Composers other people love

Started by Uhor, June 19, 2022, 03:36:09 PM

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Uhor

This thread is about the composers you actively dislike but other people very much like.

Here is some of mine in no particular order:

Higdon
Delius
Brian
Sorabji
Messiaen
Dittersdorf
Stockhausen
Lachenmann
Shostakovich
Schnittke
Pärt
Gorecki

Karl Henning

I don't suppose there are any composers I actively dislike ... so I abstain.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mirror Image

I don't agree with wholly negative tone of this thread. I mean who cares if I dislike a composer's music and someone else loves them? I'm more concerned about composers that I do love.

71 dB

#3
I don't actively dislike. I just don't care much about many composers while actively liking my favorites.

However, I do dislike many common "opinions" among some people who are into classical music, such as:

- "Beethoven is above criticism, because he is Beethoven!"

- "Dittersdorf is nothing compared to Haydn."

- "Nothing interesting happened in Germanic music between Schütz and J. S. Bach."


Quote from: Uhor on June 19, 2022, 03:36:09 PM
This thread is about the composers you actively dislike but other people very much like.

Here is some of mine in no particular order:

Higdon
Delius
Brian
Sorabji
Messiaen
Dittersdorf
Stockhausen
Lachenmann
Shostakovich
Schnittke
Pärt
Gorecki

Perhaps very few people "very much like" all of these composers. How many Lachenmann or Sorabji fans do we have on this board? I don't think I have ever heard those name before.  ??? Sorabji I may have seen, but I have zero knowledge of his (her?) music. I very much like Dittersdorf and Pärt on that list Delius and some Shostakovich is nice too.  :) The little Messiaen and Schnittke I have heard aren't for me and Stockhausen I refuse to explore because his music is so expensive and "exclusive". Higdon, Brian, Sorabji, Lachenmann and Gorecki I haven't explored. Too much music in the World for one lifetime!  :P
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71 dB

Quote from: Mirror Image on June 19, 2022, 06:44:19 PM
I don't agree with wholly negative tone of this thread. I mean who cares if I dislike a composer's music and someone else loves them? I'm more concerned about composers that I do love.

Same here!  0:) In the past I was obsessed about people liking the same things I do, but I believe I am wiser and more matured now and I just don't care. You like A, B and C and I like X, Y and Z? Okay, cool.  ;D

Nowadays I am more obsessed about how people think. Are people thinking critically and independently, or are they being led to have certain beliefs? More important than what your opinions are is how did you arrive to them?
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MusicTurner

#5
Quote from: Uhor on June 19, 2022, 03:36:09 PM
This thread is about the composers you actively dislike but other people very much like.

Here is some of mine in no particular order:

Higdon
Delius
Brian
Sorabji
Messiaen
Dittersdorf
Stockhausen
Lachenmann
Shostakovich
Schnittke
Pärt
Gorecki

Seems to be a rather varied list of personal idiosyncracies, and without a single, re-occurring theme ...

In most cases, exploring composers a bit in depth has often made me revise the too simplified idea I had about them previously, besides my taste often changing as time goes by. Concerning Messiaen and Part, there's obviously a big difference between their early and later works, for example. Delius, Gorecki and Schnittke have huge variation too, and even Dittersdorf (symphonies), Lachenmann, and Stockhausen have a lot of that as well.

vandermolen

I don't enjoy the music of Liszt very much!
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

Quote from: vandermolen on June 20, 2022, 09:51:41 AM
I don't enjoy the music of Liszt very much!

I appreciate the sober, measured remark, which is entirely in character!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

DizzyD

There are some composers that I don't "dislike" but whose work just doesn't resonate with me as it seems to do with other people. For me it's Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Delius. Maybe some day.

Mirror Image

#9
Quote from: 71 dB on June 19, 2022, 10:01:16 PM
Same here!  0:) In the past I was obsessed about people liking the same things I do, but I believe I am wiser and more matured now and I just don't care. You like A, B and C and I like X, Y and Z? Okay, cool.  ;D

Nowadays I am more obsessed about how people think. Are people thinking critically and independently, or are they being led to have certain beliefs? More important than what your opinions are is how did you arrive to them?

Yes, indeed. If you dislike like a composer that I love, who cares. Time should spend listening to music rather worrying about being hip or being a part of some kind of popularity contest.

DavidW

Actively dislike??  Why?  If I didn't like something I wouldn't bother with their music.  I wouldn't keep listening building up animosity.

DizzyD

Yeah I can't say there are any composers I "actively dislike".

Lisztianwagner

Ditto, I can't say there are composers I actively dislike either, instead I would say there are some composers whose music I'm not attracted by, for example Verdi, Rossini or Donizetti. Also, I have no problem if someone doesn't like the composers I love; that's a pity, but de gustibus.
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

71 dB

Quote from: vandermolen on June 20, 2022, 09:51:41 AM
I don't enjoy the music of Liszt very much!

It took me a long time to get into Liszt, but to be fair, for long I didn't even try.  :P
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Florestan

What does "actively disliking a composer" mean, I wonder?
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

springrite

The only one I can think of is, maybe Bloch. But really, I hardly ever actively dislike any composer's music. There have been many instances where I dislike one composer's music for decades and, one day, suddenly begin to like them. Bruckner is a fine example. So if I do not like a composer's music, it probably has more to do with myself than the composer's music itself. If it's not to my liking, I stay away for a while, or, forever. But you never know.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

pjme

"actively disliking a composer":

his/her music makes one nervous, neurotic, edgy, angry, irritated, exasperated, irate, vexed, bored, sick.




Florestan

Quote from: pjme on June 21, 2022, 01:26:54 AM
"actively disliking a composer":

his/her music makes one nervous, neurotic, edgy, angry, irritated, exasperated, irate, vexed, bored, sick.

I don't know. All that seems to me rather like *passive* reactions to the music --- and in my case, for instance, it can happen only once or twice, after which I stop listening to that composer's music altogether and never look back.

No, I think "actively" disliking a composer means starting threads about them and losing no opportunity to bash them --- which is absurd. One should focus on music one likes and ignore music one dislikes.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Karl Henning

Quote from: springrite on June 21, 2022, 01:12:26 AM
The only one I can think of is, maybe Bloch. But really, I hardly ever actively dislike any composer's music. There have been many instances where I dislike one composer's music for decades and, one day, suddenly begin to like them. Bruckner is a fine example. So if I do not like a composer's music, it probably has more to do with myself than the composer's music itself. If it's not to my liking, I stay away for a while, or, forever. But you never know.

Funny to think it now, but at first the symphonies of both Nielsen and Vaughan Williams left me cold. Musical dislike is not forever.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot