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Title: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Ataraxia on March 01, 2012, 12:24:11 PM
 :o
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Karl Henning on March 01, 2012, 12:25:25 PM
Mahler.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Gurn Blanston on March 01, 2012, 12:28:26 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on March 01, 2012, 12:25:25 PM
Mahler.

No, you misread. That's 118... 18 is Bach, J.S. .....

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Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Ataraxia on March 01, 2012, 12:29:16 PM
Actually I would have to think about this. I never get past number four or so...
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Mirror Image on March 01, 2012, 12:29:22 PM
Honegger is listed as my No. 18 on my Facebook page, so I'll just go with that for now. :)
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Bulldog on March 01, 2012, 12:32:26 PM
Froberger.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Karl Henning on March 01, 2012, 12:33:23 PM
 Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on Today at 05:28:26 PM (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=20099.msg606196#msg606196)
No, you misread. That's 118... 18 is Bach, J.S. .....

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I thought 118 was . . . no, I mustn't . . . .
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Scion7 on March 01, 2012, 03:59:27 PM
I dunno ... Berg?
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Marc on March 01, 2012, 04:09:35 PM
Bach, C.P.E.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: UB on March 01, 2012, 05:30:43 PM
I am waiting for the "150 composers you have never heard of" thread before posting my picks.  :D
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Philoctetes on March 01, 2012, 05:33:39 PM
Quote from: UB on March 01, 2012, 05:30:43 PM
I am waiting for the "150 composers you have never heard of" thread before posting my picks.  :D

We have that thread. It's called: Only the New (Music), where I essentially am alone in the endeavor.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Lethevich on March 01, 2012, 05:34:14 PM
If I hadn't already made a top 25, I would venture Sibelius. His music has a "number 18" kind of vibe to it.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: DavidW on March 01, 2012, 06:36:11 PM
Nielsen for me! :)
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: some guy on March 01, 2012, 08:29:38 PM
Quote from: UB on March 01, 2012, 05:30:43 PM
I am waiting for the "150 composers you have never heard of" thread before posting my picks.  :D
Maryanne Amacher, M. Behrens, Ludger Brümmer, Christian Calon, Iancu Dumitrescu, Gerald Eckert, Beatriz Ferreyra, Christine Groult, Balázs Horváth, Philip Jeck, Zbigniew Karkowski, Ingvar Lidholm, Sachiko M, Norbert Möslang, Andrea Neumann, Helmut Oehring, Rosy Parlane, Israel Quellet, Guy Reibel, Philip Samartzis, Doug Theriault, Dimitri Voudouris, Jan Welmers, R.H.Y. Yau, Agata Zubel.

So, I do that five more times, and UB will post his picks!!
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: springrite on March 01, 2012, 09:20:18 PM
Going by my alphabetical list, I'd say Aho. Bing A is at #1, while Aho is at #18.

Bach, by the way, is in the top 100, while Beethoven is in the top 150.

Poor Samuel Zyman...
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: eyeresist on March 01, 2012, 09:43:21 PM
Quote from: springrite on March 01, 2012, 09:20:18 PMGoing by my alphabetical list, I'd say Aho. Bing A is at #1, while Aho is at #18.

Bach, by the way, is in the top 100, while Beethoven is in the top 150.

Poor Samuel Zyman...

Quick, Karl! You must become Aaahenning.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: springrite on March 01, 2012, 09:55:53 PM
Quote from: eyeresist on March 01, 2012, 09:43:21 PM
Quick, Karl! You must become Aaahenning.

Also first name to Aaron.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: DieNacht on March 01, 2012, 10:23:06 PM
No.18 on the alphabetical list is Fiodor (Feodor) Akimenko (1876-1945). He is represented by a symphonic poem, "Angel" (1922), the subject taken from a poem by Lermontov.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Sergeant Rock on March 02, 2012, 01:13:11 AM
Quote from: springrite on March 01, 2012, 09:20:18 PM
Going by my alphabetical list, I'd say Aho

My 18 is Daniel François Esprit Auber

Sarge
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Elgarian on March 02, 2012, 12:00:56 PM
I always skip 18 and go straight on to 19. Just my luck to get a thread like this, eh?
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Karl Henning on March 02, 2012, 12:02:05 PM
18 has kind of an I Ching vibe, hasn't it? Is that why you give it an habitual miss?
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Elgarian on March 02, 2012, 12:10:10 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on March 02, 2012, 12:02:05 PM
18 has kind of an I Ching vibe, hasn't it? Is that why you give it an habitual miss?

Well, like everyone else I use the I Ching when compiling my lists of composers, and it's unnerving when I so persistently get that sentence that goes: 'The wise man evades the 18 and embraces the 19 with delight'. It's like treading on the cracks in the pavement. Best just not to do it.
Title: Re: Your No. 18 Composer
Post by: Leon on March 02, 2012, 12:17:30 PM
According to my list of 25, my #18 is Dufay, which is completely all right with me

:)