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Poll
Question: Who is your favorite composer for keyboard instrument (NOT piano)?
Option 1: J.S. Bach votes: 15
Option 2: Handel votes: 0
Option 3: D. Scarlatti votes: 1
Option 4: Couperin votes: 1
Option 5: Rameau votes: 2
Option 6: Haydn votes: 0
Option 7: Buxtehude votes: 0
Option 8: A member of the Bach family other than J.S. votes: 0
Option 9: Byrd votes: 0
Option 10: Soler votes: 0
Option 11: Poulenc votes: 1
Option 12: Falla votes: 0
Option 13: Ligeti votes: 2
Option 14: Reger votes: 0
Option 15: Theodore Dubois votes: 0
Option 16: Dupre votes: 0
Option 17: Durufle votes: 0
Option 18: Brahms votes: 1
Option 19: Widor votes: 0
Option 20: Messiaen votes: 2
Option 21: Somebody else votes: 0
Option 22: Accordions are keyboard instruments too! Gosh votes: 2
Title: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Brian on August 28, 2008, 03:10:27 PM
In response to Holden's reply to Don's thread.

And because I really think all these polls are getting silly.
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Lethevich on August 28, 2008, 03:15:52 PM
Messiaen kicks butt with the ondes martenot :)
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: hornteacher on August 28, 2008, 03:23:26 PM
Quote from: Brian on August 28, 2008, 03:10:27 PM
In response to Holden's reply to Don's thread.

And because I really think all these polls are getting silly.

Nah, I love stupid polls.  Keep them coming.

(I chose Bach)
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Brian on August 28, 2008, 03:29:10 PM
Quote from: hornteacher on August 28, 2008, 03:23:26 PM
Nah, I love stupid polls.  Keep them coming.
Next up: Your favorite composer whose middle name begins with R  ;D
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Don on August 28, 2008, 05:09:51 PM
Quote from: hornteacher on August 28, 2008, 03:23:26 PM
Nah, I love stupid polls.  Keep them coming.

(I chose Bach)

Bach by a mile.
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Sergeant Rock on August 28, 2008, 05:14:36 PM
Quote from: Don on August 28, 2008, 05:09:51 PM
Bach by a mile.


Yep, Bach. I haven't participated in the most recent polls (impossible for me to choose between Mahler and Wagner or Chopin and Schumann) but this one is easy.

Sarge

Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Wanderer on August 29, 2008, 12:26:46 AM
This is as easy as the one that had Beethoven among the choices. Bah!
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: val on August 29, 2008, 12:57:45 AM
J S BACH
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Michael on August 29, 2008, 02:24:33 AM
Messiaen, his organ works are just fantastic  ;)
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Mark on August 29, 2008, 04:09:10 AM
Big love for Scarlatti.
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: orbital on August 29, 2008, 04:19:22 AM
Quote from: Mark on August 29, 2008, 04:09:10 AM
Big love for Scarlatti.
me too, but Bach is in there  >:D
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Que on August 30, 2008, 04:14:56 AM
Bach, but where is Froberger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Froberger) in the list?  ::) 8)

Q
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Don on August 30, 2008, 08:11:34 AM
Quote from: Que on August 30, 2008, 04:14:56 AM
Bach, but where is Froberger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Froberger) in the list?  ::) 8)

Q

Cabezon would have been a fine entry also.
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Josquin des Prez on August 30, 2008, 09:18:41 AM
Forget Froberger or Cabezon, where the hell is Sweelinck? That is THE number one entry if you really want to include composers from that particular era.
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Philoctetes on September 03, 2008, 05:16:40 PM
I voted Rameau. I find him quite jolly and lively.
Title: Re: Your favorite composer for non-pianistic keyboard
Post by: Josquin des Prez on September 04, 2008, 05:29:05 AM
Quote from: Philoctetes on September 03, 2008, 05:16:40 PM
I voted Rameau. I find him quite jolly and lively.

Rameau... jolly? He's one of the most heart felt composers of the Baroque era. The mind boggles...