My list:
1. Debussy
2. Mahler
3. Strauss
4. Sibelius
5. Bartók
6. Ravel
7. Stravinsky
8. Martinů
9. Berlioz
10. Shostakovich
11. Vaughan Williams
12. Saint-Saëns
13. Schoenberg
14. Berg
15. Villa-Lobos
16. Dvořák
17. Tchaikovsky
18. Janáček
19. Prokofiev
20. Britten
21. Rachmaninov
22. Schnittke
23. Szymanowski
24. Ives
25. Weinberg
26. Bruckner
27. Respighi
28. (K. A.) Hartmann
29. Copland
30. Koechlin
31. Takemitsu
32. Gubaidulina
33. Penderecki
34. Bernstein
35. Korngold
36. Liszt
37. Walton
38. Kodály
39. Ligeti
40. Scriabin
41. Hindemith
42. Glazunov
43. Poulenc
44. Honegger
45. Tippett
46. Roussel
47. Barber
48. Lutosławski
49. Enescu
50. Yun
51. Nielsen
52. Milhaud
53. Malipiero
54. Langgaard
55. Pettersson
56. Silvestrov
57. Adams, J.
58. Elgar
59. Holst
60. Smetana
61. Wagner
62. Zemlinsky
63. Ginastera
64. Grieg
65. Schuman, W.
66. Sculthorpe
67. Tubin
68. Boulez
69. Henze
70. Rimsky-Korsakov
71. Mussorgsky
72. Gershwin
73. Schulhoff
74. Chávez
75. Suk
76. Fauré
77. Bacewicz
78. Casella
79. Khachaturian
80. Diamond
81. Tansman
82. Bloch
83. Ifukube
84. Kabalevsky
85. Berio
86. Delius
87. Schmidt
88. Pärt
89. Vasks
90. Novák
91. Harrison
92. Górecki
93. Braunfels
94. Dallapiccola
95. Varèse
96. Revueltas
97. Scelsi
98. Duruflé
99. Hahn
100. Shchedrin
Where's Miaskovsky and Bax? ;D
Quote from: vandermolen on June 14, 2022, 02:06:59 AM
Where's Miaskovsky and Bax? ;D
On
your list! ;D
If I took seriously the favorite composers lists of others, I would be traumatized by the fact that Elgar doesn't beat even John Adams! ??? Also, how can someone care about baroque so little that not even J. S. Bach makes it on the top 100 list? ???
Well, luckily I just don't care and I know people have different brains.
Let's see those lists guys! ;)
Poju, a "Top 100" list is superfluous. Honestly, after my "Top 20", it is increasingly difficult to put the composers in any kind of order. Anyway, this is just for fun and not meant to be taken as the gospel truth.
Just waiting for someone to come in and post a 100, and then come back and post another, second list of 100 ;D ;D
Quote from: Brian on June 14, 2022, 06:42:45 AM
Just waiting for someone to come in and post a 100, and then come back and post another, second list of 100 ;D ;D
Hah! :P
Haha! I somehow knew this was coming! ;D I'll work on my list and post it today... I predict about a 70% overlap with John's. ;D
Quote from: classicalgeek on June 14, 2022, 06:54:09 AM
Haha! I somehow knew this was coming! ;D I'll work on my list and post it today... I predict about a 70% overlap with John's. ;D
;D
My top 50:
1. Mahler
2. Beethoven
3. Dvorak
4. Brahms
5. Shostakovich
6. Chopin
7. Rachmaninov
8. Stravinsky
9. Sibelius
10. Ravel
11. Poulenc
12. Martinu
13. Schubert
14. Haydn
15. Koechlin
16. Bartok
17. Bruckner
18. Villa-Lobos
19. Barber
20. Mendelssohn
21. Bernstein
22. Janacek
23. Dutilleux
24. Saint-Saens
25. Hindemith
26. Berg
27. Messiaen
28. Vaughan Williams
29. Arnold
30. Debussy
31. Respighi
32. Prokofiev
33. Roussel
34. Copland
35. Strauss (Richard)
36. Lloyd
37. Bach (J.S.)
38. Lutoslawski
39. Atterberg
40. Britten
41. Korngold
42. Nielsen*
43. Tchaikovsky
44. Milhaud
45. Elgar
46. Bax
47. Franck
48. Englund
49. Varese
50. Glazunov
*I realized in posting my 26-50 list that I forgot entirely about Carl Nielsen! So I plugged him in where I thought he should go and adjusted accordingly.
So here are 51-100. I had about 30 composers who "missed the cut" whom I very much enjoy, so this list is pretty flexible:
51. Faure
52. Walton
53. Ives
54. Guarnieri
55. Bliss
56. Telemann
57. Scriabin
58. Bloch
59. Alfven
60. Mozart
61. Schoenberg
62. Gershwin
63. Bacewicz
64. Alkan
65. Rimsky-Korsakov
66. Bach (C.P.E.)
67. Enescu
68. Genzmer
69. Berlioz
70. Berwald
71. Liebermann
72. Szymanowski
73. Liszt
74. Joplin
75. Novak
76. Higdon
77. Lajtha
78. Takemitsu
79. Albeniz
80. Vivaldi
81. Rubbra
82. Medtner
83. Ifukube
84. Francaix
85. Chabrier
86. Suk
87. Rautavaara
88. Delius
89. Stenhammar
90. Boccherini
91. Webern
92. Antheil
93. Casella
94. Grieg
95. Schmitt (Florent)
96. Holbrooke
97. Ginastera
98. Falla
99. Bridge
100. Honegger
EDIT: Faure was on the list twice! Oops.
Nice list, James!
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 14, 2022, 08:31:00 AM
Nice list, James!
I'm counting 57 entries in common with your list! ;D Of course I'm not familiar with the work of all the composers on your list, and I'm sure as I broaden my listening, my own list will fluctuate.
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 14, 2022, 06:23:07 AM
Let's see those lists guys! ;)
Poju, a "Top 100" list is superfluous. Honestly, after my "Top 20", it is increasingly difficult to put the composers in any kind of order. Anyway, this is just for fun and not meant to be taken as the gospel truth.
First 20 pretty much in correct order. The rest isn't (too much work, sorry).
Elgar
J. S. Bach
C. P. E. Bach
Weinberg
Handel
Buxtehude
Bruhns
Rameau
A. Scarlatti
Mozart
J. Haydn
Beethoven
Fauré
Saint-Saëns
Fasch
Graupner
Dittersdorf
Hasse
Boccherini
S. I. Taneyev
-----------------------20---------------
M.-A. Charpentier
Bartók
Berlioz
Brahms
Clérambault
Corelli
Englund
Granados
Kuhnau
Heinichen
Liszt
Locatelli
Marais
Mendelssohn
Nielsen
Prokofiev
Pärt
F. Couperin
Schubert
Schumann
--------------------40------------------
Silvestrov
Stravinsky
Villa-Lobos
Vivaldi
Weckmann
Berg
Finzi
Puccini
Purcell
Ravel
Maslanka
Schwantner
Zwilich
Torke
Rorem
Glass
M. Brouwer
Aikman
Di Vittorio
Albinoni
-------------------------60----
Telemann
Stuck
Adams
Stölzel
Stradella
Wagner
Strozzi
Vasks
Scriabin
Schieferdecker
Pergolesi
M. Haydn
Rendine
Stenhammar
R. Strauss
Vanhal
Veracini
Manfredini
Grieg
Debussy
-----------------------80--------
Palestrina
Monteverdi
Rosenmüller
J. M. Bach
J. C. Bach
Mussorgsky
Rautavaara
Berwald
Reincken
Tunder
Bernhard
Schütz
Chopin
Holst
De Falla
Janáček
Milhaud
Geminiani
Hoffmann
Hindemith
8) Nice, Poju.
Quote from: classicalgeek on June 14, 2022, 08:55:54 AM
I'm counting 57 entries in common with your list! ;D Of course I'm not familiar with the work of all the composers on your list, and I'm sure as I broaden my listening, my own list will fluctuate.
Yes, indeed. 8)
I'm quite amazed, reading your lists makes me realize how much music I don't know yet. :o
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on June 14, 2022, 11:14:35 AM
I'm quite amazed, reading your lists makes me realize how much music I don't know yet. :o
Well, in fairness, there's only so much time in the day. ;) What composers from the lists have interested you so far that you don't know?
How do you guys even do this? I've been sitting here for a half hour, went through the entire Composer Index in our composer board, and I've only thought of 83 names ;D
I tried to post in the 26-50 thread yesterday but canceled this. It becomes largely arbitrary for me around 30 or so and it would become meaningless later on. There would be increasingly composers where I like a few works but don't care (or know) the rest and the ordering would also become arbitrary.
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 14, 2022, 11:32:34 AM
Well, in fairness, there's only so much time in the day. ;) What composers from the lists have interested you so far that you don't know?
Yes, alas. ;) Well, for example, Khachaturian, Penderecki, Ligeti, Henze, Dutilleux, Franck, Arnold, Walton (I've heard about them, but I haven't listened to their works yet, apart from Ligeti's
Atmosphères), or Takemitsu, Bloch, Alfven, Langgaard, Englund.
