidt
Alexander Zemlinsky
Franz Schreker
Joseph Haydn
Siegmund von Hausegger

[André]

Hmmm. Not easy to figure out some of them. Beethoven left Germany at 22 and never came back, same with Brahms who moved to Vienna at 29 and spent most of his career there. I had to google Krenek, Wellesz and Toch to check their birthplaces and whereabouts...

Anyhow, just for fun:

Schütz
Bach
Beethoven
Schumann
Wagner
Brahms
R. Strauss
Reger
Braunfels
Hindemith
Raphael


Biber
Haydn
Mozart
Schubert
J. Strauss
Bruckner
Mahler
Berg
Schönberg
Wellesz
Toch

[Karl Henning]

There was not a poll about composers from these nationalities. I guess there will be some obvious choices from many of you on this poll, but it doesn't matter. On the top, please mention the composer you consider your overall favorite in each nationality. Mine are:

Great idea!


German:

1. Johann Sebastian Bach

Ludwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Paul Hindemith
Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Felix Mendelssohn
Ernst Toch



Austrian

1. Joseph Haydn

Gustav Mahler
Anton Bruckner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Alexander Zemlinsky
Franz Schreker
Arnold Schoenberg
Franz Schubert

[Jo498]

German:

Beethoven
Bach
Brahms
Schumann
Handel
Mendelssohn
Wagner
Telemann
C.M. v. Weber
Schütz
CPE Bach


Austrian:

J. Haydn
W.A. Mozart
Schubert
Mahler
Bruckner
Berg
Joh. Strauss jun.
Jos. Strauss
Zemlinsky
Biber
Schoenberg

[Florestan]

Austrian
 
Mozart & Schubert ex aequo

Joseph Haydn
Johann Strauss Sr.
Johann Strauss Jr.
Joseph Strauss
Joseph Lanner
Gustav Mahler

German

Schumann

Brahms
Mendelssohn
Carl Maria von Weber
CPE Bach
JC Bach
Beethoven
JS Bach
Carl Loewe

[SymphonicAddict]

Toch, Wellesz, Hartmann and Johann Strauss II are other superb choices I could have taken too! I should like Schumann, but he hasn't click on me, at least not yet.