Your Three Favorite Composers

[Mirror Image]

Beethoven
Dvořák


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Honestly, while third place could go to Schubert, Ravel, Janacek, or Sibelius, the truth is that none of those four, or anyone else, has had anything like the influence of my top two so far in life. So I'm gonna do the exact opposite of what everyone does in these polls, and UNDER-report!

Leave it to Brian to be the defiant one! Your two choices stay but your third one, until you can actually pick a composer, falls on deaf ears.

[Bogey]

I am surprised Chopin hasn't broken through yet.

[springrite]

The first two are easy: Bach and Mahler


The third one may be any of the following:

Beethoven, Liszt, Medtner, Brahms...

OK, Beethoven it is!

[Mirror Image]

The first two are easy: Bach and Mahler


The third one may be any of the following:

Beethoven, Liszt, Medtner, Brahms...

OK, Beethoven it is!

So Bach, Mahler, and Beethoven are your choices. Seeing a lot of Mahler love, which isn't that unusual. He's certainly an influential and astonishing composer.

[Elgarian]

First two, easy: Elgar and Wagner.

But then ...., oh. I could easily say Handel or Mozart, especially if I were desperately trying to project myself misleadingly as a well-balanced sensible fellow. But I'm going to stick with the sad and truthful image of a weak and soppy old romantic, base the choice on the extreme degree of wear and tear on my CD/DVDs, and go:

Puccini.

[North Star]

Ravel, Janacek & Prokofiev for now

[The new erato]

Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. Not very interesting really, but there it is. The list from no 4 onwards is more interesting.

[kyjo]

I hate to leave 20th century composers out of the equation, but I just have to go with Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Mahler. They have been the composers closest to my heart ever since I started loving classical music.

[Brahmsian]

Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich

They are on the same line.  I consider them my favourite three, equally.

[Sergeant Rock]

My holy trinity hasn't changed in 40 years: Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler.

And since John loves to cheat so much in this type of thread, I'm going to pay him back by announcing my second three: Sibelius, Haydn, Beethoven 

Standby for the next three 

Sarge

[kyjo]

My holy trinity hasn't changed in 40 years: Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler.

And since John loves to cheat so much in this type of thread, I'm going to pay him back by announcing my second three: Sibelius, Haydn, Beethoven 

Standby for the next three 

Sarge

May I join you in cheating, Sarge? My second three: Sibelius, Shostakovich, Bruckner

[The new erato]

My second three: Shostakovich, Handel and Monteverdi.

[Karl Henning]

May I join you in cheating, Sarge?

The question, really, is: What took you, Kyle? 


Thread duty:


Stravinsky, Chopin, Shostakovich


Since three is an impossibly short list, I don't feel I'm "leaving anyone off" (quite a crowd of well-loved composers cannot fit onto the head of that pin); but the three on this list absolutely reign there.

[The new erato]

The question, really, is: What took you, Kyle? 


Thread duty:


Stravinsky, Chopin, Shostakovich


Since three is an impossibly short list, I don't feel I'm "leaving anyone off" (quite a crowd of well-loved composers cannot fit onto the head of that pin); but the three on this list absolutely reign there.

Stravinsky, Chopin and Haydn could well be my next three.....

[Lisztianwagner]

Wagner, Beethoven and Liszt for me.

[71 dB]

First two, easy: Elgar and Wagner.

But then ...., oh. I could easily say Handel or Mozart, especially if I were desperately trying to project myself misleadingly as a well-balanced sensible fellow. But I'm going to stick with the sad and truthful image of a weak and soppy old romantic, base the choice on the extreme degree of wear and tear on my CD/DVDs, and go:

Puccini.

For me the first 2 are easy too:

Elgar
J. S. Bach

The third one then... ...for long Handel has occupied that position but... ...just watched again Giulio Cesare on DVD (yes, that Glyndebourne/William Christie one) and even that ultra-high-quality performance didn't hit me that hard. Maybe I am not in Handel-mood these days but anyway, I need to re-evalute Handel.

Who's gonna take the third position if not Handel? Today my answer is Taneyev.

[DavidW]

Schnittke:

How does a composer that you half hate make it as your favorite?

My four are still Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach.

Stravinsky, Chopin, Shostakovich

But Chopin isn't Russian!

[Christo]

My first choice is still Vaughan Williams, who became a personal favourite in the 1970s, when I was 15. He still is. Second and third choices have differed over time. Today (:-)) they are Tubin and Holmboe.

[Brahmsian]

My holy trinity hasn't changed in 40 years: Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler.

Sarge is still driving the BMW after 40 years! 

[Brahmsian]

Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich

They are on the same line.  I consider them my favourite three, equally.

My next three, as some have done - impossible to come up.  There are probably about 10 composers who could vie for the # 4 spot.

The first 3 were easy.

*Mozart
*Schumann
*Bruckner
*Schubert
*Tchaikovsky

I'd say those are my 'next' favourites, in no order.