I'm trying to do a list myself, but it's getting difficult to rank 100 composers. :-\
The first 50 are in chronological order. The next 50 are in any order:
01. Joseph Haydn
02. Ludwig van Beethoven
03. Franz Schubert
04. Felix Mendelssohn
05. Anton Bruckner
06. Johannes Brahms
07. Camille Saint-Saëns
08. Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
09. Antonín Dvořák
10. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
11. Leoš Janáček
12. Edward Elgar
13. Giacomo Puccini
14. Gustav Mahler
15. Richard Strauss
16. Carl Nielsen
17. Alexander Glazunov
18. Jean Sibelius
19. Albert Roussel
20. Wilhelm Stenhammar
21. Ralph Vaughan Williams
22. Sergei Rachmaninov
23. Maurice Ravel
24. Ottorino Respighi
25. Ernest Bloch
26. Béla Bartók
27. Igor Stravinsky
28. Alfredo Casella
29. Arnold Bax
30. Heitor Villa-Lobos
31. Kurt Atterberg
32. Bohuslav Martinů
33. Sergei Prokofiev
34. Arthur Honegger
35. Darius Milhaud
36. Rued Langgaard
37. Paul Hindemith
38. Francis Poulenc
39. William Walton
40. Dmitry Kabalevsky
41. Eduard Tubin
42. William Alwyn
43. Dmitry Shostakovich
44. Vagn Holmboe
45. Witold Lutosławski
46. Benjamin Britten
47. Malcolm Arnold
48. Joly Braga Santos
49. Krzysztof Penderecki
50. Alfred Schnittke
51. Johann Sebastian Bach
52. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
53. Carl Maria von Weber
54. Hector Berlioz
55. Robert Schumann
56. Franz Liszt
57. Bedrich Smetana
58. César Franck
59. Claude Debussy
60. Albéric Magnard
61. Florent Schmitt
62. Granville Bantock
63. Max Reger
64. Franz Schmidt
65. Josef Suk
66. Alexander Zemlinsky
67. Reinhold Glière
68. Grażyna Bacewicz
69. Nikolai Myaskovsky
70. Karol Szymanowski
71. Erwin Schulhoff
72. Erich Wolfgang Korngold
73. Mieczyslaw Weinberg
74. Michael Tippett
75. Robert Simpson
76. Peteris Vasks
77. Samuel Barber
78. Howard Hanson
79. Aaron Copland
80. William Schuman
81. Sergei Taneyev
82. Gian Francesco Malipiero
83. George Lloyd
84. Aram Khachaturian
85. Leevi Madetoja
86. Hugo Alfvén
87. Kalevi Aho
88. Gösta Nystroem
89. Uuno Klami
90. Paul Juon
91. Manuel de Falla
92. Richard Wagner
93. Charles Stanford
94. Gustav Holst
95. György Ligeti
96. Einar Englund
97. Edmund Rubbra
98. Boris Tchaikovsky
99. Joachim Raff
100. Dag Wirén
Quote from: Brian on June 14, 2022, 11:47:02 AM
How do you guys even do this? I've been sitting here for a half hour, went through the entire Composer Index in our composer board, and I've only thought of 83 names ;D
For me it got difficult after about 60 names, so you are not alone. :P
Quote from: Brian on June 14, 2022, 11:47:02 AM
How do you guys even do this? I've been sitting here for a half hour, went through the entire Composer Index in our composer board, and I've only thought of 83 names ;D
Well, for one thing, you have to know a lot of composers and the second thing is you have like a lot of composers music. Of course, this thread isn't to be taken seriously and the numerical ordering after my "Top 20" doesn't really matter that much.
Mine could be:
1. Wagner
2. Mahler
3. Liszt
4. Beethoven
5. Rachmaninov
6. Tchaikovsky
7. R. Strauss
8. J. Strauss II
9. Ravel
10. Holst
11. Shostakovich
12. Mozart
13. Chopin
14. Debussy
15. Nielsen
16. Sibelius
17. Prokofiev
18. Schoenberg
19. Zemlinsky
20. Bruckner
21. Dvořák
22. Brahms
23. Respighi
24. Janáček
25. Stravinsky
26. Elgar
27. Schnittke
28. Berg
29. Hartmann
30. Honegger
31. Bartók
32. Bortkiewicz
33. Bantock
34. Vaughan Williams
35. Atterberg
36. Szymanowski
37. Lutoslawski
38. Britten
39. Bizet
40. Saint-Saëns
41. Berlioz
42. Bach
43. Haydn
44. Glazunov
45. Leifs
46. Martinů
47. Korngold
48. Grieg
49. Bax
50. Rimsky-Korsakov
51. Novak
52. Roussel
53. Alkan
54. Scriabin
55. Händel
56. R. Schumann
57. Mussorgsky
58. Karlowicz
59. Falla
60. Melartin
61. Satie
62. Weber
63. Mendelssohn
64. Ives
65. Josef Strauss
66. Tippett
67. Copland
68. Delius
69. Weinberg
70. Puccini
71. Alwyn
72. Smetana
73. Tveitt
74. Messiaen
75. Holmboe
76. Webern
77. Reger
78. Vivaldi
79. Taneyev
80. Poulenc
81. Casella
82. Hindemith
83. Albéniz
84. Barber
85. Schulhoff
86. Suk
87. Milhaud
88. Schubert
89. Malipiero
90. Varèse
91. Fauré
92. Villa-Lobos
93. Gershwin
94. Pettersson
95. Kodály
96. Enescu
97. Lumbye
98. Simpson
99. Glière
100. Rautavaara
A most excellent list, Ilaria!
Quote from: classicalgeek on June 14, 2022, 03:03:51 PM
A most excellent list, Ilaria!
Yes, indeed! I knew Ilaria would pull through with a list. 8)
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on June 14, 2022, 12:30:48 PM
The first 50 are in chronological order. The next 50 are in any order:
Also a wonderful list, Cesar! I'm not surprised that we share 59 out of 100 entries. ;D And of I enjoy course many of the other composers on your list!
Quote from: classicalgeek on June 14, 2022, 04:19:34 PM
Also a wonderful list, Cesar! I'm not surprised that we share 59 out of 100 entries. ;D And of I enjoy course many of the other composers on your list!
Thank you, James! That's a good number. No doubts we share a good deal of tastes. Actually, I haven't checked your list and others' out yet to notice the coincidences and omissions.
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on June 14, 2022, 12:01:59 PM
Yes, alas. ;) Well, for example, Khachaturian, Penderecki, Ligeti, Henze, Dutilleux, Franck, Arnold, Walton (I've heard about them, but I haven't listened to their works yet, apart from Ligeti's Atmosphères), or Takemitsu, Bloch, Alfven, Langgaard, Englund.
I'm trying to do a list myself, but it's getting difficult to rank 100 composers. :-\
You reminded me that I left off Franck and Arnold from my initial list. Oh well, can't include every composer we love!
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on June 14, 2022, 04:24:58 PM
Thank you, James! That's a good number. No doubts we share a good deal of tastes. Actually, I haven't checked your list and others' out yet to notice the coincidences and omissions.
There certainly are some similarities between our lists, too, Cesar. ;)
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 14, 2022, 04:42:33 PM
There certainly are some similarities between our lists, too, Cesar. ;)
From your list I miss Braunfels, Ifukube, Hartmann, Fauré (!) and Shchedrin, among others. I realized I left many out.
It only means that... time for a 150-favorite list! :laugh:
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on June 14, 2022, 05:47:45 PM
From your list I miss Braunfels, Ifukube, Hartmann, Fauré (!) and Shchedrin, among others. I realized I left many out.
It only means that... time for a 150-favorite list! :laugh:
:P
The thing that struck me, assembling this list, is that a Top 100 is so many composers that you don't really learn anything about the list creator. Most lists are bound to have 50 or so of the same people, unless a real hipster arrives to show us all up ;D I think I've got about 10 people who have not yet been mentioned, though they are mostly in the 51-100 section!
1. Beethoven
2. Dvorák
3. Schubert
4. Haydn
5. Janáček
6. Chopin
7. Berlioz
8. Brahms
9. Tchaikovsky
10. Martinu
11. Ravel
12. Sibelius
13. D. Scarlatti
14. Grieg
15. Prokofiev
16. Albéniz
17. Rachmaninov
18. Fauré
19. Shostakovich
20. Liszt
21. Roussel
22. Bruckner
23. Walton
24. J.S. Bach
25. Debussy
== 26-50 (alphabetical order) == (25)
Boccherini, Borodin, Cantemir, Chabrier, Elgar, Falla, C. Franck, Kalliwoda, Mahler, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Mompou, Mozart, Nielsen, Poulenc, Respighi, Rossini, Rouse, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Smetana, R. Strauss, Suk, Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Weinberg
== 51-100 (alphabetical order) == (50)
Aho, Alkan, Auerbach, C.P.E. Bach, Barrios Mangoré, Bartók, Biber, Leo Brouwer, Qigang Chen, Cherubini, F. Couperin, Elgar, Escaich, Farrenc, G.L. Frank, Gershwin, Guarnieri, Handel, Hindemith, Ibert, Kernis, Kodály, Llobet, Lloyd, Martinsson, D. Matthews, Moszkowski, Mussorgsky, Papandopulo, Piazzolla, Pierné, Rameau, Rautavaara, Respighi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rodrigo, Salonen, Fazil Say, Sor, Still, J. Strauss Jr., Stravinsky, Tamberg, Tveitt, Villa-Lobos, Vine, Weber, S.L. Weiss, Wieniawski, Zelenka
Interesting list, Brian. Now, let's see if Karl can do one. ;D
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 14, 2022, 06:23:07 AM
Let's see those lists guys! ;)
Poju, a "Top 100" list is superfluous. Honestly, after my "Top 20", it is increasingly difficult to put the composers in any kind of order. Anyway, this is just for fun and not meant to be taken as the gospel truth.
