And your favorite composer is...

1- John Williams

2- Nobuo Uematsu

3- Jim Brickman

4- Richard Clayderman

5- Pewter Illych Tchaikovski

6- T. Oesten

7- Myself

I'm seeing the name John Williams way too much.

And Berlioz, common now, he's not that great!

As for me...

Handel

Mozart

Mendelssohn

Dvorak

Puccini

Vaughn-Williams

I never said that.

The thread specifically says FAVORITE composer, not THE GREATEST.

And I like Berlioz's music alot because it makes me feel something that no other music can.

My fav composers are Koji Kondo, then Puccini, then Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Verdi, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Stravinsky.

hmm. i forgot to mention koji. i love mario/zelda music, they're so fitting!

hmmm.....it's hard for me to pick a favorite or put them in order....

but for opera I'd say it's Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Mozart, Donizzeti (though I haven't heard many works by him), and Wagner.

For piano it's a close tie between Schubert, Chopin, and Beethoven, with Mozart close behind.

For everything else there's still Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart, along with Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Mahler.

I guess those are my favorites, though I love all music, really :D. I simply have more of those CDs right now and have heard more of their music :wub:...

Brahms or Tchaikovky hands down.

Vivaldi

well, for personal reasons, and my first inspiration when i was younger and till today is Franz Schubert...

i can

I am shocked and appalled that so few have said Bach! Listening to the Art of Fugue (IMHO) is like getting stuck into a hearty Christmas dinner. Other personal favourites: Shostakovich, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Balada, Purcell, Gilbert and Sullivan (:) ) and the inimitable Buxtehude.

I am shocked and appalled that so few have said Bach!

And I'm shocked and horridly appalled by this statement.

I'm going to add Saint-Saens and Scriabin to my list.

I am shocked and appalled that so few have said Bach! Listening to the Art of Fugue (IMHO) is like getting stuck into a hearty Christmas dinner.

I don't like Christmas dinners... :P

You don't like many other good stuff either. Like sexual pleasure and Ligeti.

And I'm shocked and horridly appalled by this statement.

I'm going to add Saint-Saens and Scriabin to my list.

But I thought everyone liked Bach... :P I totally agree with Saint-Saens, though... esp. the Danse Macabre, the Suite Algerienne, 3rd Symph....

i love Bach.

i love Bach.

:P :P :D

Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Rachmaninov! In no particular order

It's interesting that Shostakovich is so liked by everyone... He's kind of pushed aside because of the so called "avant-garde" movements.. A shame of course.

My favourite composers, in a roughly chronological form:

Gesualdo, Palestrina, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Penderecki, Ligeti, Schnittke, Gorecki, Rochberg, Reich, Ades.

Intersting you like Gesualdo

I imagine that ur impressed by his expressive and very chromatic pieces, considering that he was from the renaissance period.

I would choose Josquin Deprez in that case :P

Hm..

I can't really say.

Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin, Vivaldi and Morricone (in no particular order)

Of course, there are always pieces I love from other composers, such as the gurre-lieder by schoenberg, bartok's concerto for orchestra, stravinsky's symphony of the psalms etc etc :P

Tschaikovsky or Dvorak!

Vivaldi Bach Corelli

In that order

Tough question. I'm a total sucker for big Romantic sound, So my favourites right now would probably be Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and also Stravinsky (what's not to like about him?) ;)

Stravinsky (what's not to like about him?) ;)

Just off the top of my head, Elegy for Two Trumpets.

Never heard of that one, but it sounds good! (I play trumpet)^^

Never heard of that one, but it sounds good! (I play trumpet)^^

It's interesting. It isn't really bad, it's just odd.