Your Top 5 Composers

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Florestan

March 22, 2023, 02:42:30 PM
My list as of today

Mozart
Rossini
Bellini
Verdi
Massenet

Your turn.
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. — Claude Debussy

San Antone

#1
March 22, 2023, 02:50:09 PM
Machaut
Bach
Carter
Cage
Shostakovich

Lisztianwagner

#2
March 22, 2023, 02:54:33 PM
Wagner
Mahler
Liszt
Beethoven
Rachmaninov
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

Karl Henning

#3
March 22, 2023, 02:59:32 PM
Stravinsky
Haydn
Chopin
JSB

(The moment I nominate a fifth, I'll think of a sixth whom I'll upbraid myself for having forgotten.)
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

foxandpeng

#4
March 22, 2023, 03:04:33 PM
Vasks
Tabakov
Pettersson
RVW
DSCH

Easy enough choice today 👍
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Brahmsian

#5
March 22, 2023, 03:24:39 PM
Shostakovich
Bruckner
Dvořák
Tchaikovsky
Sibelius

vers la flamme

#6
March 22, 2023, 05:36:42 PM
Amazing lists, gentlemen. Let me give it a shot...

Johannes Brahms
Gustav Mahler
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Maurice Ravel

Kind of a white-bread list, I realize, but I couldn't leave any of them out. Then, of course, there's about fifty other composers who might edge out one of them on a good day.

DavidW

#7
March 23, 2023, 07:00:28 AM
Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms

For all time, but for current listening:
Bach
Schubert
Bruckner
Mahler
Shostakovich

DavidW

#8
March 23, 2023, 07:03:03 AM
Okay so I have all time, and I have recently but if I expand it to past few months (i.e. the intermediate) then I have

Schubert
Bruckner
Wagner
Sibelius
Shostakovich

Brahmsian

#9
March 23, 2023, 07:03:50 AM
Quote from: OrchestralNut on March 22, 2023, 03:24:39 PMShostakovich
Bruckner
Dvořák
Tchaikovsky
Sibelius

I'll follow David's lead.  Above is "all-time", or overall.

Top 5 current listening:

Bacewicz
*Classical guitar
Falla
*Ballet music
Shostakovich

*A mishmash of composers.  :D

DavidW

#10
March 23, 2023, 07:06:27 AM
Quote from: OrchestralNut on March 23, 2023, 07:03:50 AMI'll follow David's lead. 

And I was following Florestan's lead! ;D

Sergeant Rock

#11
May 12, 2023, 04:21:27 AM
Wagner
Mahler
Bruckner
Sibelius
Haydn
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Peter Power Pop

#12
May 12, 2023, 11:01:52 PM
1. Rameau
2. Ravel
3. Copland
4. Debussy
5. Tchaikovsky

vandermolen

#13
May 12, 2023, 11:07:31 PM
Quote from: foxandpeng on March 22, 2023, 03:04:33 PMVasks
Tabakov
Pettersson
RVW
DSCH

Easy enough choice today 👍
Must listen to more Tabakov!
"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).

vandermolen

#14
May 12, 2023, 11:09:56 PM
Vaughan Williams
Miaskovsky
Shostakovich
Copland
Bax
"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).

San Antone

#15
May 13, 2023, 03:05:48 AM
Not ranked

Boulez
Carter
Cage
Schoenberg
Machaut

Brian

#16
May 13, 2023, 07:20:42 AM
Quote from: Peter Power Pop on May 12, 2023, 11:01:52 PM1. Rameau
2. Ravel
3. Copland
4. Debussy
5. Tchaikovsky
Question! Given this ranking, does it mean that the Vikingur Olafsson album combining Debussy and Rameau is basically heaven for you? Or do you have thoughts on how those composers go together?

Brian

#17
May 13, 2023, 07:26:25 AM
Beethoven
Dvorak
Haydn
Janacek
Chopin

foxandpeng

#18
May 13, 2023, 08:28:59 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on May 12, 2023, 11:07:31 PMMust listen to more Tabakov!

Yes! Moar Tabakov!!

My choices remain the same, I think. At least for now.

Vasks
Tabakov
Pettersson
RVW
DSCH
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Peter Power Pop

#19
May 13, 2023, 03:27:16 PM Last Edit: May 13, 2023, 03:40:15 PM by Peter Power Pop
Quote from: Brian on May 13, 2023, 07:20:42 AMQuestion! Given this ranking, does it mean that the Vikingur Olafsson album combining Debussy and Rameau is basically heaven for you? Or do you have thoughts on how those composers go together?

I'm not a huge fan of Rameau's keyboard music. But Debussy's on the other hand... [Chef's kiss].

I don't think of Rameau and Debussy as composers that should ever be put together on a program. There's nothing stylistically to link the two, so to have a disc with both of them is weird to me.

Having typed that, I'll have a listen to Ólafsson's album.

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