Holmboe did not make your top 100 and we are no longer on speaking terms... :P
I'm not sure there are even 100 different composers in my collection. Maybe, if you include the ones that have snuck in on some sort of compilation.
Quote from: Madiel on June 14, 2022, 06:48:47 PM
Holmboe did not make your top 100 and we are no longer on speaking terms... :P
I'm not sure there are even 100 different composers in my collection. Maybe, if you include the ones that have snuck in on some sort of compilation.
Hah! :D Yeah, I kind of figured you doing a "Top 100" wouldn't be in the cards for you considering you only listen to a handful of composers.
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 14, 2022, 06:52:42 PM
Hah! :D Yeah, I kind of figured you doing a "Top 100" wouldn't be in the cards for you considering you only listen to a handful of composers.
It turns out I do have over 100 composers in there.
Ones that I have enough works of... well, let's say you need at least 5. That drops the list down to 54 composers if I've counted correctly.
Quote from: Brian on June 14, 2022, 11:47:02 AM
How do you guys even do this? I've been sitting here for a half hour, went through the entire Composer Index in our composer board, and I've only thought of 83 names ;D
I have no idea. I could list composers until it starts to become arbitrary, but that's somewhere around 20ish on any preferential list.
Can attempt it though.
-- Top 4, in a personally meaningful order --
1. Beethoven L
2. Schumann R
3. Schubert F
4. Bartók B
-- In order of preference --
[1. Schubert F]
2 [5]. Mozart WA
[3. Schumann R]
4 [6]. Brahms J
5 [7]. Haydn FJ
[6. Beethoven L]
7 [8]. Dvořák A
8 [9]. Bach JS
[9. Bartók B]
10. Cage J
11. Chopin F
12. Poulenc F
13. Tchaikovsky P
14. Scarlatti D
15. Janáček L
16. Shostakovich D
17. Martinů B
18. Fauré G
19. Kurtág G
20. Mendelssohn F
21. Medtner N
22. Sciarrino S
23. Sibelius J
24. Holliger H
25. Lim L
26. Ligeti G
27. Stravinsky I
-- In order I thought of them --
28. Prokofiev S
29. Nielsen C
30. Saunders R
31. Weeks J
32. Hindemith P
33. Reger M
34. Taneyev S
35. Hummel JN
36. Handel GF
37. Barrett R
38. Couperin L
39. Froberger JJ
40. Bruckner A
41. Josquin
42. Ravel M
43. Webern A
44. Finnissy M
45. Saint-Saëns C
46. Alkan CV
47. Czernowin C
48. Ustvolskaya G
49. Nono L
50. Grieg E
51. Maderna B
52. Schmitt F
53. Liszt F
54. Enescu G
55. Grisey G
56. Szymanowski K
57. Kirchner T
58. Machaut G
59. Holmboe V
60. Rejcha A
61. Berlioz H
62. Dutilleux H
63. Murail T
64. Lamb C
65. Clarke R
66. Fuchs R
67. Busoni F
68. Couperin F
69. Martin F
-- Thought of them while thinking up the above, but didn't think they belonged in quite the same tier --
70. Debussy C
71. Stockhausen K
72. Boulez P
73. Berwald F
74. Myaskovsky N
75. Messiaen O
76. Langgaard R
77. Barber S
78. Rameau G-P
79. Dussek JL
80. Charpentier M-A
81. Onslow G
82. Bacewicz G
83. Abrahamsen H
84. Honegger A
85. Leighton K
86. Kernis AJ
87. Rădulescu H
88. Bruch M
89. Simpson R
90. Rachmaninov S
91. Schuman W
92. Stenhammar W
93. Spohr L
94. Britten B
95. Röntgen J
96. Vaughan Williams R
97. Arensky A
98. Weber CM
99. Schumann C
100. Rubbra E
Nice list, amw. Bartók being in your "Top 4" means that we are now best friends. :D
Quote from: Brian on June 14, 2022, 06:30:41 PM
== 26-50 (alphabetical order) == (25)
Boccherini, Borodin, Cantemir, Chabrier, Elgar, Falla, C. Franck, Kalliwoda, Mahler, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Mompou, Mozart, Nielsen, Poulenc, Respighi, Rossini, Rouse, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Smetana, R. Strauss, Suk, Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Weinberg
== 51-100 (alphabetical order) == (50)
Aho, Alkan, Auerbach, C.P.E. Bach, Barrios Mangoré, Bartók, Biber, Leo Brouwer, Qigang Chen, Cherubini, F. Couperin, Elgar, Escaich, Farrenc, G.L. Frank, Gershwin, Guarnieri, Handel, Hindemith, Ibert, Kernis, Kodály, Llobet, Lloyd, Martinsson, D. Matthews, Moszkowski, Mussorgsky, Papandopulo, Piazzolla, Pierné, Rameau, Rautavaara, Respighi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rodrigo, Salonen, Fazil Say, Sor, Still, J. Strauss Jr., Stravinsky, Tamberg, Tveitt, Villa-Lobos, Vine, Weber, S.L. Weiss, Wieniawski, Zelenka
You repeated Respighi twice.
I forgot mentioning Pierné. One to consider.
I think this is about 100 (in a rush - going to work soon). I started grouping them by nationality in order to try to avoid including the same name twice but that plan soon broke down.
VW
Bax
Alwyn
Rawsthorne
Arnold
Bliss
Rubbra
Walton
Ireland
Rootham
Daniel Jones
Arnell
Bate
Chisholm
Daniel Jones
Grace Williams
Ruth Gipps
Moeran
Hadley
Sainton
Havergal Brian
Bantock
Holst
George Lloyd
Harris
Copland
Barber
Schuman
Creston
Ives
Paulus
Diamond
Hanson
Bernstein
Herrmann
Antheil
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Ippolitov Ivanov
Ivanovs
Kabalevsky
Khachaturian
Miaskovsky
Boris Tchaikovsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Salmanov
Eshpai
Steinberg
Glazunov
Gliere
Amirov
Weinberg
Nielsen
Bloch
Blomdahl
Langgaard
Holmboe
Honegger
Lyatoshinsky
Sibelius
Kokkonen
Madetoja
Salmenhaara
Rosenberg
Peterson Berger
Pettersson
Nystroem
Wiren
Atterberg
Raid
Kinsella
A J Potter
Andriessen (Snr)
Dutilleux
Debussy
Sauguet
Magnard
Egge
Kalabis
Kabelac
Tubin
Bruckner
Mahler
Rachmaninov
Tcherepnin (N)
Karayev
Popov
Shebalin
Rautavaara
Novak
Sumera
Rimsky-Korsakov
Martinu
Suk
Schulhoff
Nielsen
Villa-Lobos
Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Malcolm Williamson
and,at the end of the alphabet
Zemlinsky
The most striking for me is that Mirror Image has none of my top five (Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Bach, Schubert) even in the top 100!
And how often a name appears in some top 50 or so I have never heard or heard only the name but never any music... e.g. Cantemir and Rouse because Brian's list is the only one still on this screen. Or like every other name on Vandermolen's list ;)
Kudos to those of you who mentioned Alkan and Medtner. You know who you are. 😎
Quote from: Jo498 on June 14, 2022, 11:51:15 PM
The most striking for me is that Mirror Image has none of my top five (Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Bach, Schubert) even in the top 100!
And how often a name appears in some top 50 or so I have never heard or heard only the name but never any music... e.g. Cantemir and Rouse because Brian's list is the only one still on this screen. Or like every other name on Vandermolen's list ;)
Remember the list is for 'favourites' and not 'greatest'.
I'd include Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Haydn and others on a greatest list.
Sibelius, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Bruckner and Mahler would be on both lists.
Quote from: classicalgeek on June 14, 2022, 03:03:51 PM
A most excellent list, Ilaria!
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 14, 2022, 03:06:02 PM
Yes, indeed! I knew Ilaria would pull through with a list. 8)
Thank you, James and John! ;) But now I would be a little short of composers if we had to go on with a 150 top list. ???
Quote from: amw on June 14, 2022, 07:32:14 PM
96. Vaughan Williams R
This brings up something that challenged me - composers who are "one-work wonders" not to the world at large but to me in my mind. I know you have a really deep connection with Vaughan Williams' 5th symphony and its romanza, but he barely popped up before you finished listing. I had similar issues with some people who have individual works I dearly love which in some way are departures from the rest of their work, or who just did not write a lot to begin with. in my case, Lutoslawski, Dohnanyi, Holst, Taneyev, Szymanowski, Dukas. I didn't feel right saying they were favorites, but they all wrote one or two things I'd clutch close on the way to the desert island.
Quote from: Jo498 on June 14, 2022, 11:51:15 PM
The most striking for me is that Mirror Image has none of my top five (Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Bach, Schubert) even in the top 100!
And how often a name appears in some top 50 or so I have never heard or heard only the name but never any music... e.g. Cantemir and Rouse because Brian's list is the only one still on this screen. Or like every other name on Vandermolen's list ;)
I guess a lot of it has to do with my own individual path into this music. I just wasn't drawn to those particular composers you mentioned. Not that I don't respect their achievements and influence. I do like Beethoven and Haydn, but they didn't make my "Top 100" list simply because there's not enough music by them I actively like. For example, with Beethoven, I really only enjoy his symphonies, concerti and late SQs (some desert island music for me in these works). I have tried to see what's beyond the composers that everyone talks about or mentions. As it turned out, I was drawn to the sound of the 19th and 20th Century composers more than any from the earlier periods. I think what a lot of it is boils down to is my love for harmony and in the 19th Century there started to be more incorporation of dissonances that provide a bit tang to the music that drew me in like a moth to the flame.
