Your Five (or so) Favorite Composers

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hopefullytrusting

#20
March 17, 2025, 05:29:31 AM
Currently,

Reich
Ligeti
Johnston
Schoenberg
Brahms

ChamberNut

#21
March 17, 2025, 05:43:05 AM
Roughly

Shostakovich
Dvořák
Bruckner
Tchaikovsky
Penderecki
Formerly Brahmsian, OrchestralNut and Franco_Manitobain

DavidW

#22
March 17, 2025, 06:17:58 AM
Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Schubert
Mahler

Bruckner fell off my list (he is #6) because I've been listening to Schubert a lot more these days. Chamber music, symphonies, masses, solo piano, lieder... you name it. He is a great composer from his early output through his late masterpieces.

Christo

#23
March 17, 2025, 06:42:12 AM
Quote from: Christo on March 17, 2025, 05:07:25 AMTop-5:
1921-1999  Ruth Gipps (UK)
1872-1958  Ralph Vaughan Williams (UK)
1909-1996  Vagn Holmboe (Denmark)
1946-          Pēteris Vasks (Latvia)
1905-1982  Eduard Tubin (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

Florestan

#24
March 17, 2025, 12:55:07 PM
Quote from: Florestan on November 24, 2020, 10:40:06 AMChronologically

Haydn
Mozart
Schubert
Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff

Happy with this list to which I must add Rossini.
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ist die Sache, hahaha,
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Madiel

#25
March 18, 2025, 05:05:29 AM
Nothing like reviving an old thread...

Haydn
Beethoven
Dvorak
Faure

That will do as I don't quite know who would take out 5th, after this it gets messy. Though I might trip and fall into a Holmboe rabbit-hole at any moment.
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Kalevala

#26
March 18, 2025, 05:31:33 AM
Vaughan Williams
Dvorak
Mozart
Janacek
Martinu
Bartok
Shostakovich
Kodaly
Debussy
Ravel
....too many to list depending upon my mood and what I want to listen to!  ;D  ;)

K

foxandpeng

#27
March 18, 2025, 07:59:25 AM
Quote from: Madiel on March 18, 2025, 05:05:29 AMNothing like reviving an old thread...

Haydn
Beethoven
Dvorak
Faure

That will do as I don't quite know who would take out 5th, after this it gets messy. Though I might trip and fall into a Holmboe rabbit-hole at any moment.

Some holes are worth excavating.
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Karl Henning

#28
March 18, 2025, 08:03:47 AM
Rather than hang myself up over whom I'd be leaving out, five composers I always love:
JSB
Haydn
Stravinsky
Prokofiev
Martinů
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
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nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
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Brian

#29
March 18, 2025, 08:12:27 AM
probably, roughly, and chronologically

Haydn
Beethoven
Schubert
Dvorak
Janacek

what's funny is this makes me sound like I listen to almost all music from 1780-1830 or so, but most of my listening is 20th century. it's just that the 20th century was so fragmented and had so many different voices!

Der lächelnde Schatten

#30
March 18, 2025, 08:13:09 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on March 18, 2025, 08:03:47 AMRather than hang myself up over whom I'd be leaving out, five composers I always love:
JSB
Haydn
Stravinsky
Prokofiev
Martinů

I didn't realize that Martinů was so high on your list, Karl. That's great! 8)

foxandpeng

#31
March 18, 2025, 10:58:32 AM
I don't know.

DSCH, Vasks, Tabakov, Pettersson, Holmboe?

Maybe?

RVW, Bax, Tubin, Diamond, Hovhaness?

"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

Christo

#32
March 18, 2025, 11:11:18 AM
So many similar votes here: for RVW, Holmboe, Vasks, even Tubin, Kodály, Diamond, Martinů. I am perplexed!  :)
... 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

André

#33
March 18, 2025, 01:22:04 PM
Quote from: hopefullytrusting on March 17, 2025, 05:29:31 AMCurrently,

Reich
Ligeti
Johnston
Schoenberg
Brahms


Who is Johnston (first name ?) and what makes him worth hearing ? Disc suggestions, please ! 😉

André

#34
March 18, 2025, 01:25:13 PM
Quote from: foxandpeng on March 18, 2025, 10:58:32 AMI don't know.

DSCH, Vasks, Tabakov, Pettersson, Holmboe?

Maybe?

RVW, Bax, Tubin, Diamond, Hovhaness?



🙏

André

#35
March 18, 2025, 01:34:37 PM
I must make 3 different lists, otherwise I'd go nuts.

A list: Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

A' list: Wagner, Bruckner, Brahms, Verdi, Elgar

A'' list: Sibelius, DSCH, Braunfels, Reger, Vaughan-Williams.

With a knife on my throat I'd keep Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Bruckner and Shostakovich. Then I'd pay 30 pieces of silver to GMG's moderators and go hang myself.

ritter

#36
March 18, 2025, 01:39:14 PM
Quote from: André on March 18, 2025, 01:34:37 PM... Then I'd pay 30 pieces of silver to GMG's moderators ....
Do you have my bank details?  ;D 

No need to go through with the last part of your post, though. That would be unnecessary and a real pity, André.
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hopefullytrusting

#37
March 18, 2025, 01:47:41 PM
Quote from: André on March 18, 2025, 01:22:04 PMWho is Johnston (first name ?) and what makes him worth hearing ? Disc suggestions, please ! 😉

Ben Johnston, I would say "the" microtonal composer, and I would say his String Quartets are his benchmark works, but his work for solo piano is also quite lauded.

This is him speaking on his music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slXIOTTYpHY

I have been falling in love with intricate counterpoint, and his works are filled with that. :)

André

#38
March 18, 2025, 03:52:35 PM
Quote from: hopefullytrusting on March 18, 2025, 01:47:41 PMBen Johnston, I would say "the" microtonal composer, and I would say his String Quartets are his benchmark works, but his work for solo piano is also quite lauded.

This is him speaking on his music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slXIOTTYpHY

I have been falling in love with intricate counterpoint, and his works are filled with that. :)

Thanks ! I'll put him on my 'watch list' !

prémont

#39
March 18, 2025, 04:01:39 PM
Somewhat traditionally I consider J S Bach and Beethoven to be the towering figures of the Western music culture,

But as to number 3 and so forth the competition is so tough, that I'm not able to choose anyone.
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