August 14, 200817 yr 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
August 15, 200817 yr Mendelssohn, Telemann, Rameau, Scarlatti =) im just wondering why Mendelssohn is so special that he pops up as the only non-baroque composer. :)
August 15, 200817 yr 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).
August 21, 200817 yr Because Mendelssohn was the champion of Bach's music. RIGHT! why havent i thought of that!:P
August 21, 200817 yr 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.
August 28, 200817 yr 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?
August 28, 200817 yr 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.
August 28, 200817 yr 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'.
August 29, 200817 yr John Williams. Clint Mansell. Hans Zihmmer? Is that how you spell it? Howard Shore. Stevie Wonder.
September 1, 200817 yr I love both Scott Joplin and Antonin Dvorak but they are very different so I have a hard time picking between them.
September 1, 200817 yr 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
September 1, 200817 yr You didn't specify the Strauss (though judging by your other choices I assume it's Richard.)
September 4, 200817 yr ||Nikolas Sideris|| Robin Jessome - trombonist, composer, improvisor Dos Blanc Accueil These guys are awesome too
October 11, 200817 yr 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
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