Quote from: Brian on June 15, 2022, 04:41:56 AM
This brings up something that challenged me - composers who are "one-work wonders" not to the world at large but to me in my mind. I know you have a really deep connection with Vaughan Williams' 5th symphony and its romanza, but he barely popped up before you finished listing. I had similar issues with some people who have individual works I dearly love which in some way are departures from the rest of their work, or who just did not write a lot to begin with. in my case, Lutoslawski, Dohnanyi, Holst, Taneyev, Szymanowski, Dukas. I didn't feel right saying they were favorites, but they all wrote one or two things I'd clutch close on the way to the desert island.
You should keep trying with Szymanowski and Lutosławski. There is more to their oeuvre than your own personal favorites that are worth exploring. Hell, keep on trying with Penderecki, too, especially since you only like the late works (from 2000s until his passing).
Quote from: Brian on June 15, 2022, 04:41:56 AM
This brings up something that challenged me - composers who are "one-work wonders" not to the world at large but to me in my mind. I know you have a really deep connection with Vaughan Williams' 5th symphony and its romanza, but he barely popped up before you finished listing. I had similar issues with some people who have individual works I dearly love which in some way are departures from the rest of their work, or who just did not write a lot to begin with. in my case, Lutoslawski, Dohnanyi, Holst, Taneyev, Szymanowski, Dukas. I didn't feel right saying they were favorites, but they all wrote one or two things I'd clutch close on the way to the desert island.
An interesting point Brian.
I just wanted to point out that every composer on my list has composed a lot of music that I love. That's why they're on my list. I couldn't fathom only including a composer with whom I only like two to three works.
I'm honestly surprised how much activity this thread has gotten so far. This is hard work - I'm always paranoid that I'm gonna forget a composer or two! :D
My Top 50 Composers (pretty much in order):
1. Dvořák
2. Sibelius
3. Atterberg
4. Rachmaninoff
5. Prokofiev
6. Poulenc
7. Saint-Saëns
8. Vaughan Williams
9. Nielsen
10. Lloyd
11. Brahms
12. Casella
13. Mendelssohn
14. Braga Santos
15. Barber
16. Respighi
17. Schubert
18. Finzi
19. Andreae
20. Beethoven
21. Kabalevsky
22. Arnold
23. Ravel
24. Bax
25. Janáček
26. Elgar
27. Suk
28. Britten
29. Schumann
30. Juon
31. Bruckner
32. Stenhammar
33. Martinů
34. Medtner
35. Mozart
36. Tubin
37. Korngold
38. Walton
39. Tchaikovsky (P.I.)
40. Grieg
41. Peterson-Berger
42. Bliss
43. Melartin
44. Moeran
45. Haydn
46. Bloch
47. Raff
48. Cras
49. Magnard
50. Villa-Lobos
And now, My Top 51-100 Composers (in a relatively arbitrary order):
51. Strauss (R.)
52. Mahler
53. Roussel
54. Damase
55. Bartók
56. Copland
57. Dohnányi
58. Honegger
59. Bernstein
60. Hanson
61. Rimsky-Korsakov
62. Alwyn
63. Ibert
64. Falla
65. Holmboe
66. Pizzetti
67. Castelnuovo-Tedesco
68. Schmidt
69. Taneyev
70. Glazunov
71. Holst
72. Foulds
73. Hindemith
74. Zemlinsky
75. Hummel
76. Vivaldi
77. Bach (C.P.E.)
78. Berlioz
79. Borodin
80. Ginastera
81. Guarnieri
82. Berwald
83. Alnæs
84. Wirén
85. Stravinsky
86. Tcherepnin (A.)
87. Röntgen
88. Puccini
89. Fauré
90. Boulanger (L.)
91. Kodály
92. Khachaturian
93. Shostakovich
94. Weinberg
95. Bridge
96. Liszt
97. Debussy
98. Tveitt
99. Schulhoff
100. Nielsen (L.)
.....whew!!
Quote from: kyjo on June 16, 2022, 07:56:50 PM
I'm honestly surprised how much activity this thread has gotten so far. This is hard work - I'm always paranoid that I'm gonna forget a composer or two! :D
My Top 50 Composers (pretty much in order):
1. Dvořák
2. Sibelius
3. Atterberg
4. Rachmaninoff
5. Prokofiev
6. Poulenc
7. Saint-Saëns
8. Vaughan Williams
9. Nielsen
10. Lloyd
11. Brahms
12. Casella
13. Mendelssohn
14. Braga Santos
15. Barber
16. Respighi
17. Schubert
18. Finzi
19. Andreae
20. Beethoven
21. Kabalevsky
22. Arnold
23. Ravel
24. Bax
25. Janáček
26. Elgar
27. Suk
28. Britten
29. Schumann
30. Juon
31. Bruckner
32. Stenhammar
33. Martinů
34. Medtner
35. Mozart
36. Tubin
37. Korngold
38. Walton
39. Tchaikovsky (P.I.)
40. Grieg
41. Peterson-Berger
42. Bliss
43. Melartin
44. Moeran
45. Haydn
46. Bloch
47. Raff
48. Cras
49. Magnard
50. Villa-Lobos
And now, My Top 51-100 Composers (in a relatively arbitrary order):
51. Strauss (R.)
52. Mahler
53. Roussel
54. Damase
55. Bartók
56. Copland
57. Dohnányi
58. Honegger
59. Bernstein
60. Hanson
61. Rimsky-Korsakov
62. Alwyn
63. Ibert
64. Falla
65. Holmboe
66. Pizzetti
67. Castelnuovo-Tedesco
68. Schmidt
69. Taneyev
70. Glazunov
71. Holst
72. Foulds
73. Hindemith
74. Zemlinsky
75. Hummel
76. Vivaldi
77. Bach (C.P.E.)
78. Berlioz
79. Borodin
80. Ginastera
81. Guarnieri
82. Berwald
83. Alnæs
84. Wirén
85. Stravinsky
86. Tcherepnin (A.)
87. Röntgen
88. Puccini
89. Fauré
90. Boulanger (L.)
91. Kodály
92. Khachaturian
93. Shostakovich
94. Weinberg
95. Bridge
96. Liszt
97. Debussy
98. Tveitt
99. Schulhoff
100. Nielsen (L.)
.....whew!!
Poor Shostakovich is relegated to the 93rd slot. :( Damn, this composer has truly fallen out of favor with you, Kyle. It's okay though as Atterberg isn't even on my list...so we're even! ;) :P
Well, now I'm at least going to have to check out Atterberg...
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 16, 2022, 08:13:35 PM
Poor Shostakovich is relegated to the 93rd slot. :( Damn, this composer has truly fallen out of favor with you, Kyle. It's okay though as Atterberg isn't even on my list...so we're even! ;) :P
You always bring up Shostakovich every time I post a list. Cut me a break, man! ;D
Quote from: vandermolen on June 14, 2022, 11:45:14 PM
I think this is about 100 (in a rush - going to work soon). I started grouping them by nationality in order to try to avoid including the same name twice but that plan soon broke down.
VW
Bax
Alwyn
Rawsthorne
Arnold
Bliss
Rubbra
Walton
Ireland
Rootham
Daniel Jones
Arnell
Bate
Chisholm
Daniel Jones
Grace Williams
Ruth Gipps
Moeran
Hadley
Sainton
Havergal Brian
Bantock
Holst
George Lloyd
Harris
Copland
Barber
Schuman
Creston
Ives
Paulus
Diamond
Hanson
Bernstein
Herrmann
Antheil
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Ippolitov Ivanov
Ivanovs
Kabalevsky
Khachaturian
Miaskovsky
Boris Tchaikovsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Salmanov
Eshpai
Steinberg
Glazunov
Gliere
Amirov
Weinberg
Nielsen
Bloch
Blomdahl
Langgaard
Holmboe
Honegger
Lyatoshinsky
Sibelius
Kokkonen
Madetoja
Salmenhaara
Rosenberg
Peterson Berger
Pettersson
Nystroem
Wiren
Atterberg
Raid
Kinsella
A J Potter
Andriessen (Snr)
Dutilleux
Debussy
Sauguet
Magnard
Egge
Kalabis
Kabelac
Tubin
Bruckner
Mahler
Rachmaninov
Tcherepnin (N)
Karayev
Popov
Shebalin
Rautavaara
Novak
Sumera
Rimsky-Korsakov
Martinu
Suk
Schulhoff
Nielsen
Villa-Lobos
Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Malcolm Williamson
and,at the end of the alphabet
Zemlinsky
Great Britain - 25
Germany - 0
I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing. Just making an observation! ;D
Oh No! I forgot Braga Santos and Finzi :o
Quote from: kyjo on June 16, 2022, 10:00:39 PM
Great Britain - 25
Germany - 0
I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing. Just making an observation! ;D
They would be on my 'Greatest' list :)
My favourite composers tend to be British, American, Russian/Soviet or Scandinavian.
