Favorite Italian Composers Poll

[James]

What the heck, just for fun & following the other polls. Same as before, 5 votes permitted, and if I forgot to list your favorite Italian composer(s) just select "other" and please include the unlisted composer name(s) in your reply. Thanks.

[Don]

I chose Rossini, Verdi, Boccherini, D. Scarlatti and Busoni.  But even these composers are not often on my radar.  Never gave it much thought, but it does appear that I don't listen much to the music of Italian composers.

[prémont]

You have to add Frescobaldi, my all-time favoured Italian composer.

[Symphonien]

D. Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Respighi, Nono and Berio.

Although I didn't vote for him, I do feel you should add Bruno Maderna to that list.

[paulb]

Puccini and Vivaldi.
Are there any others to really consider?

[Benny]

Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Verdi, Puccini, Respighi. By the way, why all these names finishing with "i"?

[anasazi]

I couldn't locate Puccini, Menotti (Italian by birth) or Nino Rota in the list so I lumped all of them in 'other'. 

Hey, that means I got to vote seven times.   

[Haffner]

Puccini and Vivaldi.
Are there any others to really consider?

Verdi. He could have been all alone, in my humble opinion.

[SonicMan46]

Well, my selection was based mainly on the number of recordings that I own of these Italian composers, mostly of the Baroque period: Albinoni, Boccherini, Corelli,  Scarlatti D., & Vivaldi - Boccherini in the classical era of the choices; several others listed w/ multiple discs - below are other Italian composers that I own that were not seen on the list (doing this quickly, so may have missed a few, plus other posts might have added them) - 

Cartellieri, Antonio - born in Danzig, but father Italian? Love his wind works!
Carulli, Ferdinando - some great guitar compositions!
Geminiani, Francesco - excellent concerti grossi works!
Giuliani, Mauro - another guitar specialist!
Locatelli, Pietro - some great violin compositions!
Pachelbel, Johann - of course, the Canon, but he did write some other stuff!
Torelli, Giuseppe - only have some trumpet concertos!

[Symphonien]

By the way, why all these names finishing with "i"?

Because they're Italian... Most of the time they will finish with 'i', 'a', or 'o' it seems.

[Xenophanes]

What the heck, just for fun & following the other polls. Same as before, 5 votes permitted, and if I forgot to list your favorite Italian composer(s) just select "other" and please include the unlisted composer name(s) in your reply. Thanks.

G. Gabrieli
D. Scarlatti
G. Rossini
G. Verdi

*G. Puccini--how could you forget him?

[Gurn Blanston]

Hard cheese to be limited to only 5. In any case, I chose Vivaldi, Tartini, D. Scarlatti, Boccherini & Clementi. I would have been pleased to also take Corelli, and add Locatelli, among several others...



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[not edward]

Verdi, Busoni, Berio, Nono, Scelsi.

I should probably have dropped someone for D. Scarlatti: of those, probably Berio.

[RebLem]

Verdi, of course.

[val]

My choice is obvious: Palestrina, Monteverdi and Verdi. With Gesualdo not far.

[BachQ]

Cherubini, baby .........also: Busoni, Vivaldi, Boccherini

[springrite]

Scarlatti
Verdi
Busoni
Berio

Puccini

[Harry]

Tis not much, 5 composers, so this is not a reflection of which composer I find best. I could easily have added 30 extra.....

Claudio Monteverdi
Alessandro Scarlatti
Antonio Vivaldi
Boccherini
Repighi.

[springrite]

Tis not much, 5 composers, so this is not a reflection of which composer I find best. I could easily have added 30 extra.....

Most if not all before Respighi, too!

[ChamberNut]

Albinoni, Boccherini, Vivaldi, Paganini

my "other" vote was for the unlisted Paisiello.