Classical.Rocker Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Mendelssohn, Telemann, Rameau, Scarlatti =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afrodit_xy Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 J.S.Bach - Brahms - Elgar - Borodin & ... ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_is_D Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 My fav composers are Koji Kondo, then Puccini, then Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Verdi, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Stravinsky. Hmm... that was almost two years ago. K first of all, Kondo is rly unique and has some of the most memorable melodies ever (part of me liking him a lot comes from childhood nostalgia as well), but what he's done just can't compare to other 'serious' works. I like over the top, melodramatic, bittersweet, italian and hungarian/gypsy influenced music, and I don't care if people call my musical tastes simplistic. Give me Italian opera any time - Traviata's dramatic, heartwrenching second act, Butterfly's suicide scene, all the scenes with Iago in Verdi's Otello. Throw all your Wieniawski and Sarasate at me with their awesome violin portamento ear candy. If those guys are shallow, you can start calling me Blond Teenage Bimbo. Even Brahms can sometimes sound cold to me next to those guys. And of course, Paganini. The second concerto blows (except the third movement) but the fourth is decent (especially the second movement) and the first and fifth concertos are awesome pieces of melodrama (the fifth only in the orchestration that comes with the Accardo version). 'oooh, it sucks, it's simplistic non-polyphonic music.' I'll be taking a dump on the carpet the day I care about stuff like that. Achrom's Hebrew Melody, as performed by Josef Hassid, is about as far as feeling can go in music, to my ears. Screw Mahler and his pompous orchestrations - I only really like it in the concert hall for the aural effect. I'd rather just take his Adagietto from the 5th symphony. Wagner would be better if he understood the concept of pace, and decent libretto writing. The Tanh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodelkovzart Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Mendelssohn, Telemann, Rameau, Scarlatti =) im just wondering why Mendelssohn is so special that he pops up as the only non-baroque composer. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ananth Balijepalli Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Because Mendelssohn was the champion of Bach's music. And because he is an indisputable beast and my most favoritest composer now. Beethoven has become number 2. And no.. I'm not going to cite his Violin Concerto in E minor as my reason. Rather, his 3rd, 4th and 5th symphonies along with his newly discovered Piano Concerto in E minor and his F minor string quartet are the main reasons. Oh yeah.. and I am completely addicted to Schumann's Violin Concerto (which receives so little attention compared to its beauty). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodelkovzart Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Because Mendelssohn was the champion of Bach's music. RIGHT! why havent i thought of that!:P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorPangloss Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Easily any of the Russians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lex. Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I don't have a single favourtie...but rather a number of favourites that swing in and out of favour. They include: Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, to name a few. But at the moment, Chopin wins hands down...this will change in a few weeks I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodelkovzart Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 just wondering, do you guys like a composer because his music is brilliant, or because you just love the sound of his music and it's style? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinjessome Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 just wondering, do you guys like a composer because his music is brilliant, or because you just love the sound of his music and it's style? The latter. Brilliance means nothing if the music doesn't sound good. I'll take a powerful but simple piece over a brilliantly complex one any day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_is_D Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 The latter.Brilliance means nothing if the music doesn't sound good. I'll take a powerful but simple piece over a brilliantly complex one any day. Amen! Can't stand the people that say my musical tastes are 'ordinary and simple'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendell.R.F.93 Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 John Williams. Clint Mansell. Hans Zihmmer? Is that how you spell it? Howard Shore. Stevie Wonder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nirvana69 Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Hans Zihmmer? Is that how you spell it? Hans Zimmer, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew17 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I love both Scott Joplin and Antonin Dvorak but they are very different so I have a hard time picking between them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick23 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Claude Debussy, Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfbinh Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Sergei Prokofiev. yeah man!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy1044 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I can't pick just one...so "Classical" Guys: Rachmaninoff Berlioz Stravinsky Richard Strauss Bruckner Prokofiev (Pre-Frightened of Stalin) Debussy Film Music: Goldsmith Hermann Tyler Shore Hisaishi Bernstein Newton Howard Elfman Poledouris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_is_D Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 You didn't specify the Strauss (though judging by your other choices I assume it's Richard.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy1044 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Fixed. Yeah. Ever since I heard Salome I've been a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassoonism Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I would have to say vivaldi as my favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thatguy Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 ||Nikolas Sideris|| Robin Jessome - trombonist, composer, improvisor Dos Blanc Accueil These guys are awesome too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferkungamabooboo Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 current obsession is hildegard of bingen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinjessome Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 HAHAHA... TG, :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Dave Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Ives and Mussorgsky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon of Musiq Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Dear god I'll be up all night. Ben Britten, Prokofyev, Toru Takemitsu, Bela Bartok, Arnold Schonberg, Igor Stravinsky, Aleksandr Skryabin, Ludwig van Beethoven, J. S. Bach, Gustav Mahler, Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikowsy, Camille Saint-Saens, Olivier Messiaen, Tan Dun, Karol Szymanowski, Arvo Part, Gyorgy Szandor Ligeti, Krzyzsztof Penderecki, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Anton Webern, Paul Hindemith, Andre Jolivet, Sofia Gubaidulina, Richard Strauss, Kalevi Aho, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Modest Mussorgsky, Alban Berg, Bohuslav Martinu, Iannis Xenakis, Leoš Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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