Quote from: kyjo on June 16, 2022, 10:00:39 PM
Great Britain - 25
Germany - 0
I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing. Just making an observation! ;D
Poor try to counterbalance the overall football WC etc. success rates... ;) (Ok, that's England only, not UK)
Quote from: Jo498 on June 17, 2022, 12:41:44 AM
Poor try to counterbalance the overall football WC etc. success rates... ;) (Ok, that's England only, not UK)
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Quote from: kyjo on June 16, 2022, 09:56:16 PM
You always bring up Shostakovich every time I post a list. Cut me a break, man! ;D
Never! I'll defend poor ol' Shostakovich until I'm dead! :)
As of right now:
1. Mahler
2. Bruckner
3. Beethoven
4. Schubert
5. J.S. Bach
6. RVW
7. Shostakovich
8. Delius
9. Josquin Des Prez
10. Dvorak
11. Tchaikovsky
12. Rachmaninov
13. Elgar
14. Debussy
15. Butterworth
16. Holst
17. Prokofiev
18. Haydn
19. Copland
20. Stravinsky
21. Mendelssohn
22. Brahms
23-100: Mahler ;D
I'm not entirely sure how meaningful my list is, but not a bad idea to list some of my favourite composers from the last couple of years for my sake as much as anything else. I don't think I got to 100 (or maybe just over), because I stopped once I stopped really feeling it and no longer felt moved to include any others. Some are included because I know lots of their music, some because what little I know makes me happy. No order. No attempt at name checking the 'right composers'. The absence of lots of those is probably due to my ignorance.
RVW
Peteris Vasks
Arnold Bax
Soren Eichberg
Joseph Schwantner
Paul Hindemith
Douglas Lilburn
Philip Glass
Malcolm Tippett
Rawsthorne
Arnold
Tabakov
Rubbra
Richard Arnell
Daniel Jones
Michael Hersch
Laslo Lajtha
Grenville Bantock
Holst
Dvorak
Gorecki
George Lloyd
Harris
Barber
Creston
Ives
Hovhaness
Henze
Diamond
Hanson
Taneyev
Smetana
George Antheil
Walter Piston
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Boris Tchaikovsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Glazunov
Carl Nielsen
Blomdahl
Holmboe
Honegger
Sibelius
Stenhammar
Tveitt
Salmenhaara
Rosenberg
Pettersson
Wiren
Kinsella
Tubin
Bruckner
Mahler
Popov
Rautavaara
Alfred Hill
Hugo Alfven
Alla Pavlova
Per Norgard
Aulis Sallinen
Sally Beamish
Poul Ruders
Elena Ruehr
Elizabeth Maconchy
Peter Maxwell Davies
Robert Simpson
Brenton Broadstock
CH Parry
Tournemire
Philip Sawyers
Colin Matthews
David Matthews
Peter Fricker
Gavin Bryars
George Onslow
Grechaninov
Hans Gal
Imants Kalnins
Johan De Meij
Joachim Raff
John Knowles Paine
Joly Braga Santos
Luis de Freitas Branco
Kalinnikov
Kallstenius
Kancheli
Malcolm Lipkin
Peter Mennin
Sunleif Rasmussen
Anton Rubinstein
Louis Spohr
Peter Sculthorpe
There's nothing ignorant about you, foxandpeng. Please stop putting yourself down like that. If anything you're one of the more interesting and enjoyable posters on the forum.
Quote from: Madiel on June 16, 2022, 09:46:45 PM
Well, now I'm at least going to have to check out Atterberg...
Atterberg is someone I once loved and still like but have cooled down a bit on. So I think I can give you both the enthusiastic version and the realistic version. ;D
Atterberg persisted on in a folk-influenced, romantic-era-based style in large scale symphonic forms well past the time when that stopped being trendy. His symphonies follow on naturally from, say, Svendsen, stylistically (but better). Philosophically, I guess you could compare him to the Russian Five: national pride, big tunes, had other employment (he was a critic), etc. He was nowhere near as challenging to the status quo as Langgaard or even his elder Nielsen. (His style remained about around Nielsen symphonies 2-3.) There are small scale works but they're spottily recorded or unavailable. One of the best is the charming suite for violin, viola, and string orchestra, which often gets paired on disc with stuff like the Wiren Serenade, Grieg Holberg Suite, Nielsen Suite, etc.
Symphonically, I think the most conservative but also most successful is 8, which is just like Grieg, but with structural mastery. (It's cyclical in form and the whole thing comes together in a showy bit of counterpoint at the end.) It would follow naturally from Grieg's concerto. Others are folksy too, like 7 (with a wild rustic finale), 4 (which is only 20 minutes long so you can use it to quickly check if you like Atterberg), and 3 (a series of very literal tone pictures; the thunderstorm is way too long but the finale is a masterpiece of Hollywoody feel-good orchestral extravagance -- you do have to like that kind of thing; certainly no Holmboian complexity there!). With 9, he decided to go big and choral like Beethoven; most people consider that one to be a bit of a mess. 5 is the GMG favorite because it is the darkest, and ends with a sinister waltz to the death.
The Sixth is the one with the funny story. He entered it into the 1928 competition that seemingly every big composer entered a symphony into. The prompt was to complete Schubert's Unfinished, which almost nobody followed. Atterberg in particular decided to send in a parodic joke piece full of deliberately ridiculous tunes and scoring. Unfortunately, this backfired when he won, everyone saw/heard the piece, and concluded that he was a moron. ;D
There are also concertos, one each, for violin, cello, piano, and French horn, if I'm remembering right. All following the general folksy late romantic mold.
Quote from: Brian on June 17, 2022, 01:45:42 PM
Atterberg is someone I once loved and still like but have cooled down a bit on. So I think I can give you both the enthusiastic version and the realistic version. ;D
Atterberg persisted on in a folk-influenced, romantic-era-based style in large scale symphonic forms well past the time when that stopped being trendy. His symphonies follow on naturally from, say, Svendsen, stylistically (but better). Philosophically, I guess you could compare him to the Russian Five: national pride, big tunes, had other employment (he was a critic), etc. He was nowhere near as challenging to the status quo as Langgaard or even his elder Nielsen. (His style remained about around Nielsen symphonies 2-3.) There are small scale works but they're spottily recorded or unavailable. One of the best is the charming suite for violin, viola, and string orchestra, which often gets paired on disc with stuff like the Wiren Serenade, Grieg Holberg Suite, Nielsen Suite, etc.
Symphonically, I think the most conservative but also most successful is 8, which is just like Grieg, but with structural mastery. (It's cyclical in form and the whole thing comes together in a showy bit of counterpoint at the end.) It would follow naturally from Grieg's concerto. Others are folksy too, like 7 (with a wild rustic finale), 4 (which is only 20 minutes long so you can use it to quickly check if you like Atterberg), and 3 (a series of very literal tone pictures; the thunderstorm is way too long but the finale is a masterpiece of Hollywoody feel-good orchestral extravagance -- you do have to like that kind of thing; certainly no Holmboian complexity there!). With 9, he decided to go big and choral like Beethoven; most people consider that one to be a bit of a mess. 5 is the GMG favorite because it is the darkest, and ends with a sinister waltz to the death.
The Sixth is the one with the funny story. He entered it into the 1928 competition that seemingly every big composer entered a symphony into. The prompt was to complete Schubert's Unfinished, which almost nobody followed. Atterberg in particular decided to send in a parodic joke piece full of deliberately ridiculous tunes and scoring. Unfortunately, this backfired when he won, everyone saw/heard the piece, and concluded that he was a moron. ;D
There are also concertos, one each, for violin, cello, piano, and French horn, if I'm remembering right. All following the general folksy late romantic mold.
The fact that the 5th is vandermolen's favorite doesn't mean it's the GMG favorite. ;)
For me it's the 3rd hands down, followed by the 2nd, 6th and 8th.
Quote from: Madiel on June 17, 2022, 01:21:24 PM
There's nothing ignorant about you, foxandpeng. Please stop putting yourself down like that. If anything you're one of the more interesting and enjoyable posters on the forum.
Thank you for your kindness Reading these lists is a timely reminder of just how much music there is out there, how knowledgeable GMG members are, and how many composers I really don't know so well. Good to have something to aspire to, I guess!
Quote from: kyjo on June 16, 2022, 07:56:50 PM
I'm honestly surprised how much activity this thread has gotten so far. This is hard work - I'm always paranoid that I'm gonna forget a composer or two! :D
Quote from: vandermolen on June 14, 2022, 11:45:14 PM
I think this is about 100 (in a rush - going to work soon). I started grouping them by nationality in order to try to avoid including the same name twice but that plan soon broke down.
Excellent lists, Kyle and Jeffrey!
Quote from: Madiel on June 17, 2022, 01:21:24 PM
There's nothing ignorant about you, foxandpeng. Please stop putting yourself down like that. If anything you're one of the more interesting and enjoyable posters on the forum.
I agree with this 100%! I really enjoy reading what you have to say, and your attention to "off-the-beaten path" composers.
Quote from: foxandpeng on June 17, 2022, 07:09:20 AM
I'm not entirely sure how meaningful my list is, but not a bad idea to list some of my favourite composers from the last couple of years for my sake as much as anything else. I don't think I got to 100 (or maybe just over), because I stopped once I stopped really feeling it and no longer felt moved to include any others. Some are included because I know lots of their music, some because what little I know makes me happy. No order. No attempt at name checking the 'right composers'. The absence of lots of those is probably due to my ignorance.
