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Which five composers do you think have had the most influence on your work? (Yes, I realize there's already a favorite composer thread, but our favorites aren't always the ones that influence us most.)
For me, it's:
1) Johannes Brahms
2) Felix Mendelssohn - mostly for use of counterpoint in a Romantic context in orchestral and chamber music.
3) Ralph Vaughan Williams
4) Alexander Borodin - almost as much for his career choice as for his music, but I do try to draw rhythmic ideas from him.
5) Ernest Bloch - inspired some counterpoint and some harmonic experimentation; the fourth movement of my horn concerto was to some extent a homage to Bloch.
Honorable mention: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - I don't even like his work all that much, but I learned most of my orchestration from his book.
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Andrew Hsieh
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