Favourite Composer(s)?

J.s bach, i admire him for both his music and hard work. He wrote organ and choral music for the church, chamber music for court use and harpsichord works for teaching the instrument. They are all great works! :wacko:

I skimmed over these posts and it is amazing to me that no one put Beethoven/Mozart... Either way, I'll add them to my list, even though I am reluctant to make a list because so many composers have one or two pieces that I consider masterpieces, so it is a shame to leave them off. However when I am asked, I usually generalise to hell and say:

Beethoven

Mozart

Puccini

Chopin

Grieg

It hurt doing that, but there it is... sigh. :P

Am I the only person who likes Malcolm Arnold?

Heh heh. Personally my top faves are Nobuo Uematsu (yes, videogames!), Yoko Kanno, John Williams, Holst, and George Gershwin. I have an interesting plethora of composers don't I?

Oh wow, I have so many favorites :cool:

I love Stravinsky! I have a 2 CD set that I listen to in my car all the time. I also really dig Frank Ticheli and David Holsinger (band nerd here) and of course my idol, John Williams.

Mozart, Mozart and... Sousa--I mean Mozart.

Originally posted by compy-green@Sep 3 2005, 06:24 AM

Oh wow, I have so many favorites

Am I the only person who likes Malcolm Arnold?

Nope! I have enjoyed his Symphonies for some time, though I've had some difficult managing to get more than a handful on CD.

this just in: Dutilleux! Zorn! Twining!

I'm so obsessed with Ravel it's funny :D . My lecturers know to expect Ravel assignments whenever it's a free choice now :P . The essay that I'm working on at the moment is about the use of imagery in Ravel's works, and how much it draws on imagery in earlier music.

Oh, and my violin is named Maurice :blink:

My favorite composers are:

- J. S. Bach

- Fredrick Chopin

- Gy

At the moment I'm a bit obsessed with Rachmaninov and Scarlatti! :D

My favorite composer is Ray Charles. Cause he didn't let his disablity stop him.

cough*beethoven...

my favourites are mozart, beethoven, chopin, mendelssohn, and maybe a couple of other less favs.

bach, schumann, haydn are all good as well imo.

i just really think mozart is underrated.

people hear the name mozart and then automatically go

'omg mozart is way too happy for me. no 'classical' music can match the tortured pain of my soul'

etc etc etc.

it's bullshit.

cough*beethoven...

my favourites are mozart, beethoven, chopin, mendelssohn, and maybe a couple of other less favs.

bach, schumann, haydn are all good as well imo.

i just really think mozart is underrated.

people hear the name mozart and then automatically go

'omg mozart is way too happy for me. no 'classical' music can match the tortured pain of my soul'

etc etc etc.

it's bullshit.

Really? The Requiem Mass doesn't do it for them?

Most of my favorite composers aren't classical, I'm in too all music equally, really. Classically, I enjoy Mozart alot, I suppose, along with Bach and Bach Jr (don't torture me for calling him that). My favorite composers of all time, however, will forever be Luca Turilli, Alex Staropoli, and Bjorn Lynne, just because.

Um, which Bach Jr? There were a bunch of them!

Oh ya! Well, all of the composing ones, really. I can never remember which one is which.

Originally posted by Lord Sorasen@Oct 6 2005, 03:02 AM

My favorite composers of all time, however, will forever be Luca Turilli, Alex Staropoli, and Bjorn Lynne, just because.

hehe... where we go with rhapsody again... did you hear lots of the romantic composers then? since Alex Staropoli does a lot of varitions on the temes by famous composers such as Dvorak and Vivaldi. did you hear the originals?

Really?

most people who make judgements like that have no idea of mozart's musical output imo. they think his entire works consist of eine kleine nachtmusik.

and again, of course, the piece isnt great, it just has a charming tune (according to them). so they wouldnt have heard the requiem.

anyway this is all hypothetical and all ranting..

im sure alot of people have a similar although opposite view of beethoven.

that all his music is sad all the time. which, from what i've heard, it's really not.

My first impression of mozart (when i was very young of course) is that he is always jolly, and of beethoven was that he is mostly sad. these are the overall impressions most people get when they listen to their most "popular" pieces (eine kleine nachtmusik, clarinet concerto for mozart and fur elise, pathetique sonata or fifth symphony for beethoven). Of course only those who know anything about music must know that a human mind has a lot of diferent emotion, and almost all of them will be recorded as music (so we can't give an overall to a composer).

No no no... Your on the COMPLETELY wrong track here guys. You aren't seeing that Mozart and Beethoven didn't use LYRICS. People who say crud about "The Darkness of my Soul" are completely binded to lyrics they can relate to. They aren't really listenning to the actual music. This is the idea in Hard Rock and Metal.

And yes, I'm in a band, 3 bands, actually, I've played alot of romantic era music. Sure, Alex Staropoli uses varietys of popular music alot, but its not the same as the originals, even if it is a variation.

My favorite classical composers are Chopin and Debussy. Their music has some kind of exotically magical quality to it that strikes me a certain way (especially Debussy: Girl With the Flaxen Hair and Reverie *_*). Some of the most beautiful music I've heard so far has been from these two.

And, my favorite video game composer is Motoi Sakuraba (Star Ocean series, Tales of Symphonia, Valkyrie Profile). Anything from him just sounds brilliant. Then, there's Yasunori Mitsuda (Xenogears, Chrono Trigger/Chross). Their music completely immerses me in the game to the point where I think it's a movie soundtrack.

I'd make Nobuo Uematsu third. He's awesome, but he just doesn't strike me in the same way the others do (except for occasional exceptional pieces, like "To Zanarkand" or "Aeris' Theme").

I am deeply bored with classical/baroque music, frankly i don't listen to Bach, Haydn, or Mozart at all, i find them boring, plus i am only interested in Orchestral music, and i like innovations, which means following the Classical Form, but interpret it loosely, thus my favorite composers are Beethoven, Mahler, Bruckner, Shotakovich, Schubert, of course they are all great symphonists, i like symphonies because it resembles our real world, for the same reason i also like physics a lot, because the workings of the real world is just like a symphony, different particles making different things, in fact our world can be described as a Grand Symphony, and i hope that it is also vice versa, for people like Mahler tried to incoporate everything in his music, and the result is quite extrodinary.

U really haven't heard music, without hearing Mahler, or Shotakovich, Beethoven's symphonies.

I am deeply bored with classical/baroque music, frankly i don't listen to Bach, Haydn, or Mozart at all, i find them boring, plus i am only interested in Orchestral music

U really haven't heard music, without hearing Mahler, or Shotakovich, Beethoven's symphonies.

Sorry, I just find those two statements quite hard to grasp coming from the same paragraph.

(I'm not making the point that Bach, Haydn and Mozart wrote some of the finest orchestral works)