And your favorite composer is...

I've been majorly digging and gaining appreciation for Olivier Messiaen, Carl Nielsen, Francis Poulenc, Edvard Grieg, Klaus Egge (!!!) and Geirr Tveitt (yay scandinavians) lately.

So no, no ''favorite composer''.. Not favorite composers either: Lately I've come to just revel in the music rather than getting caught up in specific artists. It's great. It's like floating around on a gigantic river of milk... (if you can imagine)

I looove the young Mr. Rubtsov.. He's a composer of much sprightliness. :)

Any significance of the emboldened letters?

In relation to the composers I mentioned earlier.. I recommend everyone check out Klaus Egge's Sonata No. 1 ''the dream ballad''. It's dazzling and full of imagination.. It is as if one can see little trolls elegantly dancing in one moment, and then later on they become marching giants bent on causing destruction and havoc.. :evil: It's on Naxos. You can sample and purchase it there.

You can also find a public domain recording of his second piano concerto here. I haven't begun exploring that particular work yet but it seems really cool. Quite dark and brooding.. powerful with a splice of twilight. (listening to it as I type.. there's an awesome fugue in here)

EDIT: Ok, from listening thrice I can say with confidence that I f*cking adore that concerto. *heads off in search of score*

Any significance of the emboldened letters?

From now on, cool people (composers) get emboldened letters. (or hyperlinks?) 'Tis just a way for me to add something visual to the usually dull, featureless internet text. Does that answer your question, Mark? :toothygrin:

Beethoven

Tchaikovsky

Liszt

Chopin

John Williams

and many more

Yep, I agree with all of those.

Gou Wenjing...just for one piece, Riding on the Wind. You can find it on YouTube.

Ooh, ooh, I love these threads!

Besides rock music (Danny Elfman, Les Claypool, Mark Mothersbaugh), I would have to go with:

Igor Stravinsky. No doubt my favorite.

I'm naming pieces I love here rather than composers in a sense, but here goes:

Sibelius - almost everything he wrote is worth listening to

Vaughan Williams - the 9 symphonies

Poulanc - chamber music. Oh, and his Harpsichord concerto is great fun

Ravel - one of the best string quartets ever imho

Stravinsky - Firebird, who doesn't like that?

Mahler - again, any of his symphonies

Barber - love the violin concerto

Bartok - concerto for orch and music for SPC are great

The three Bs are obviously up there as well.

Without a doubt:

Ludovico Einaudi

His minimalist style is just amazing. Not one tune of his I do not like. :)

MOZART FOREVER!

My favorite composer hands down is Gustav Mahler

his 8th symphony is the best ever made in my opinion

Hard choice, personally my all time favourite is Dr. Stephen Chatman, professor of composotion at UBC. After him, Morten Laurisden and Mia Makaroff.

I would have to say it's between Ibert, Mozart and Glazunov. Oh and Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorsgky is one of the most amazing pieces I have ever heard.

Bach

Bartok

Samuel Barber

Beethoven

John Adams

John Corigliano

Aaron Copland

Peter Mennin

Debussy

Ravel

Joseph Schwantner (big fan of his orchestration)

My favorite composer hands down is gustav mahler, the greatest one of them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmm. If I had to pick a favorite composer...

*holds head, spins in circles, charges up the stairs to his room, has spontaneous tantrum, pulls out hair, destroys everything, runs back downstairs, destroys everything there, crying all the while*

Stephen Shwartz, NO! Gerswin, NO! Frank Wildhorn, NO! Beethoven!

GAHH! I don't have one. I like too many of them!

*holds head, spins in circles, charges up the stairs to his room, has spontaneous tantrum, pulls out hair, destroys everything, runs back downstairs, destroys everything there, crying all the while*

:ermm::horrified::excl:

Impossible to pick just one. However I can pick favorites out of categories.

Favorite : Baroque Composer - Pachabel (Canon in D = fav. baroque piece)

Classical Composer - Beethoven (challenged music with more emotion)

Romantic Composer - Chopin/Liszt (sorry, but it's a tie)

Impressionistic Composer - Debussy

Modern Composer - Rachmaninov(ff)

Film Composer - John Williams

Modern Pop Composer/Artist - Rebecca St. James

:D

Rachmaninov isn't really modern.

Rachmaninov was a Romantic who lived in the Modern era, so I guess he could be considered both Romantic and Modern.

Either Romern or Modantic. ^^

Modern Pop Composer/Artist - Rebecca St. James

Does she compose? I didn't know that.

Anyway, my favorite would be Claude Debussy

Does she compose? I didn't know that.

Anyway, my favorite would be Claude Debussy

He's good! I like all of his piano works (for the most part) :) .

Funny, I'm actually learning his Sunken Cathedral (or whatever it is in french). I like a lot of his works, and he has influenced some of my orchestral style, too.

Rebecca St. James does compose. And the songs that she writes are becoming more original.

Not all of the songs she sings are written by her though.

Since everyone is putting more than one favorite, I guess I'll post again...

Guo Wenjing - Riding on the Wind

Joseph Curiale - anything he's ever written.

Karl Jenkins - Adiemus I - IV, The Armed Man

Jerry Goldsmith - score to The Mummy, and especially The Ghost and the Darkness

Stravinsky - Firebird & Rite of Spring (obvious...)

John Adams - Chairman Dances, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Harmonium, Meister Eckhardt, Christian Zeal and Activity

Ticheli - Sun Dance, Vesuvius, Postcard, and anything similar he will write in the future.

Steve Reich - Eight Lines, Music for 18 Musicians; still checking out his work.

Hm... favorite composers.

Of all time? It's Dvorak. As for composer's that are close seconds:

Bach

Mozart

Hindemith

Beethoven

Haydn

Mahler

Brahms

Man, the list really goes on, too.

Jeez. You ask that kinda of a question you are not guarenteed an answer. Hmmmm...a few that come to mind are Prokofiev, Tschaikowsky, Korsakow, Stravinsky, Bruns and quite possibly Schoenberg. Prokofiev mainly because of the Dance of the Knights, the Gambler, Scythian Suite, 3rd and 7th Symphonies, and War & Peace. Tschaikowsky because of his love of the bassoon and the complexity of his music. Korsakow because of the Flight of the Bumblebee (good show off piece to the uneducated crowd) and Scheherazade as well as Procession of the Nobles (I think). Bruns because of his sonatas for bassoon & Piano as well as his concerti for bassoons and contra. Stravinsky because of the Firebird, Petrushka, Rite and Symphony of Psalms. He's also a goddamn genius. Now Schoenberg is also a genius, but I can only listen to Pierrot Lunaire (which I have garnered a huge respect for) and his first chamber symphony while I'm moping about. I must say when you listen to it, it makes one feel a tad bit better. lol.