There was not a poll about composers from these nationalities. I guess there will be some obvious choices from many of you on this poll, but it doesn't matter. On the top, please mention the composer you consider your overall favorite in each nationality. Mine are:
German:
1. Johannes Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Strauss
Paul Hindemith
Richard Wagner
Johann Sebastian Bach
Max Reger
Felix Mendelssohn
Carl Maria von Weber
Walter Braunfels
Georg Friederich Händel
Austrian
1. Franz Schubert
Gustav Mahler
Anton Bruckner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joseph Marx
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Franz Schmidt
Alexander Zemlinsky
Franz Schreker
Joseph Haydn
Siegmund von Hausegger
Hmmm. Not easy to figure out some of them. Beethoven left Germany at 22 and never came back, same with Brahms who moved to Vienna at 29 and spent most of his career there. I had to google Krenek, Wellesz and Toch to check their birthplaces and whereabouts... :D
Anyhow, just for fun:
Schütz
Bach
Beethoven
Schumann
Wagner
Brahms
R. Strauss
Reger
Braunfels
Hindemith
Raphael
Biber
Haydn
Mozart
Schubert
J. Strauss
Bruckner
Mahler
Berg
Schönberg
Wellesz
Toch
Quote from: SymphonicAddict on May 24, 2019, 03:05:49 PM
There was not a poll about composers from these nationalities. I guess there will be some obvious choices from many of you on this poll, but it doesn't matter. On the top, please mention the composer you consider your overall favorite in each nationality. Mine are:
Great idea!
German:1. Johann Sebastian BachLudwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Paul Hindemith
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Felix Mendelssohn
Ernst Toch
Austrian1. Joseph HaydnGustav Mahler
Anton Bruckner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Alexander Zemlinsky
Franz Schreker
Arnold Schoenberg
Franz Schubert
German:
Beethoven
Bach
Brahms
Schumann
Handel
Mendelssohn
Wagner
Telemann
C.M. v. Weber
Schütz
CPE Bach
Austrian:
J. Haydn
W.A. Mozart
Schubert
Mahler
Bruckner
Berg
Joh. Strauss jun.
Jos. Strauss
Zemlinsky
Biber
Schoenberg
Austrian
Mozart & Schubert ex aequo
Joseph Haydn
Johann Strauss Sr.
Johann Strauss Jr.
Joseph Strauss
Joseph Lanner
Gustav Mahler
German
Schumann
Brahms
Mendelssohn
Carl Maria von Weber
CPE Bach
JC Bach
Beethoven
JS Bach
Carl Loewe
Toch, Wellesz, Hartmann and Johann Strauss II are other superb choices I could have taken too! I should like Schumann, but he hasn't click on me, at least not yet.