Who is the Greatest (Not Favourite) Composer

yup . cant wait to get my hand on that one. i wonder what harry gregson-williams will do this time.

nice. sorry to be off topic but is he doing the music for it?
as far as i know, he only wrote the music for the 2nd, and they just used his themes for the third. i could well be wrong tho

To be honest, im not sure if hes doing 4. I was surprised to see that he did The Chronicles of Narnia. I remember in an interview they did with him he talked about the great relationship he was having with the director(head hancho dude) of MGS. So he probably is doing the score for 4. who knows

I would just prefer to listen to Vivaldi and smile all day.

No mahler?....sniff sniff sniff....

I wonder why................

wow, and before today the thread had been dead over two years. Mercy.

I say Other.

ok, now i imagine being in 22 century, and look back, and no one of course considers mozart or bach or beethoven as no one considers medievial composers now, even shoenberg is forgotten, russians remember shostakovich mainly because of political issues, no one really cares for music that is 4-5 centuries old, human brains have come to be different and people like only noise and other things, but no music.
yeah, beethoven was the greatest.
was.

This poll is a little funny... I mean you are giving me only 10 possible choices out of the numerous composers there are.

Out of the ten, the strikingly obvious choice is Tchaikovsky. Out of the ten no one has had the affect on music as Tchaikovsky had. I would agree that Mozart is the 2nd candidate for best composer. I am mainly considering how mastered their works were and what variety they produced. I'm not looking for someone who went their own route and produced an ending result. Most of the other composers you listed either had too dry and worn of a style or they over complicated their music. The true melodic masters were Tchaikovsky and Mozart, and there is nothing better in music than melodic perfection. Perfection is always absent, but every composer had their own asperations. Most of the composers you have listed thought that Tchaikovsky's or Mozart's music was closest to perfection and pleasing tone.

And is this poll all about romantic composers? Of romantic music the obvious master is Rachmaninoff. And you don't even have him listed! Have you not heard his perplexing realism?

Originally Posted by Vinz R.

yup . cant wait to get my hand on that one. i wonder what harry gregson-williams will do this time.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and maybe Brahms (realistically he's too underrated but in many's opinion a greater romantic than Beethoven) are only the truly deserving ones up there (whats with Grieg and even Chopin who's rep is most restricted to piano?)...i believe Schoenberg deserves a place next to those 4 names (covering all the major periods of classical) because he's most responsible for reinventing/revolutionizing tonality as we currently know it, among other major contributions