RVW
Peteris Vasks
Arnold Bax
Soren Eichberg
Joseph Schwantner
Paul Hindemith
Douglas Lilburn
Philip Glass
Malcolm Tippett
Rawsthorne
Arnold
Tabakov
Rubbra
Richard Arnell
Daniel Jones
Michael Hersch
Laslo Lajtha
Grenville Bantock
Holst
Dvorak
Gorecki
George Lloyd
Harris
Barber
Creston
Ives
Hovhaness
Henze
Diamond
Hanson
Taneyev
Smetana
George Antheil
Walter Piston
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Boris Tchaikovsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Glazunov
Carl Nielsen
Blomdahl
Holmboe
Honegger
Sibelius
Stenhammar
Tveitt
Salmenhaara
Rosenberg
Pettersson
Wiren
Kinsella
Tubin
Bruckner
Mahler
Popov
Rautavaara
Alfred Hill
Hugo Alfven
Alla Pavlova
Per Norgard
Aulis Sallinen
Sally Beamish
Poul Ruders
Elena Ruehr
Elizabeth Maconchy
Peter Maxwell Davies
Robert Simpson
Brenton Broadstock
CH Parry
Tournemire
Philip Sawyers
Colin Matthews
David Matthews
Peter Fricker
Gavin Bryars
George Onslow
Grechaninov
Hans Gal
Imants Kalnins
Johan De Meij
Joachim Raff
John Knowles Paine
Joly Braga Santos
Luis de Freitas Branco
Kalinnikov
Kallstenius
Kancheli
Malcolm Lipkin
Peter Mennin
Sunleif Rasmussen
Anton Rubinstein
Louis Spohr
Peter Sculthorpe
Cool list, foxandpeng. Also, there's nothing ignorant about your choices or anything else you post about. You're a very knowledgeable person and you should give yourself more credit. Classical music isn't a popularity contest. It involves each of us figuring out what composers we like and hopefully getting emotional/intellectual fulfillment from the music. That's it. A delightful bonus is coming to a place like GMG where we can talk ad nauseam about these composers that we love. Sharing one's passion is never ignorant and you've done this on this forum since day one. Keep it up, good sir! 8)
What the heck, it's Saturday, let's give this a try.
Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Brahms
Schumann
Mendelssohn
Berlioz
Liszt
Ravel
Debussy
Chopin
Alkan
Medtner
Tchaikovsky
Stravinsky
Skalkottas
Bartók
Janáček
R. Strauss
Korngold
Zemlinsky
Schreker
Schmidt
Bruckner
Mahler
Wagner
Zelenka
Prokofiev
Mussorgsky
Walton
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Sibelius
Nielsen
Gluck
Messiaen
Poulenc
Salieri
Puccini
Donizetti
Vivaldi
Hummel
Szymanowski
Saint-Saëns
Scriabin
Dvořák
Rachmaninov
Respighi
Grieg
Langgaard
Rimsky-Korsakov
Foulds
Hindemith
Honegger
Lili Boulanger
Shostakovich
Weber
Britten
Albéniz
Chabrier
Vierne
Busoni
Schoenberg
Boccherini
Händel
Fauré
Charpentier
Lully
Monteverdi
Martinů
Schmitt
Bizet
Satie
Rossini
Cherubini
Verdi
Bellini
Offenbach
Henselt
Gade
Bruch
Leclair
Boito
Widor
Scharwenka (F. X.)
Delalande
Caldara
Granados
de Falla
Paderewski
Mascagni
Leoncavallo
Berg
Dukas
Kalinnikov
Chausson
Litolff
Bantock
OK, that's 100.
And then there's...
Enescu
Glazunov
Dohnányi
Balakirev
Karl Orff
d'Albert
Tovey
Delius
Bloch
Guilmant
Dupré
Schoeck
Lalo
F. Martin
Sorabji
d'Indy
Mompou
Ligeti
de Séverac
Clementi
Scarlatti
Tartini
H. Brian
...
Ah, so much music!
Last, but not least, the quintessential bonus party option: the Strauss clan 🍾
Have a great weekend, everyone! 🥂
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 17, 2022, 07:48:02 PM
Cool list, foxandpeng. Also, there's nothing ignorant about your choices or anything else you post about. You're a very knowledgeable person and you should give yourself more credit. Classical music isn't a popularity contest. It involves each of us figuring out what composers we like and hopefully getting emotional/intellectual fulfillment from the music. That's it. A delightful bonus is coming to a place like GMG where we can talk ad nauseam about these composers that we love. Sharing one's passion is never ignorant and you've done this on this forum since day one. Keep it up, good sir! 8)
Totally agree :)
Quote from: Madiel on June 17, 2022, 01:21:24 PM
There's nothing ignorant about you, foxandpeng. Please stop putting yourself down like that. If anything you're one of the more interesting and enjoyable posters on the forum.
Absolutely!
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on June 17, 2022, 01:54:27 PM
The fact that the 5th is vandermolen's favorite doesn't mean it's the GMG favorite. ;)
For me it's the 3rd hands down, followed by the 2nd, 6th and 8th.
LOL Cesar. But I thought that I was 'The Voice of GMG Forum' ;D ;D
3 and 5 are my favourites but I also like 2 and the beautiful slow movement of 8.
Quote from: Wanderer on June 17, 2022, 09:44:58 PM
What the heck, it's Saturday, let's give this a try.
Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Brahms
Schumann
Mendelssohn
Berlioz
Liszt
Ravel
Debussy
Chopin
Alkan
Medtner
Tchaikovsky
Stravinsky
Skalkottas
Bartók
Janáček
R. Strauss
Korngold
Zemlinsky
Schreker
Schmidt
Bruckner
Mahler
Wagner
Zelenka
Prokofiev
Mussorgsky
Walton
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Sibelius
Nielsen
Gluck
Messiaen
Poulenc
Salieri
Puccini
Donizetti
Vivaldi
Hummel
Szymanowski
Saint-Saëns
Scriabin
Dvořák
Rachmaninov
Respighi
Grieg
Langgaard
Rimsky-Korsakov
Foulds
Hindemith
Honegger
Lili Boulanger
Shostakovich
Weber
Britten
Albéniz
Chabrier
Vierne
Busoni
Schoenberg
Boccherini
Händel
Fauré
Charpentier
Lully
Monteverdi
Martinů
Schmitt
Bizet
Satie
Rossini
Cherubini
Verdi
Bellini
Offenbach
Henselt
Gade
Bruch
Leclair
Boito
Widor
Scharwenka (F. X.)
Delalande
Caldara
Granados
de Falla
Paderewski
Mascagni
Leoncavallo
Berg
Dukas
Kalinnikov
Chausson
Litolff
Bantock
OK, that's 100.
And then there's...
Enescu
Glazunov
Dohnányi
Balakirev
Karl Orff
d'Albert
Tovey
Delius
Bloch
Guilmant
Dupré
Schoeck
Lalo
F. Martin
Sorabji
d'Indy
Mompou
Ligeti
de Séverac
Clementi
Scarlatti
Tartini
H. Brian
...
Ah, so much music!
Last, but not least, the quintessential bonus party option: the Strauss clan 🍾
Have a great weekend, everyone! 🥂
Nice list, Wanderer. Is there any kind order to it or is it just random?
Let's see...
Top 3
Mozart
Schubert
Chopin
Then, by country, otomh
Italy: Vivaldi, Locatelli, Tartini, Albinoni, Marcello (both brothers), Rossini, Paganini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini. Respighi, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Cimarosa, Bazzini
Russia: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Lyadov, Medtner, Bortkiewicz, Prokofiev, Shostakovich
France (incl. active in France): Rameau, Viotti, Berlioz, Chopin, Henri Herz, Thalberg, Liszt, Gounod, Auber, Adam, Thomas, Bizet, Massenet, Faure, Saint-Saena, Alkan, Poulenc, Francaix, Milhaud, Debussy, Ravel, Reynaldo Hahn, Onslow, Emile Waldteufel, Cecile Chaminade
Spain (incl. active in Spain): D. Scarlatti, Boccherini, Albeniz, Granados, Falla, Turina, Rodrigo, Mompou, Manuel Blasco de Nebra, Soler
England/UK (incl. active in England/UK): Bax, Bowen, Ireland, Clementi, Field, Sullivan, Cyril Scott (mostly piano music)
Scandinavia (incl. Finland): Sibelius, Grieg, Palmgren, Melartin, Petterson-Berger (mostly piano music), Stenhammar, Enna, Gade, Tellefsen
Miscellaneous nations: Dvorak, Smetana, Fibich, Bartok, Enescu, Blagoje Bersa
and finally
Austria-Germany: Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, R. Strauss, the Viennese Strauss family, JS Bach, CPE Bach, JChr Bach, CM von Weber, Spohr, Raff, Hugo Wolf, Krommer, Myslivecek, Kozeluch, Dittersdorf, Lehar, Kalman, Moritz Moszkowski, Hummel
Quote from: Florestan on June 18, 2022, 07:56:32 AM
Let's see...
Top 3
Mozart
Schubert
Chopin
Then, by country, otomh
Italy: Vivaldi, Locatelli, Tartini, Albinoni, Marcello (both brothers), Rossini, Paganini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini. Respighi, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Cimarosa, Bazzini
Russia: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Lyadov, Medtner, Bortkiewicz, Prokofiev, Shostakovich
France (incl. active in France): Rameau, Viotti, Berlioz, Chopin, Henri Herz, Thalberg, Liszt, Gounod, Auber, Adam, Thomas, Bizet, Massenet, Faure, Saint-Saena, Alkan, Poulenc, Francaix, Milhaud, Debussy, Ravel, Reynaldo Hahn, Onslow, Emile Waldteufel, Cecile Chaminade
Spain (incl. active in Spain): D. Scarlatti, Boccherini, Albeniz, Granados, Falla, Turina, Rodrigo, Mompou, Manuel Blasco de Nebra, Soler
England/UK (incl. active in England/UK): Bax, Bowen, Ireland, Clementi, Field, Sullivan, Cyril Scott (mostly piano music)
Scandinavia (incl. Finland): Sibelius, Grieg, Palmgren, Melartin, Petterson-Berger (mostly piano music), Stenhammar, Enna, Gade, Tellefsen
Miscellaneous nations: Dvorak, Smetana, Fibich, Bartok, Enescu, Blagoje Bersa
and finally
Austria-Germany: Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, R. Strauss, the Viennese Strauss family, JS Bach, CPE Bach, JChr Bach, CM von Weber, Spohr, Raff, Hugo Wolf, Krommer, Myslivecek, Kozeluch, Dittersdorf, Lehar, Kalman, Moritz Moszkowski, Hummel
Interesting list Andrei. Nice to see Cyril Scott included.
