And your favorite composer is...

Originally Posted by CaltechViolist

Heard all those pieces, hated them all...

to each his own

My favourites are the Russian composers:

1) Tchaikovsky
2) Rachmaninov
3) Rimsky Korsakov

I also like some of Gustav Holst's music like the St Paul Suite (especially the ostinato), and Jupiter- Bringer of Jollity.

By the way have you heard of Bartok's Mikrokosmos pieces for piano ( not sure of spelling), they are less avant garde. His violin concerto 3rd movement is quite nice, at the start.

Zappa

My favorite composer !? ... let's see it by period.

Antiquity : Mesomedes
Early medieval : let's say Anonymus as a joke here ! or Gregorian chant.
Late medieval : Guillaume de Machaut
Renaissance : Don Carlo de Gesualdo
Baroque : Rameau by far !
Classical : Haydn
Romantic : Wagner
Modern : Stravinsky
Contemporary : (ahaha... me?)... Claude Vivier

hmmm.
Borodin.
Holst.
John Williams
Stravinsky
Brian Balmages.
Robert W. Smith.

that's about it.

My favorites, in order of greatest to least:

Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Prokofiev
John Williams
Mendelssohn
Brahms
Stravinsky

All I can think of right now.

Oh man, it's gonna take for ever to check out all these composers, but I'll do it!

Anyways, I was shocked but very happy to see someone else say Nobuo Uematsu! I'm in the same boat as you dude!

One game with incredible music (and also my favorite game of all time because otherwise it's an excellent game) that very few people know about is Brigandine (Playstation 1) (ebay's your only chance, it'll cost about $30-$40 + shipping) (if you want to learn more come to the Brigandine www.gamefaqs.com forum, I'm over there too). As of now at least, Nobuo's also my favorite composer!

I'm afraid to list any others of mine because the only ones I've known so far were Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and Nobuo.

Originally Posted by robinjessome

Fair enough, I just mean to say his music is not the most creative, interesting, challenging...you get the picture

I think I'd have to disagree... I'm not a saxaphonist, so I can't say anything about it being challenging, but some of his more known pieces 'Mr. Magic, Winelight' are pretty creative and very interesting to me. I realize this site is more centered around classical music, but I use the term 'composer' a little bit more loosely here.
Besides, I like listening to stuff written by people who are still alive. (I know he's dead, but I can dream, can't I?)

I forgot to add Korn to the list.


...Just kidding.

~Kal

Berlioz
Beethoven
Mozart
Stravinsky (I LOVE some of his pieces and can't stand others, so I just put him here for his pieces I love )
Mendelssohn
Poulenc
Rossini

1- John Williams
2- Nobuo Uematsu
3- Jim Brickman
4- Richard Clayderman
5- Pewter Illych Tchaikovski
6- T. Oesten
7- Myself