6 favourite v 6 greatest composers

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The new erato

#40
November 07, 2008, 11:38:26 AM
Quote from: G$ on November 07, 2008, 11:22:06 AM
hehe looks like you got that list from a book.


If there is no subjectivity in art, then there must be a way to measure greatness other than the thoughts of humans, in the same way we can tell water is made up of two hydrogens and one oxygen (which doesn't involve opinion). Hm, I wonder how you'd do that?....
bhodges has some good suggestions.

ChamberNut

#41
November 07, 2008, 01:19:04 PM
6 favorites

Beethoven
Brahms
Mozart
Bruckner
Schubert
Schumann

I cannot answer the 6 greatest, although certainly Bach would be on that list without question from probably anyone, including Karl  ;)

greg

#42
November 07, 2008, 01:25:25 PM
Quote from: erato on November 07, 2008, 11:38:26 AM
bhodges has some good suggestions.
Bruce is an alien?  ???

Sef

#43
November 07, 2008, 01:44:53 PM
Changes regularly, 6 Favorite:

Sibelius
Shostakovich
Atterburg
Pettersson
Mahler
Chavez

Changes very slowly and only by popular conensus, 6 greatest:

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Mozart
Haydn
Schubert/Wagner - probably one or the other.

6 dislike

Bach
Telemann
Souza (OMG - not EVERY school band concert)
Handel
Brian (sorry never got over the Gothic 2 hours)
Wagner (can take the overtures, but really....)

"Do you think that I could have composed what I have composed, do you think that one can write a single note with life in it if one sits there and pities oneself?"

J.Z. Herrenberg

#44
November 07, 2008, 01:58:55 PM
Quote from: Sef on November 07, 2008, 01:44:53 PM
Brian (sorry never got over the Gothic 2 hours)

The Gothic isn't representative, Sef. Have you ever tried a purely orchestral symphony by Brian? They're often short (but not quite sweet...)
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Sef

#45
November 07, 2008, 02:11:12 PM
Quote from: Jezetha on November 07, 2008, 01:58:55 PM
The Gothic isn't representative, Sef. Have you ever tried a purely orchestral symphony by Brian? They're often short (but not quite sweet...)
Which would you recommend?
"Do you think that I could have composed what I have composed, do you think that one can write a single note with life in it if one sits there and pities oneself?"

J.Z. Herrenberg

#46
November 07, 2008, 02:15:30 PM
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Sef

#47
November 07, 2008, 02:20:22 PM
Quote from: Jezetha on November 07, 2008, 02:15:30 PM
Why not try these two...:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0jf2yvnm2tj/Brian 8.mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wijgqyozmjm/Brian Symphony No. 6 LPO Myer Fredman.mp3
Thanks - saw these on the Brian thread a week ago, but didn't want a repeat performance of my Gothic experience! I'll take your word for it and give it a try! Wish me luck.
"Do you think that I could have composed what I have composed, do you think that one can write a single note with life in it if one sits there and pities oneself?"

J.Z. Herrenberg

#48
November 07, 2008, 02:22:09 PM
Quote from: Sef on November 07, 2008, 02:20:22 PM
Thanks - saw these on the Brian thread a week ago, but didn't want a repeat performance of my Gothic experience! I'll take your word for it and give it a try! Wish me luck.

You'll survive!  :)
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Kullervo

#49
November 07, 2008, 02:36:13 PM
Favorites
Sibelius               
Nørgård           
Honegger         
Nielsen (a little early, maybe, but it's honest)             
Delius               
Fauré

Greatest
Bach
Beethoven
Chopin
Wagner
Brahms
Debussy

Don't care for
Messiaen
Verdi
Puccini
Rachmaninoff
Glass
Grofé

Gurn Blanston

#50
November 07, 2008, 04:17:23 PM
OK, although my preferences are pretty widely known by now! :)

6 Greatest            6 Favorite
Bach                    Mozart               
Mozart                 Beethoven
Beethoven            Haydn
Haydn                  Schubert
Schubert              Brahms/Dvorak (tie at #5!)
Brahms                 Vivaldi

So, my subjective greatest and my subjective favorite list are pretty much the same, with the odd exception that I would rather listen to Everyman Vivaldi than Uberman Bach. And Dvorak is simply to good to me to leave off any list. :)


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hornteacher

#51
November 07, 2008, 07:01:45 PM
Okay I'll play along.

6 Greatest (my opinion)
Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
Wagner
Brahms
Haydn

6 Favorite (in order)
Beethoven
Dvorak
Mozart
Copland
Mendelssohn
Brahms

6 I don't really get into
J Strauss II
Wagner
Debussy
Ives
Hindemith
Telemann

some guy

#52
November 07, 2008, 09:47:49 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on November 07, 2008, 10:39:14 AM
As for disliked composers:

Mozart (although I respect the views of those who love his music)
Stockhausen (not that I know much of his music)

Not one much for superlatives, but I'd nominate these as two of the more revealing statements I've seen on these boards. (And there have been thousands.)

Grazioso

#53
November 08, 2008, 03:59:44 AM Last Edit: November 08, 2008, 04:01:24 AM by Grazioso
6 Greatest:

Beethoven
Debussy
Haydn
Mahler
Mozart
Wagner

6 Favorite atm (i.e., what I've been listening to recently and enjoying a lot) :

Atterberg
Bernstein
Dvorak
Elgar
Norgard
Toch

6 Favorite overall (ones I was/am fondest of for the longest periods) :

Beethoven
Bruckner
Handel
Mahler
Mozart
Wagner
(Honorable mentions for Bax and Sibelius)

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

vandermolen

#54
November 08, 2008, 01:10:49 PM Last Edit: November 08, 2008, 02:35:45 PM by vandermolen
Thanks for responses. I must listen to my Norgard CDs again (symphs 2 and 3). Honegger and Pettersson are also favourites of mine. I never listen to Verdi or Johan Strauss (apart from The Blue Danube in the context of 2001 A Space Odyssey)
I can't stand the New Year's Day concert in Vienna.
"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).

J.Z. Herrenberg

#55
November 08, 2008, 01:59:34 PM
You're positively piling up the 'revealing statements', Jeffrey.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

vandermolen

#56
November 08, 2008, 03:07:02 PM
Quote from: Jezetha on November 08, 2008, 01:59:34 PM
You're positively piling up the 'revealing statements', Jeffrey.

I don't like Gottschalk either  ;D
"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).

Symphonien

#57
November 08, 2008, 03:26:21 PM
Favourites

Mahler
Sibelius
Schnittke
Ligeti
Prokofiev
Webern

Greatest

Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms
Debussy
Stravinsky

Sergeant Rock

#58
November 10, 2008, 05:41:12 AM
Greatest: beats me

Favorites: Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, Sibelius, Beethoven, Brian


Sarge
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"

mozartsneighbor

#59
November 10, 2008, 06:02:21 AM
I am astounded at how badly Schubert is doing in both the favorite and greatest composers categories.
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