And your favorite composer is...

My favourite composers are Beethoven and Rachmaninoff and followed by Bortkiewicz, Glazunov, Taneyev and Elgar.

Bortkiewicz, Glazunov, Taneyev and Elgar.

Woot, there's a few you don't hear often. Good composers.

Stravinsky and Martinu.

It's interesting that Shostakovich is so liked by everyone... He's kind of pushed aside because of the so called "avant-garde" movements.. A shame of course.

My favourite composers, in a roughly chronological form:

Gesualdo, Palestrina, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Penderecki, Ligeti, Schnittke, Gorecki, Rochberg, Reich, Ades.

Im more of a Nobuo Uematsu person since im aspiring to be a video game composer.
1.nobuo uematsu
2.yasunori mitsuda
3.yoko shimomura
4.hitoshi sakamoto
5.john williams

*points to avatar*

Well this is rather dumb; John Williams is in a league of his own out of these fellows. Their pieces are nice and all but they don't hold a candle to most of Williams' work. Not even dear Nobuo, though he is a great composer.

I like...

David Holsinger
Eric Whitacre
Herbie Hancock
Stravinsky (who doesn't?)
Grover Washington Jr.
Just to name a few...

Songjun, the first few composers you named sound like car manufacturors. You're third choice should've been Toyota or something...

Well, here they are, just a few of the heavies

Carla Bley

Also,
Kenny Wheeler
Charles Mingus
Ornette Coleman
Tom Waits
John Coltrane
Prokofiev
John Zorn
...

*Edit*
Just noticed Keerakh Kal Keerakh Kal's Grover Washington Jr....
He's not exactly known as a composer...just seems like a slightly odd choice. Maybe I'll check him out a bit more. Mostly seems to be smooth-jazz, although much more creative than Kenny G, still not pure genius either...

'tis a tie between the great Ludvig van and Joe Hisashi. And Alfred Schnittke...