Thanks all for your generous warmth.
The next 100 composers should be fairly easy to find from all the great lists shared here!
Quote from: Florestan on June 18, 2022, 07:56:32 AM
Let's see...
Top 3
Mozart
Schubert
Chopin
Then, by country, otomh
Italy: Vivaldi, Locatelli, Tartini, Albinoni, Marcello (both brothers), Rossini, Paganini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini. Respighi, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Cimarosa, Bazzini
Russia: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Lyadov, Medtner, Bortkiewicz, Prokofiev, Shostakovich
France (incl. active in France): Rameau, Viotti, Berlioz, Chopin, Henri Herz, Thalberg, Liszt, Gounod, Auber, Adam, Thomas, Bizet, Massenet, Faure, Saint-Saena, Alkan, Poulenc, Francaix, Milhaud, Debussy, Ravel, Reynaldo Hahn, Onslow, Emile Waldteufel, Cecile Chaminade
Spain (incl. active in Spain): D. Scarlatti, Boccherini, Albeniz, Granados, Falla, Turina, Rodrigo, Mompou, Manuel Blasco de Nebra, Soler
England/UK (incl. active in England/UK): Bax, Bowen, Ireland, Clementi, Field, Sullivan, Cyril Scott (mostly piano music)
Scandinavia (incl. Finland): Sibelius, Grieg, Palmgren, Melartin, Petterson-Berger (mostly piano music), Stenhammar, Enna, Gade, Tellefsen
Miscellaneous nations: Dvorak, Smetana, Fibich, Bartok, Enescu, Blagoje Bersa
and finally
Austria-Germany: Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, R. Strauss, the Viennese Strauss family, JS Bach, CPE Bach, JChr Bach, CM von Weber, Spohr, Raff, Hugo Wolf, Krommer, Myslivecek, Kozeluch, Dittersdorf, Lehar, Kalman, Moritz Moszkowski, Hummel
The biggest news here is that you live in a miscellaneous nation. :laugh:
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 18, 2022, 06:41:27 AM
Nice list, Wanderer. Is there any kind order to it or is it just random?
No order of preference, but not random either. One would be right to assume e.g. that I like Bach and Beethoven much more than Dukas and Leoncavallo, but also wrong to e.g. assume that I like Chabrier more than Lully, Foulds more than Offenbach or Bruch more than Leclair. I assume most other lists here follow more or less the same pattern.
Quote from: Madiel on June 18, 2022, 02:38:39 PM
The biggest news here is that you live in a miscellaneous nation. :laugh:
:D
Quote from: Wanderer on June 18, 2022, 10:53:57 PM
No order of preference, but not random either. One would be right to assume e.g. that I like Bach and Beethoven much more than Dukas and Leoncavallo, but also wrong to e.g. assume that I like Chabrier more than Lully, Foulds more than Offenbach or Bruch more than Leclair. I assume most other lists here follow more or less the same pattern.
Ah, okay. Yes, this seems to be my own thinking as well, although I'd say my first 20 are a pretty close representation of how I feel. Thanks for the feedback and, more importantly, your own list.
Quote from: Wanderer on June 18, 2022, 10:53:57 PM
Offenbach or Bruch
Drat! I forgot them. Shame on me! :o
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on June 14, 2022, 11:14:35 AM
I'm quite amazed, reading your lists makes me realize how much music I don't know yet. :o
It's quite a thing, isn't it? Aside from the enormous list of composers whose music I should know but have never heard a note, there is a whole raft of them that I know poorly, appreciate less than I would like, or who sit at the edges of the 100 or so that I have already posted (which will be a completely different list next month, probably). Some I know well, but I just can't yet push any higher in my likes, no matter how much or how often I listen, others I keep prodding and like very much, but get distracted and then forget I was looking at.
Minor list to remind me:
Adams, Arensky, Alkan, Alwyn, Atterberg, Moeran, Walton, Brian, Britten, Ireland, Bliss, Rouse, Gunning, Taylor, Wordsworth, Bate, Stanford, Standford, MacMillan, Bartok, Borodin, Balakirev, Martinu, Messiaen, Tansman, Miaskovsky, Silvestrov, Stravinsky, Scriabin, Lutoslawski, Szymanowsky, Ivanovs, Khatchaturian, Malipiero, William Schuman, Mathias, Kernis, Amirov, Gade, Penderecki, Tcherepnin A and N, Vine, Schnittke, Leifs, Part, Lyatoshinsky, Kokkonen, Madetoja, Nystroem.... doubtless there are more if I were to be more structured in my thinking.
Then there are others I keep meaning to start on... Langgaard, Weinberg, Casella, Guarnieri, Chavez, Villa Lobos, Roussel, Egge
That's before the massive list that I'm not admitting to having absolutely no idea about or haven't even pondered.
One cannot follow absolutely every road, unless one gets a paid job doing it / establishes one's own paying concern.
I'd actually have some interest in being a music reviewer only I expect my wages would be slashed in the process...
Quote from: Madiel on June 20, 2022, 04:44:15 AM
One cannot follow absolutely every road, unless one gets a paid job doing it / establishes one's own paying concern.
I'd actually have some interest in being a music reviewer only I expect my wages would be slashed in the process...
Depressing, isn't it? More ears, more hours in the day, and more years to enjoy it, please. I could do with a job reading books, listening to music, and being paid large sums of money, really.
Quote from: Madiel on June 20, 2022, 04:44:15 AM
One cannot follow absolutely every road...
Absolutely, which is why I'm completely okay with my own list. There are some members here who have a huge appetite for exploring new music and I do, too, to some degree. I know I can't explore as much as I'd like to and one has to willing to come to terms with this and one reason why I did create this thread was to show that a "Top 100" composers list is rather over-the-top, but it gives me a pool from which to draw. I know that no matter what composer in my "Top 100" I choose to listen to, I'll come away a satisfied listener. This simply couldn't be done by only listening to a handful of composers, but I believe that I've reeled in my new musical explorations a lot over the years. I'm satisfied with the composers that I know and many of them I know incredibly well, especially in my "Top 20" for example.
Quote from: Madiel on June 17, 2022, 01:21:24 PM
There's nothing ignorant about you, foxandpeng. Please stop putting yourself down like that. If anything you're one of the more interesting and enjoyable posters on the forum.
While I agree with you about Danny (foxandpeng), I don't like how your last sentence sort of implies that the majority of GMG member's posts are uninteresting and unenjoyable....
I've throughly enjoyed reading everyone's lists in this thread. Y'all have great taste!
Quote from: kyjo on June 21, 2022, 07:29:34 AM
While I agree with you about Danny (foxandpeng), I don't like how your last sentence sort of implies that the majority of GMG member's posts are uninteresting and unenjoyable....
Hehe. I have to say, that made me laugh :laugh: ...
Quote from: kyjo on June 21, 2022, 07:33:50 AM
I've throughly enjoyed reading everyone's lists in this thread. Y'all have great taste!
Agreed. Aside from that, these lists are a great repository from which to explore new music. I learn so much from following different threads and connections between the composers that people enjoy here, many of whom I would never have encountered anywhere else! I very occasionally prod other classical forums, but this is by far the most eclectic, knowledgeable and (usually) friendly that I have found. I would be much the poorer without it.
Quote from: kyjo on June 16, 2022, 07:56:50 PM
I'm honestly surprised how much activity this thread has gotten so far. This is hard work - I'm always paranoid that I'm gonna forget a composer or two! :D
My Top 50 Composers (pretty much in order):
1. Dvořák
2. Sibelius
3. Atterberg
4. Rachmaninoff
5. Prokofiev
6. Poulenc
7. Saint-Saëns
8. Vaughan Williams
9. Nielsen
10. Lloyd
11. Brahms
12. Casella
13. Mendelssohn
14. Braga Santos
15. Barber
16. Respighi
17. Schubert
18. Finzi
19. Andreae
20. Beethoven
21. Kabalevsky
22. Arnold
23. Ravel
24. Bax
25. Janáček
26. Elgar
27. Suk
28. Britten
29. Schumann
30. Juon
31. Bruckner
32. Stenhammar
33. Martinů
34. Medtner
35. Mozart
36. Tubin
37. Korngold
38. Walton
39. Tchaikovsky (P.I.)
40. Grieg
41. Peterson-Berger
42. Bliss
43. Melartin
44. Moeran
45. Haydn
46. Bloch
47. Raff
48. Cras
49. Magnard
50. Villa-Lobos
And now, My Top 51-100 Composers (in a relatively arbitrary order):
51. Strauss (R.)
52. Mahler
53. Roussel
54. Damase
55. Bartók
56. Copland
57. Dohnányi
58. Honegger
59. Bernstein
60. Hanson
61. Rimsky-Korsakov
62. Alwyn
63. Ibert
64. Falla
65. Holmboe
66. Pizzetti
67. Castelnuovo-Tedesco
68. Schmidt
69. Taneyev
70. Glazunov
71. Holst
72. Foulds
73. Hindemith
74. Zemlinsky
75. Hummel
76. Vivaldi
77. Bach (C.P.E.)
78. Berlioz
79. Borodin
80. Ginastera
81. Guarnieri
82. Berwald
83. Alnæs
84. Wirén
85. Stravinsky
86. Tcherepnin (A.)
87. Röntgen
88. Puccini
89. Fauré
90. Boulanger (L.)
91. Kodály
92. Khachaturian
93. Shostakovich
94. Weinberg
95. Bridge
96. Liszt
97. Debussy
98. Tveitt
99. Schulhoff
100. Nielsen (L.)
.....whew!!
