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

[Jonathan Chon]

1. Beethoven - The god of music, unrivaled in passion and emotion.

2. Bach - The original master and creator who wrote beautiful melodies.

3. Mozart - A natural born genius, people might dislike him for following convention or being repetitive, but he still wrote beautiful music.

4. Haydn - Although he wrote what was popular at the time, his melodies were cheerful and charming.

5. Tchaikovsky - The best romantic composer, who wrote sweet and emotional melodies.

[Kane Aoki]

Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy)
Koji Kondo (Super Mario)
Joe Hisaishi (Miyazaki's Animation Films)
Sawano Hiyoruki (Iryu)
Yasuharu Takanashi (Naruto Shippuden)

[Ansgar Kreutz]

@Kane: this is very interesting for me, because I´ve never heard of this composers

Kane Aoki said:

Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy)
Koji Kondo (Super Mario)
Joe Hisaishi (Miyazaki's Animation Films)
Sawano Hiyoruki (Iryu)
Yasuharu Takanashi (Naruto Shippuden)

[Kane Aoki]

Hi! Ansgar Kreutz, the First two names mentioned above are the "Two kings of Video Game music in Japan, or In the world?" for me...well in my opinion, and the bottom three are all Japanese Film, and TV composers, here are some of their works.

Uematsu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbX-lBlwNQM&feature=related (FF)
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_4buHR8mWU&feature=related (FF)
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTS56UCCaDU

Kondo-     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTa6Xbzfq1U&feature=related (legend)
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqEfB6IYmE (version1)
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK2ARyVHodY&feature=related (version2)
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6KDg2M1BGM 

Hisaishi-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRpO25HTEo
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIEGfU4x_Qc&feature=related
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCMPUnUD2FQ&feature=related

Hiroyuki-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGpWny29ilA

Yasuharu- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6yWnPuHsns
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJeA0yh4mzw
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j10Vsvn8Ts&feature=related 

Ansgar Kreutz said:

@Kane: this is very interesting for me, because I´ve never heard of this composers

 

[James Mulvale]

1 Holst

2 John Adams (orchestral not operatic)

3 Tchaikovsky

4 Prokoviev

5 Michael Land

[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  https://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.

[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