Your Three Favorite Composers

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Yes, I know most of Scriabin's work. The Poem of Ecstasy is great late Scriabin but it never quite hit me like many of his other works

Ah okay. That one is one of my favourites. ^_^

[nodogen]

For me:

Prometheus
Piano Sonatas (so so good!)
Mysterium
Etudes

Oh, I thought Mysterium was never finalised?

[71 dB]

I'm sure I'll make a return to classical music at some point, but right now it's not even a concern if I do or if I don't.

There has been days in my life when I have feld I might never return to classical music, but so far I have eventually. What I have learned about myself is that for me some music genres are "soulmates". For me for example electronic dance music (techno, house, trance, jungle, etc.) is a soulmate genre with classical music.  Whenever I am into the other, I am also into the other. Another soulmate group is formed of genres such as ambient/new age/electronic non-dance (e.g. Tangerine Dream), pop (e.g. Kesha), rock (e.g. King Crimson) and movie soundtracks. My dad is a jazz-nut and I spent my childhood listening to Max Roach's epic drum solos, but I never became a jazz-nut myself. I find jazz pretty boring music, all it is is improvisation. Of course there are exceptions and there's some jazz to my liking. Max Roach's drum solos are still epic!  Since I listen to jazz so little, I don't know in what group it belongs to. Probably with classical music and electronic dance music. It's also possible, there's more soulmate groups than two?

I started my music listening with electronic dance music in 1988. In 1997 I discovered classical music, perhaps because these two genres are soulmates (for me at least). Perhaps we discover other genres of music for two reasons:

(1) we discover another soulmate genre in the group that we are currently in.
(2) we are fed up with the soulmate genre(s) we have been listening for long and we want the opposite

In 2001 I probably did (2) by discovering pop music* and a few years later new age and my classical music listening almost stopped. Of course at that time I did not know what is happening, and all of this is still only a theory (to be called crazy by you, I know). For the last 15 years or so I have been flip-flopping between the two (?) soulmate groups and perhaps 5 years ago I started to see the soulmate connections between different music genres.

So, you'll return to classical music when you are fed up with the soulmate group you are currently listening to. 

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* I moved 2001 and for the first time in my life I was able to see MTV channel on TV. That probably triggered my "need" to change the soulmate group I was listening to.

[Karl Henning]

- The "número uno": Richard Wagner
- Claude Debussy
- Pierre Boulez

Interesting list!  On the surface, it seems all over the place;  but really, there is a solid core there.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

You are a man of excellent taste,  jessop!  Your list is very similar to mine:

- The "número uno": Richard Wagner
- Claude Debussy
- Pierre Boulez

Still can't believe I left out Igor Feodorovich,  but "Claude de France" gets the upper hand chez ritter these days. ..

Interesting, we have almost the same top 3. Wagner and Debussy, that is. About Boulez as a composer I know pretty much nothing at all, a shame to admit.

Thread duty:

Wagner
Debussy
Sibelius

[nodogen]

Alexander Nemtin's reconstruction?

Ah, news to me. Will investigate. Merci.

[Karl Henning]

Interesting, we have almost the same top 3. Wagner and Debussy, that is. About Boulez as a composer I know pretty much nothing at all, a shame to admit.

This is a new music ensemble here at the New England Conservatory (for whom the piece is already rather a classic, of course o:) )

http://www.youtube.com/v/x2A30tJAH3s

[ritter]

Ah, news to me. Will investigate. Merci.

Nemtin produced a performing version of the Prelude ("Preparation") to Mysterium...it was recorded by Ashkenazy in Berlin...

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...a recording that is also included in the big Decca box:

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Regards,

[Florestan]

Haydn, Mozart, Schubert

[nodogen]

Thanks ritter, it looks a bit pricey! Having read a bit about it I'm not sure I like the idea of a reconstruction; it seems more like a construction to me. I'd want to know it's 100% Scriabin which it clearly cannot be. Still, interesting. Who knows what Scriabin might have done next if he'd lived? Disappeared into Tibet probably!

[Gurn Blanston]

Haydn, Mozart, Schubert

I can live with that, unamended.

I would add Beethoven and Vivaldi to make a round 5.... 0:)

[Wakefield]

The third name is always the hardest:

Bach

Haydn

Vivaldi

Actually, when I wrote Vivaldi, I felt I'm being terribly ungrateful and unfair to Schubert, Shostakovich, Schumann, Brahms, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi... 

[Karl Henning]

The third name is always the hardest:

Bach

Haydn

Vivaldi

I appreciate both the challenge, and the immediate remorse 

. . . but I thoroughly approve your troika.

[Wakefield]

I appreciate both the challenge, and the immediate remorse 

. . . but I thoroughly approve your troika.

As a Catholic, I have a good training in remorse and forgiving. 

[nodogen]

Well Nemtin truly believed he was a reincarnation of Scriabin.......

That's taking marketing too far.

[nodogen]

At one point I was the eighth reincarnation of Scriabin, if you remember

Good times! 

Were you?! 😮

I either missed that or it's leaked out of my mind. Probably the latter.

[Autumn Leaves]

J.S. Bach - IMHO the greatest Composer ever (and deservedly one of GMG's most popular)..
Shostakovich - I get a lot of value out of his Orchestral and Chamber music.
Wagner - Only really started to listen to his music seriously the last few weeks and I am astounded by it..

[Crudblud]

That ever reliable trio: Zappa, Mahler, Ravel.

[Karl Henning]

Wagner - Only really started to listen to his music seriously the last few weeks and I am astounded by it..

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Oh, it's astonishing, all right.
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[bwv 1080]

currently
Beethoven, Schumann & Ferneyhough