Your FIVE favorite composers.

[Jacob Royal]

Yes, I did say five.
You do not have to say why.
Just put them in order from favorite to fifth favorite.

1. Beethoven
2. Tchaikovsky
3. Frank *EDIT* Franck (sorry, I never spell his name correctly)
4. Liszt
5. Schubert

If your opinions differ (by that I mean if you hate a composer that someone else loves), please be civil in your arguments. That is more of a reminder for me than a request for you :)

 

Since I can still edit my list (hehehehe) I have a new one

1. Beethoven

2. Tchaikovsky

3. Strauss, R.

4. Shostakovitch

5. Barber for his Adagio (I've only heard that one piece by him)/ Mozart (For Sym. 40, Eine Kleine, violin+viola duets, Mass, and Requiem)

HM Liszt

[James Mulvale]

Yeah I agree, it's wonderful I just prefer his minimalist work myself, Harmonielehre, Common Tones in Simple time and Short ride in a Fast Machine. I think these pieces are up there with Prokoviev and Holst, just not so much the operatic ones. They're still brilliant.

Fredrick zinos said:

James

 

Try this  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TcOAMmY8yY&feature=colike

[Doug Lauber]

Oops. I confused Glass with Adams.  Yeah- I love Harmonielehre, Short Ride, and Nixon in China.

[Peter Wiedermann]

@Kane - thanks for sharing these links. I enjoy the sense of momentum in a number of these works. Great stuff - thanks again.

 

[Charles Greco]

Not necessarily my five favorite composers, but the five whose works I listen to the most:

Gabriel Fauré

Aram Khachaturian

Sergei Prokofiev

Maurice Ravel

Sergey Rachmaninov

[Matt Walsh]

Well my list has changed, and since I keep getting freaking email alerts about this thread, I may as well update lol.

 

Victoria

Lassus

Monteverdi

JS Bach

Vivaldi

 

[Ansgar Kreutz]

very good list - I could agree with this but I love Vivaldi but more I like Heinrich Schütz

Matt Walsh said:

Well my list has changed, and since I keep getting freaking email alerts about this thread, I may as well update lol.

 

Victoria

Lassus

Monteverdi

JS Bach

Vivaldi

 

[Jorgi 'Canaeus' D'hondt]

Oh, I know. I'm a particular great fan of his opera Akhnaten among other works, but in the first row of five I mentioned, he wouldn't be in the top 5 for me :-)

Clark Nichols said:

Philip Glass does a lot more than film (listen to his Cello COncerto of 2nd Violin Concerto) Though he did influence many many film composers

Jorgi 'Canaeus' D'hondt said:

I must make a distinction between "Classical composers" (in the classical sense ;-)) and "Film composers" (in the classical sense :-p)

 

Classical:

1. J.S.Bach

2. D. Shostakovich

3. L.v. Beethoven

4. W.A. Mozart

5. Karl Jenkins

 

Film:

1. John Williams

2. Philip Glass

3. Jerry Goldsmith

4. John Barry

5. Thomas Newman

[Caj Ilotuuli]

Just now : 1  Iancu Dumitrescu

2 Gerard Grisey

3 Allan Pettersson

4  Iannis Xenakis

5 Morton Feldman

[Russell Sansom]

1. Mahler

2. Satie

3. Debussy

4. Stravinsky

5. Beethoven

and of course, Gaga

[Santiago Bogacz Morales]

1 - Igor Stravinsky

2 - Steve Reich

3 - Morton Feldman

4 - György Ligeti

5 - Perotin

[Santiago Bogacz Morales]

The best list I saw in the whoel discussion!!!

Caj Ilotuuli said:

Just now : 1  Iancu Dumitrescu

2 Gerard Grisey

3 Allan Pettersson

4  Iannis Xenakis

5 Morton Feldman

[Gav Brown]

1) Yes

2) Chopin

3) Bach

4) Gershwin

5) Ravel