6 favourite v 6 greatest composers

[DavidW]

Disagree on ossification, like Andre it would be foolhardy to nominate modern composers yet, we still don't know how they ultimately stand.  I don't know why you think the old masters need to be replaced Ernie, they wouldn't be great if they can so quickly be removed from the list now would they?

[ChamberNut]

Holding you to it dude, holding you to it.

No! 

Well, I have made a few discoveries this year.  The WTC, Solo Violin Sonatas/Partitas, Violin Concertos and some cantatas.

[DavidW]

No! 

Well, I have made a few discoveries this year.  The WTC, Solo Violin Sonatas/Partitas, Violin Concertos and some cantatas.

Nice!

[karlhenning]

I'm enjoying rodent Friday.

[ChamberNut]

I'm enjoying rodent Friday.

Where's yours?

[karlhenning]

Hey, I've moused up!

[ChamberNut]

Hey, I've moused up!

That's better! 

[Franco]

6 favorite:
Bach
Haydn
Beethoven
Verdi
Stravinsky
Carter


6 greatest (imo):
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms
Stravinsky
TBA

[IlikeMahler]

My favorite composers are

Bach
Mahler
Chopin
Rachmaninoff
Handel
Mussorgsky

[MN Dave]

Have I done this yet?

Ah, well. I'll do it anyway.

Greatest:

Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Wagner
Brahms
Schubert

Faves:

Chopin
Bach
Schubert
Beethoven
Haydn
Mozart

Bubbling under...

Schumann
Brahms

Actually, my faves would look more like this:

First Tier: Chopin, Bach, Schubert, Beethoven
Second Tier: Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms.

Ah, that feels much better.

Third Tier: Sibelius, Shostakovich, Purcell, Dvorak

[schweitzeralan]

Which are your six favourite composers and your six greatest composers? Do they overlap? Daft idea I know but I am bored at work

My list:

Favourites                              Greatest

Vaughan Williams                   Bruckner
Miaskovsky                            Sibelius   
Tubin                                    Mahler
Bax                                       Beethoven
Moeran                                  Shostakovich
Copland                                 Bach

Greatest (my opinion): Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Mahler, Sibelius, Shostakovich

Favorites: Debussy, Sibelius, Ravel, Scriabin, Martinu, Bax

[Christo]

Six favourites (who happen to be The Greatest, too, no big surprise there):

Bach (père)
Dvořák
Vaughan Williams
Holmboe
Tubin
Cooke (Arnold) (a bit mere recognition would be helpful indeed)

Six great composers (who happen to be favourites as well, no big surprise there):

Bach (père)
Dvořák
Vaughan Williams
Holmboe
Tubin
Cooke

[drogulus]

Disagree on ossification, like Andre it would be foolhardy to nominate modern composers yet, we still don't know how they ultimately stand.  I don't know why you think the old masters need to be replaced Ernie, they wouldn't be great if they can so quickly be removed from the list now would they?

     I've even said that myself about recent music, but I wonder if I'm just being ossifical. And I don't think any composers need to be replaced, I think it's a liitle strange that they aren't. Something doesn't feel right about the towering, suffocating presence of the Old Masters. There should be more fashion and less reverence. It shows a lack of confidence. Even though much of the avant garde is flavorless for me I'm on their side in this. Unfortunately they followed the "scientific socialist" model of authoritarian aesthetics. The music ought to change, not according to a plan, but because everyone ought to want it to. If you aren't bored by Beethoven you're not trying hard enough. 

[Valentin]

Favourites*            Greatest

Chopin                   Bach
Liszt                      Beethoven
Alkan                     Mozart
Sorabji                   Bruckner
Scriabin                  Schubert
Hummel                  Haydn

After a bottle of wine or two I'm liable to assert that the first list is also the second list.

*subject to occasional fluctuation

[mahler10th]

6 Current Favourites: 
Rautavaara, Mahler, Rangstrom, Sibelius, Martinu, Janacek

6 Top Composers:
Beethoven, Sibelius, Bruckner, Dvorak, Bach, Mahler

6 I can't be bothered with...
Brahms, Phlilp Glass, John Cage, Messiaen (currently under re-development), Wagner, The Spice Girls

[vandermolen]

6 Current Favourites: 
Rautavaara, Mahler, Rangstrom, Sibelius, Martinu, Janacek

6 Top Composers:
Beethoven, Sibelius, Bruckner, Dvorak, Bach, Mahler

6 I can't be bothered with...
Brahms, Phlilp Glass, John Cage, Messiaen (currently under re-development), Wagner, The Spice Girls

Actually I quite like The Spice Girls ('Posh' is my favourite)