Pieces You Wished You Had Composed

Anything by Nikolas, QcC, oingo, J.Lee, among others

So so many... but i'd say 1st mov of Mahler's 1st, so organic.

And I supose I wouldn't care some Mehldau's stuff.

The 4 Seasons.

Mahler symphony 8, saint saens symphony 3, and barber adagio for stings

Rite of Spring-Igor Stravinski

Edward scissorhands main theme- Danny Elfman

Hungarian Rhapsody no.2- Franz Liszt

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Among others...

Mahler's Ninth

Messiaen's Quartor pour la fin du Temps

Strauss - Thus Spake Zarathustra

A piece by Jean-Claude Petit for the film(s) "Jean de Florette" and/or "Manon des Sources", I am not sure which one, I never got the full name of the composition when I heard it on "Classic-FM" here.

Dvorak's Symphony no. 9 in E minor

Tears for Fears - Swords and Knives

David Gilmour - Then I Close My Eyes

piano concerto in a minor by Schumann. its the piece of music that actually feels like mine.

Any thing by eric whitacre, or morten lauridsen for all of those in the choral world. I also would have loved to compose finlandia by sibelius.

You're kidding right?

Every other piece of music I hear I wish I wrote something like it. (and often start contemplating doing so)

Anything by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Scriabin, Shostakovitch, Mahler etc

I keep hearing them and going "I want to write something like THAT!!!" lol almost EVERY time I hear something its like that.

The problem is I'll start a composition and then I'll hear a piece of music and get distracted, often permanently. I've found I often need an absence of good music when I'm composing because otherwise I'll keep changing my mind about what I want to compose rofl.

Chris

Still, nada para mi. :/

wish i'd written rhapsody in blue... perhaps i'll start rhapsody in green sooner or later.

who wrote the Schindler's List Main Theme ?

John Williams.

If I had to pick something then Stravinsky's Firebird Suite...

It is just gorgeous on so many levels.

Wow, I find this topic fascinating [not being sarcastic] because I can't think of a time in all of my life when I thought "I wish *I* wrote that."

If I had to pick something then Stravinsky's Firebird Suite...

It is just gorgeous on so many levels.

The pieces I wouldve loved to compose are the ones I havent made yet.

But,if we talk about the work of someone else,I should say:

1.Ghost World Theme-David Kitay

2.I will crumble-Jim Steinman(simple,yet penetrating)

3.Happiness is a warm gun-The Beatles

4.Aquarela-Toquinho

Im sure theres alot more that would

Wow, I find this topic fascinating [not being sarcastic] because I can't think of a time in all of my life when I thought "I wish *I* wrote that."

Lol well the way I understood the question was "What pieces of music do you find so beatutiful/etc that you wish you were responsible for creating such beauty."

Make more sense now? Surely you've had that experience where you listen to something and go "WOW, this is incredible, I really really really want to write a piece of music which is as powerful (Whatever the term you wish to us may be) as this!"

Chris

I'm sure I've already posted in this thread but let me just add Bartok's Piano sonata. I'm not one that is easily impressed with music but something about it just speaks to me. It's highly individual and I don't think I've ever heard anything like it before or since.

At the top of my list would be...

1: Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor

2: Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C Major "Jupiter"

3: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in Eb Major "Emperor"

Actually... Jaws is quite obviously ripped off from the Rite of Spring!

No kidding.

Listen to it from about 3 minutes into the piece... You hear stuff extremely similar in texture, motive, etc

Then, just like John Williams does, Stravinsky has the intense driving rythm sections broken up by heavy use of various chaotic wind pointilistic segments etc.

You just hear it. It seems so obvious that there is a connection.

I don't know whether John Williams was consciously aware of it but it does sound rather similar to me.

Chris

I wish I composed everything from Metal Gear Solid.

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Jurassic Park Main Theme + Welcome to Jurassic Park Theme by John Williams

Canon (I think it's called) by Johann Pachelbel

November Rain by Guns*N*Roses

Weekend in Monaco by The Rippingtons

Lol well the way I understood the question was "What pieces of music do you find so beatutiful/etc that you wish you were responsible for creating such beauty."

That is how I understood the question, too. And my answer remains unchanged. :)

I have no problem acknowledging that Beethoven wrote his own Op.10/2 and not me.