Your Favorite Composer, Ever, Period!

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Christo

#60
December 29, 2018, 12:06:27 AM
Quote from: kyjo on December 28, 2018, 06:03:16 PMbut I must say we listened to a bit of Aida in my music history class at one point and I was soon searching for the emergency exits!  ::) ;D
Small mistake here, must have been his opera 'Salida', not Aida:
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

kyjo

#61
December 29, 2018, 10:56:12 AM
Quote from: Christo on December 29, 2018, 12:06:27 AM
Small mistake here, must have been his opera 'Salida', not Aida:


:D :laugh:
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

San Antone

#64
October 02, 2019, 05:08:57 PM
Beethoven.

Karl Henning

#65
October 02, 2019, 05:47:34 PM
Stravinsky
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Ken B

#66
October 02, 2019, 06:01:36 PM
Quote from: San Antone on October 02, 2019, 05:08:57 PM
Beethoven.
Cheat! You already picked one and the rule is no second thoughts.

San Antone

#67
October 02, 2019, 06:42:41 PM
Quote from: Ken B on October 02, 2019, 06:01:36 PM
Cheat! You already picked one and the rule is no second thoughts.

;D

Your memory is better than mine.  Anyway, I've been listening to a lot of Beethoven and none of the other guy.

ChopinBroccoli

#68
October 02, 2019, 07:20:53 PM
Honestly, it'd probably be somebody outside the realm of "classical music"... probably a jazz guy... this would be way easier if you could choose say a favorite performer or favorite orchestra/conductor combo

To play along, though... my primary interests in classical music are instrumental orchestral pieces and piano music ... all things considered, for the combination of sheer quality and quantity, I think I'd pick Beethoven even if there's others I like just as much or more...

I'd have an easier time picking one solo performer, one conductor and one orchestra
"If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it!"
- Handel

Christo

#69
February 16, 2025, 01:46:52 AM Last Edit: February 16, 2025, 12:26:27 PM by Christo
It's official. After 48 years, my favourite composer has to give up the lead position. He wouldn't mind: she was his favourite 'pupil' and he - two generations older than her anyway - could only 'teach' her two things. One: to always follow her own path (if anyone ever did, then her). And two: he had liberated the British musical atmosphere from too much 'Teutonic heaviness' (if anyone filled her lungs with that free air, then her.) My all-time favourite composers as of now are:
1921-1999 Ruth Gipps (UK)
1872-1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams (UK)
1946-         Pēteris Vasks (Latvia)
1909-1996 Vagn Holmboe (Denmark)
1905-1982 Eduard Tubin (Estonia)
                   Still first tiers, second row:
1835-1921 Camille Saint-Saëns (France)
1840-1893 Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia)
1841-1904 Antonín Dvořák (Bohemia)
1854-1928 Leoš Janáček (Bohemia/Czecho-Slovakia)
1860-1911 Gustav Mahler (Bohemia)
1862-1918 Claude Debussy (France)
1863-1937 Gabriel Pierné (France)
1865-1931 Carl Nielsen (Denmark)
1870-1939 Charles Tournemire (France)
1874-1934 Gustavus von Holst (Gustav Holst, UK)
1875-1937 Maurice Ravel (France)
1876-1946 Manuel de Falla (Spain)
1876-1972 Havergal Brian (UK)
1879-1936 Ottorino Respighi (Italy)
1881-1945 Béla Bartók (Hungary)
1882-1967 Zoltán Kodály (Hungary)
1887-1959 Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil)
1890-1955 Bohuslav Martinů (Czecho-Slovakia)
1892-1981 Hendrik Andriessen (The Netherlands)
1906-1983 Alberto Ginastera (Argentina)
1907-1993 Camargo Guarnieri (Brazil)
1910-1981 Samuel Barber (USA)
1921-2006 Malcolm Arnold (UK)
1930-2017 Veljo Tormis (Estonia)
1932-2021 John Kinsella (Ireland)
1935-         Arvo Pärt (Estonia)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

(poco) Sforzando

#70
February 16, 2025, 06:38:48 AM
Surprised I never saw this thread before. Beethoven of course.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

hopefullytrusting

#71
February 16, 2025, 07:20:59 AM
Schoenberg, but he'll eventually be passed by Tine Surel Lange. :)

San Antone

#72
February 16, 2025, 08:32:42 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 20, 2018, 07:10:22 AMFor me it was a toss up between Debussy and Brahms.  I chose Debussy, but Brahms is a close second and they alternate on a regular basis.

