Top 11 Composers of Chamber Music

[kyjo]

In no particular order:

Debussy
Ravel
Bloch
Shostakovich
Dvorak
Schubert
Martinu
Poulenc
Miaskovsky
Novak
Bridge Schumann
Pejacevic Faure

[Brahmsian]

In approximate order:

Brahms
Beethoven
Taneyev
Mozart
Dvorak
Shostakovich
Schubert
Schumann
Haydn
Faure
Tchaikovsky

[Brian]

Coming up with 11 is easy!

Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Schumann
Brahms
Dvorak
Faure
Poulenc
Bruch
Shostakovich

I can eke out a top five in order. Personal favorite list, of course!

1. Dvorak
2. Beethoven
3. Schubert
4. Faure
5. Brahms

Probably my weirdest inclusion is Bruch, but this single CD was enough for me to include him:

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[PaulR]

In no order, just numbered:
1) Beethoven
2) Shostakovich
3) Schubert
4) Haydn
5) Brahms
6) Dvorak
7) Schumann
Mozart
9) Weinberg
10) Schnittke
11) Gubaidulina.

(The last three might have been more "favorite" rather than "top")

[kyjo]

Faure

Check my first post for an amendment......

[kyjo]

(The last three might have been more "favorite" rather than "top")

By "top", I mean "favorite", NOT "greatest"!

[The new erato]

By "top", I mean "favorite", NOT "greatest"!

So I gathered from your list.

[DavidW]

1. Bach
2. Haydn
3. Mozart
4. Beethoven
5. Dvorak
6. Mendelssohn
7. Brahms
8. Faure
9. Bartok
10. Shostakovich
11. Janacek

[PaulR]

By "top", I mean "favorite", NOT "greatest"!

Perhaps you should have said " Favorite 11 Composers of Chamber Music"

[kyjo]

Perhaps you should have said " Favorite 11 Composers of Chamber Music"

Nah, "top" sounds better!

[North Star]

Ravel
Janacek
Brahms
Beethoven
Schubert
Shostakovich
Haydn
Mozart
Bartók
Poulenc
Dvorak

[Mirror Image]

In no particular order:

Shostakovich
Schnittke
Debussy
Ravel
Poulenc
Bartok
Schumann
Koechlin
Martinu
Villa-Lobos
Faure

[kyjo]

Schumann

For the Piano Quintet alone, he earns a spot on my list......

[Mirror Image]

For the Piano Quintet alone, he earns a spot on my list......

Certainly, but he wrote so much other great chamber music.

[milk]

My lists of anything constantly change, but, in no particular order,
Koechlin
Schumann
Schubert
Martinu
Shostakovich
Rameau
Beethoven
Weinberg
Bach
Rameau (just for Pieces de clavecin en concerts)
Buxtehude (for the trio sonatas and because I wanted to see a bit more baroque here)

[TheGSMoeller]

My lists of anything constantly change, but, in no particular order,
Koechlin
Schumann
Schubert
Martinu
Shostakovich
Rameau
Beethoven
Weinberg
Bach
Rameau (just for Pieces de clavecin en concerts)
Buxtehude (for the trio sonatas and because I wanted to see a bit more baroque here)

Rameau is so good he deserves to be listed twice! 

And I agree, I stopped trying to worry about getting my lists accurate because it's likely to change a few months (or hours) down the road.

[vandermolen]

Not in order.

Shostakovich
Bloch
Moeran
Bax (Harp Quintet)
Novak
Miaskovsky
Rubbra
Bliss
Bridge
Rootham
Arnell

[milk]

Rameau is so good he deserves to be listed twice! 

And I agree, I stopped trying to worry about getting my lists accurate because it's likely to change a few months (or hours) down the road.

I wonder about my absentmindedness...if my glasses are on my head I'm likely to be searching the room for quite a while. Hmm...I could stick in CPE Bach for his violin and Viol de Gamba sonatas...No, I'll go with Mendelssohn for his piano trios. 

[Florestan]

In no particular order and subject to change at any time:

Brahms
Haydn
Schumann
Mozart
Beethoven
Corelli
Faure
Francois Couperin
Schubert
Dvorak
Mendelssohn

[vandermolen]

I should have included Debussy and Ravel.

And Vaughan Williams.