Who is the best composer of all time? Look inside please!

Originally Posted by Maelstrom

Eh...?

Well maybe...

But Mendelssohn's definitely up there, and his harmonic language/orchestration skills were pretty sweet too.

MENDELSSOHN!!!!!

Johann Sebastian Bach

Those who disagree are just being atheistic.

Johannes Brahms is my top composer. Although I haven't listened to a lot of his music, what I have listened to has moved me and inspired me more than any other composer. With Brahms you can never tell what hes doing until he reveals it to you, and then when you hear it makes more sense than Bach or Mozart. Brahms keeps me on the edge of my seat waiting for every single note (I think I might be obsessed).

Here's a name that hasn't come up much:

Shostakovich.

The nature of this thread means I can take a "my opinion is right" stance and say things that even I disagree with if I over-think them, so huzzah! for this thread's creation!

His 8th String Quartet is probably my favourite piece of music. The emotion is very strong, and the way he uses his signature to tie the piece together is amazing. Wherever the piece is heard, it's really hard not to sit still and just listen. From start to finish, it's all emotion. It's incredibly sad in some parts, and bitterly sarcastic in others. Everything an angsty teenager needs!

Originally Posted by Muzic

Johannes Brahms is my top composer. Although I haven't listened to a lot of his music, what I have listened to has moved me and inspired me more than any other composer. With Brahms you can never tell what hes doing until he reveals it to you, and then when you hear it makes more sense than Bach or Mozart. Brahms keeps me on the edge of my seat waiting for every single note (I think I might be obsessed).

i agree with half of what you said.

hmm looking inside myself and telling who's the best composer?

easy!!

ME! hahah



seriously, the best composer ever is just the one that moves us more than other and tells us what other doesn't, but there's not a true best composer.

they are all great on their own way, in their own time period.

so for me:

the winner of -the best of all time with "ex aequo" - is

MUSIC and THE HUMAN BEING/CREATIVITY

Originally Posted by M_is_D

Madrid, huh?

You Spanish were never the best english speakers.

HAHA

*high fives M_is_D*

Um.. I don't know if its okay to post the TWO best composers in history, but I can't choose one:
F.F. Chopin
J.S. Bach
are both No. 1 for me, although it was a tough choice.