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

[Ansgar Kreutz]

1.Bach
2.Beethoven
3.Brahms
4.Lassus
5.Zwetkoff (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zwetkoff)

and many five other composers like Hadyn, Reger, Debussy, Ravel, Britten, Pärt, Messiaen....

[Kristof J. Weber]

1. John Cage

2. Erik Satie

3. Ferenc Liszt

4. Ludwig van Beethoven

5. Georg Friedrich Händel

(Kár, hogy nem 10 komponistát lehet megjelölni, mert ez esetben megemlítenék neveket: Messiaen, Schönberg, Purcell, Lassus és Hildegard von Bingen)

 

[Anthony Berlin]

Does it have to be classical composers?

 

1. Mozart

2. Prokofiev

3. John Williams

4. James Newton Howard

5. Debussy

 

[Douwe Ziel]

1. Ravel - and not for the Bolero! Daphnis et Chloé, Piano Concerto, Rapsodie Espagnole and so on.

2. Poulenc - His works for voice and piano and his use of chords are magnificent.

3. Stravinsky - Scherzo à la Russe, Russian Dance

4. Prokofiev - Piano Concerto's, Luitenant Kijé

5. Rachmaninoff - Piano Concertos, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

 

Many others of course, including Liszt, Infante, Walton, Suk (Fantastic Scherzo)

And Jaques Brel!

[Ansgar Kreutz]

what is "classical" --- and what not?

Anthony Berlin said:

Does it have to be classical composers?

 

1. Mozart

2. Prokofiev

3. John Williams

4. James Newton Howard

5. Debussy

 

[Ansgar Kreutz]

heaven 1

Ray Kemp said:

Anyone got a postal address for sending the fan mail to the dead composers?

[Anthony Berlin]

Anything from before the 20th century, I guess?

Ansgar Kreutz said:

what is "classical" --- and what not?

Anthony Berlin said:

Does it have to be classical composers?

 

1. Mozart

2. Prokofiev

3. John Williams

4. James Newton Howard

5. Debussy

 

[Ansgar Kreutz]

In classical sense "classical" is everything/one what it important longer than his own life, but what do you think realy, in my opinion Messiaen is "classical" Duke Ellington too

Anthony Berlin said:

Anything from before the 20th century, I guess?

Ansgar Kreutz said:

what is "classical" --- and what not?

Anthony Berlin said:

Does it have to be classical composers?

 

1. Mozart

2. Prokofiev

3. John Williams

4. James Newton Howard

5. Debussy

 

[Jacob Royal]

In technical terms Classical is about 1750-1830

Baroque overlaps for the first ten years, and Romantic for the last 15.

Romantic ends roughly around when WWI begins, Contemporary begins in the 1970s :)

 

Anthony Berlin said:

Anything from before the 20th century, I guess?

Ansgar Kreutz said:

what is "classical" --- and what not?

Anthony Berlin said:

Does it have to be classical composers?

 

1. Mozart

2. Prokofiev

3. John Williams

4. James Newton Howard

5. Debussy

 

[Ansgar Kreutz]

so we can see, that this kind of descriptions isn´t realy helpful 

Jacob Royal said:

In technical terms Classical is about 1750-1830

Baroque overlaps for the first ten years, and Romantic for the last 15.

Romantic ends roughly around when WWI begins, Contemporary begins in the 1970s :)

 

 

Anthony Berlin said:

Anything from before the 20th century, I guess?

Ansgar Kreutz said:

what is "classical" --- and what not?

Anthony Berlin said:

Does it have to be classical composers?

 

1. Mozart

2. Prokofiev

3. John Williams

4. James Newton Howard

5. Debussy