Do you associate certain composers with certain musical forms?

[Mark]

I do, quite a lot.

Beethoven, for example, is synonymous for me with the symphony and the violin sonata, principally. Haydn is (again, for me) all about his beautiful string quartets. Mozart? Piano concerti, piano sonatas, symphonies and operas. Tchaikovsky screams ballet, Bach is king of the cantata and organ works, and Strauss is always associated first and foremost in my mind with tone poems - Sibelius, too, although I think of him most as a symphonist.

My point? There isn't one, necessarily. Except that all the composers I've named are known for a wide breadth of works in various forms, yet to me, they stand stand out mainly for certain ones. Many will doubtless think it impossible that I don't think of Beethoven as being inexorably linked to the piano sonata. I've no doubt he is/was ... just not for me.

What about you? When you think of any given composer, do you automatically attach a certain form (or forms) to their name?

[Daidalos]

Yes, I do. I associate primarily Mozart with operas, as even his instrumental works seem to have some element of "drama" in them. For Beethoven, it must be the symphony. I almost the feeling his piano sonatas and string quartets really are symphonies for solo piano and strings, respectively.

Then you have the other usual suspects: Schubert with the lieder, Bach with the cantata, and Chopin with the epic five-hour operas.

[marvinbrown]

Yes, I do. I associate primarily Mozart with operas, as even his instrumental works seem to have some element of "drama" in them. For Beethoven, it must be the symphony. I almost the feeling his piano sonatas and string quartets really are symphonies for solo piano and strings, respectively.

Then you have the other usual suspects: Schubert with the lieder, Bach with the cantata, and Chopin with the epic five-hour operas.

  Chopin wrote epic five-hour operas  ??  Take a good look at my avatar  and then look no further  .

  marvin

[BachQ]

Satie --> Oratorio

[Kullervo]

  Chopin wrote epic five-hour operas  ??  Take a good look at my avatar  and then look no further  .

  marvin

I'm almost certain it was meant to be a joke.

[longears]

Wagner--turgid snoozefests for the 19th Century's Dungeons & Dragons crowd

[Gurn Blanston]

Wagner--turgid snoozefests for the 19th Century's Dungeons & Dragons crowd

I agree, it isn't always a composer's "main" body of work that one associates his with. For me, Schumann is chamber music. I doubt there are many who would make THAT claim.   But that's all I had of his, the complete chamber music, during the formative years of my taste, so there it is.



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[Bonehelm]

Bruckner - Big loud dumb music

[Renfield]

Wagner--turgid snoozefests for the 19th Century's Dungeons & Dragons crowd

- LOL -

And seconded for Satie and his magnificent oratorios! Chopin's masterpieces surely must lie among his violin concerti, though.