Your Five (or so) Favorite Composers

[USMC1960s]

Not in any particular order. Trying to broaden my horizons a bit.

[Mirror Image]

Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, Sibelius, Villa-Lobos and Martinů. If I was allowed to expand it to 10, the others would be Dvořák, Shostakovich, Szymanowski, Fauré and Enescu.

[Sergeant Rock]

Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, Sibelius, Haydn

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki, Schnittke, Scelsi.

[bhodges]

Listening to some Schnittke right now (for his birthday), and thinking he might be on my list. Others: Bartók, Ligeti, Bruckner, Mahler.

--Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

My top 5 are:

Shostakovich
Nielsen
Sibelius
Beethoven
Dvorak

[Que]

Mozart...Vivaldi...Beethoven....Bach.. Tchaikovsky...Handel. .Too general a thread topic,  I guess. But I can't delete it.

You can change the opening post, and the (thread) title.

[Mirror Image]

My top 5 are:

Shostakovich
Nielsen
Sibelius
Beethoven
Dvorak

Sibelius and Nielsen...very interesting. My love for Nielsen came a bit later, but these two are certainly towering figures of Nordic music.

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams
Miaskovsky
Bax
Honegger
Tubin

[Florestan]

Chronologically

Haydn
Mozart
Schubert
Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff

[Artem]

Morton Feldman
Claude Debussy
Gustav Mahler
Toru Takemitsu
Maurice Ravel

[Gurn Blanston]

Haydn,
Mozart,
Beethoven,
Schubert,
Vivaldi,
The Russian Romantics from Glinka thru Shostakovich  (   Well, they are interchangeable to me )

[LKB]

Mahler
Beethoven
Schubert
Bruckner
J.S. Bach
Brahms

LKB

[T. D.]

Bach is definitely at the top for me. After that, the list constantly shifts.

[LKB]

Bach is definitely at the top for me. After that, the list constantly shifts.

My top five are pretty stable, but from no. 6 on l experience some shifting as well. Too many master composers for a short list...

Counting,

LKB

[Mirror Image]

Bach is definitely at the top for me. After that, the list constantly shifts.

Mine is almost in a constant flux as well, but if I were to be really honest about (and judging from my own listening habits over the past say 2-3 years), then my list would actually look something like this: Debussy, Ravel, Sibelius, Nielsen and Dvořák.

[Symphonic Addict]

Sibelius and Nielsen...very interesting. My love for Nielsen came a bit later, but these two are certainly towering figures of Nordic music.

I don't remember who came the first, but both are imprescindible in my top 5 or 10. I can't live without any of them!

[Uhor]

In this moment:

Bach
Debussy
Webern
Boulez
Feldman