I thought it might be interesting to break down my list by nationality:
American (USA) - 4
Austro-German - 16
Czech - 5
Dutch - 1
English - 13
French - 11
Hungarian - 4
Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese) - 2
Italian - 6
Nordic - 14
Russian (incl. Khachaturian) - 13
South American - 3
Swiss - 5
....does that add up to 100? Probably not. ;D
Quote from: foxandpeng on June 21, 2022, 07:55:16 AM
I very occasionally prod other classical forums, but this is by far the most eclectic, knowledgeable and (usually) friendly that I have found.
Completely agreed.
Quote from: kyjo on June 21, 2022, 07:29:34 AM
While I agree with you about Danny (foxandpeng), I don't like how your last sentence sort of implies that the majority of GMG member's posts are uninteresting and unenjoyable....
Not at all. It just implies LESS interesting and LESS enjoyable...
...a total absence of interest and joy only exists in a few isolated cases.
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on June 14, 2022, 12:30:48 PMThe first 50 are in chronological order. The next 50 are in any order:
01. Joseph Haydn
02. Ludwig van Beethoven
03. Franz Schubert
04. Felix Mendelssohn
05. Anton Bruckner
06. Johannes Brahms
07. Camille Saint-Saëns
08. Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
09. Antonín Dvořák
10. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
11. Leoš Janáček
12. Edward Elgar
13. Giacomo Puccini
14. Gustav Mahler
15. Richard Strauss
16. Carl Nielsen
17. Alexander Glazunov
18. Jean Sibelius
19. Albert Roussel
20. Wilhelm Stenhammar
21. Ralph Vaughan Williams
22. Sergei Rachmaninov
23. Maurice Ravel
24. Ottorino Respighi
25. Ernest Bloch
26. Béla Bartók
27. Igor Stravinsky
28. Alfredo Casella
29. Arnold Bax
30. Heitor Villa-Lobos
31. Kurt Atterberg
32. Bohuslav Martinů
33. Sergei Prokofiev
34. Arthur Honegger
35. Darius Milhaud
36. Rued Langgaard
37. Paul Hindemith
38. Francis Poulenc
39. William Walton
40. Dmitry Kabalevsky
41. Eduard Tubin
42. William Alwyn
43. Dmitry Shostakovich
44. Vagn Holmboe
45. Witold Lutosławski
46. Benjamin Britten
47. Malcolm Arnold
48. Joly Braga Santos
49. Krzysztof Penderecki
50. Alfred Schnittke
51. Johann Sebastian Bach
52. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
53. Carl Maria von Weber
54. Hector Berlioz
55. Robert Schumann
56. Franz Liszt
57. Bedrich Smetana
58. César Franck
59. Claude Debussy
60. Albéric Magnard
61. Florent Schmitt
62. Granville Bantock
63. Max Reger
64. Franz Schmidt
65. Josef Suk
66. Alexander Zemlinsky
67. Reinhold Glière
68. Grażyna Bacewicz
69. Nikolai Myaskovsky
70. Karol Szymanowski
71. Erwin Schulhoff
72. Erich Wolfgang Korngold
73. Mieczyslaw Weinberg
74. Michael Tippett
75. Robert Simpson
76. Peteris Vasks
77. Samuel Barber
78. Howard Hanson
79. Aaron Copland
80. William Schuman
81. Sergei Taneyev
82. Gian Francesco Malipiero
83. George Lloyd
84. Aram Khachaturian
85. Leevi Madetoja
86. Hugo Alfvén
87. Kalevi Aho
88. Gösta Nystroem
89. Uuno Klami
90. Paul Juon
91. Manuel de Falla
92. Richard Wagner
93. Charles Stanford
94. Gustav Holst
95. György Ligeti
96. Einar Englund
97. Edmund Rubbra
98. Boris Tchaikovsky
99. Joachim Raff
100. Dag Wirén
Some modifications:
These leave:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Carl Maria von Weber
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Robert Simpson
Peteris Vasks
George Lloyd
Leevi Madetoja
Kalevi Aho
Gösta Nystroem
Uuno Klami
György Ligeti
Charles StanfordThese enter:
Julius Röntgen
Anton Arensky
Frank Bridge
Franz Schreker
Erkki Melartin
Ernő Dohnányi
Arthur Bliss
László Lajtha
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Nino Rota
Alberto Ginastera
Rodion Shchedrin
Quote from: foxandpeng on June 17, 2022, 07:09:20 AMI'm not entirely sure how meaningful my list is, but not a bad idea to list some of my favourite composers from the last couple of years for my sake as much as anything else. I don't think I got to 100 (or maybe just over), because I stopped once I stopped really feeling it and no longer felt moved to include any others. Some are included because I know lots of their music, some because what little I know makes me happy. No order. No attempt at name checking the 'right composers'. The absence of lots of those is probably due to my ignorance.
RVW
Peteris Vasks
Arnold Bax
Soren Eichberg
Joseph Schwantner
Paul Hindemith
Douglas Lilburn
Philip Glass
Malcolm Tippett
Rawsthorne
Arnold
Tabakov
Rubbra
Richard Arnell
Daniel Jones
Michael Hersch
Laslo Lajtha
Grenville Bantock
Holst
Dvorak
Gorecki
George Lloyd
Harris
Barber
Creston
Ives
Hovhaness
Henze
Diamond
Hanson
Taneyev
Smetana
George Antheil
Walter Piston
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Boris Tchaikovsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Glazunov
Carl Nielsen
Blomdahl
Holmboe
Honegger
Sibelius
Stenhammar
Tveitt
Salmenhaara
Rosenberg
Pettersson
Wiren
Kinsella
Tubin
Bruckner
Mahler
Popov
Rautavaara
Alfred Hill
Hugo Alfven
Alla Pavlova
Per Norgard
Aulis Sallinen
Sally Beamish
Poul Ruders
Elena Ruehr
Elizabeth Maconchy
Peter Maxwell Davies
Robert Simpson
Brenton Broadstock
CH Parry
Tournemire
Philip Sawyers
Colin Matthews
David Matthews
Peter Fricker
Gavin Bryars
George Onslow
Grechaninov
Hans Gal
Imants Kalnins
Johan De Meij
Joachim Raff
John Knowles Paine
Joly Braga Santos
Luis de Freitas Branco
Kalinnikov
Kallstenius
Kancheli
Malcolm Lipkin
Peter Mennin
Sunleif Rasmussen
Anton Rubinstein
Louis Spohr
Peter Sculthorpe
Hm. Time for another go, maybe, reflecting either how fickle I am, or how much I have learned, grown, or changed. Or because it is warm today, and changeable because of the weather. Probably no order, new additions at the bottom.
RVW
Peteris Vasks
Arnold Bax
Soren Eichberg
Joseph Schwantner
Paul Hindemith
Philip Glass
Malcolm Tippett
Alan Rawsthorne
Malcolm Arnold
Emil Tabakov
Edmund Rubbra
Richard Arnell
Daniel Jones
Michael Hersch
Laslo Lajtha
Grenville Bantock
Gorecki
George Lloyd
Roy Harris
Barber
Creston
Ives
Hovhaness
Henze
Diamond
Hanson
Sergei Taneyev
Smetana
George Antheil
Walter Piston
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Glazunov
Carl Nielsen
Holmboe
Honegger
Sibelius
Stenhammar
Salmenhaara
Rosenberg
Pettersson
Wiren
Tubin
Bruckner
Mahler
Popov
Rautavaara
Hugo Alfven
Per Norgard
Aulis Sallinen
Poul Ruders
Elena Ruehr
Elizabeth Maconchy
Peter Maxwell Davies
Robert Simpson
Brenton Broadstock
Charles Tournemire
Philip Sawyers
Colin Matthews
David Matthews
Peter Fricker
Gavin Bryars
Grechaninov
Hans Gal
Imants Kalnins
John Knowles Paine
Joly Braga Santos
Luis de Freitas Branco
Kalinnikov
Kancheli
Malcolm Lipkin
Peter Mennin
Sunleif Rasmussen
Peter Sculthorpe
Pehr Nordgren
Ib Norholm
Myaskovsky
William Alwyn
William Schuman
Christopher Rouse
Christopher Gunning
Claudio Santoro
Mily Balakirev
Thomas de Hartmann
Helvi Leiviska
Kalevi Aho
Weinberg
Niklas Sivelov
Paul von Klenau
Penderecki
Alfred Schnittke
Stephen Gerber
Steve Elcock
Talivaldis Kenins
Valentin Silvestrov
William Mathias
William Wordsworth
Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Rihards Dubra
Terry Riley