After six years, I still like Debussy and Brahms very much, and their names regularly appear in my top ten list.  But today Leonard Bernstein is the composer whose music I find more rewarding than any other.  And that has been true for 2-3 years.

Of course these snapshots usually reveal changes in my taste. So in another six years, I'm sure another composer will probably replace Lennie.

Lisztianwagner

#73
February 16, 2025, 08:58:32 AM
Wagner.
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

arpeggio

#74
February 16, 2025, 09:05:09 AM
Mahler  ;)

Spotted Horses

#75
February 16, 2025, 09:14:25 AM
Impossible to answer. If I really had to pick one it would be Brahms, but Brahms encompasses a very small fraction of my musical interest.
Formerly Scarpia (Scarps), Baron Scarpia, Ghost of Baron Scarpia, Varner, Ratliff, Parsifal, perhaps others.

hopefullytrusting

#76
February 16, 2025, 09:21:15 AM
Quote from: Spotted Horses on February 16, 2025, 09:14:25 AMImpossible to answer. If I really had to pick one it would be Brahms, but Brahms encompasses a very small fraction of my musical interest.

Indeed, if I was to include "pop", then Schoenberg, my favorite "classical" composer would be 3rd or 4th on that list. :)

Elgarian Redux

#77
February 16, 2025, 10:29:43 AM
After so many years of exploring Elgar's country, reading about him, listening to his music in the garden of the Elgar Birthplace cottage, even following his cycling routes after transcribing them from his own map, I feel intimately acquainted with him like no other composer, and his music elicits a peculiarly personal response. So my answer here has to be Elgar, but I spend a lot more time listening to the work of other composers than I spend on him.

foxandpeng

#78
February 20, 2025, 05:12:00 AM
Quote from: Christo on February 16, 2025, 01:46:52 AMIt's official. After 48 years, my favourite composer has to give up the lead position. He wouldn't mind: she was his favourite 'pupil' and he - two generations older than her anyway - could only 'teach' her two things. One: to always follow her own path (if anyone ever did, then her). And two: he had liberated the British musical atmosphere from too much 'Teutonic heaviness' (if anyone filled her lungs with that free air, then her.) My all-time favourite composers as of now are:
1921-1999 Ruth Gipps (UK)
1872-1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams (UK)
1946-         Pēteris Vasks (Latvia)
1909-1996 Vagn Holmboe (Denmark)
1905-1982 Eduard Tubin (Estonia)
                   Still first tiers, second row:
1835-1921 Camille Saint-Saëns (France)
1840-1893 Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia)
1841-1904 Antonín Dvořák (Bohemia)
1854-1928 Leoš Janáček (Bohemia/Czecho-Slovakia)
1860-1911 Gustav Mahler (Bohemia)
1862-1918 Claude Debussy (France)
1863-1937 Gabriel Pierné (France)
1865-1931 Carl Nielsen (Denmark)
1870-1939 Charles Tournemire (France)
1874-1934 Gustavus von Holst (Gustav Holst, UK)
1875-1937 Maurice Ravel (France)
1876-1946 Manuel de Falla (Spain)
1876-1972 Havergal Brian (UK)
1879-1936 Ottorino Respighi (Italy)
1881-1945 Béla Bartók (Hungary)
1882-1967 Zoltán Kodály (Hungary)
1887-1959 Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil)
1890-1955 Bohuslav Martinů (Czecho-Slovakia)
1892-1981 Hendrik Andriessen (The Netherlands)
1906-1983 Alberto Ginastera (Argentina)
1907-1993 Camargo Guarnieri (Brazil)
1910-1981 Samuel Barber (USA)
1921-2006 Malcolm Arnold (UK)
1930-2017 Veljo Tormis (Estonia)
1932-2021 John Kinsella (Ireland)
1935-         Arvo Pärt (Estonia)

What a great list.

Probably Holmboe if it was a gut reaction.

Maybe DSCH.

Maybe RVW.

Probably Holmboe.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Der lächelnde Schatten

#79
February 20, 2025, 07:30:42 AM Last Edit: February 20, 2025, 07:42:45 AM by Der lächelnde Schatten
Perhaps Mahler, but being more realistic, my favorite composer is usually the one I'm currently listening to whether it be Bach, Handel, Brahms, Debussy et. al. I've come to the realization that there has been far too much marvelous music created that narrowing something or someone down to a list that I know could change at the drop of hat, is, ultimately, a fruitless notion.
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