Who is the Greatest (Not Favourite) Composer

And where does Brahms fit in? :thumbsup:

Good question.

What I love about brahms is that his pieces have soul. THey have this being in them that is hard to describe that leaves you craving for more and a simple innocence in them that I enjoy very much. He's very different from composers of that era. (though I still greatly dislike, his late clarinet sonata)(maybe someday I will find apreciation for that piece?)

I think this list is missing a very important choice: Schoenberg. Although many people find his music hard to listen to, his innovation definatly makes him one of the greatest. He was the person that liberated dissonance and broke the constraints of tonality. While many of these other composes have done influential things (beethoven espeically), none have done something so essential to their era as the creation of both acceptance of the taboo and a creation of an entire new system of music.

I vote for schoenberg.

Can i vote for two? Schoenberg and Beehtoven.!

Hmm.. I think we all should name the 10 composers we think are the greatest, create an unbiased list out of that and restart this poll. What do you people say to that? It could actually be pretty interesting! :)

Hmm.. I think we all should name the 10 composers we think are the greatest, create an unbiased list out of that and restart this poll. What do you people say to that? It could actually be pretty interesting! :D

That's a fantastic Idea.

He was the person that liberated dissonance and broke the constraints of tonality.

That's why I hate him.

Ha ha.

Thats horrible, greatly dislike I think would work better.

Schoenberg freed me. Its sorta like.... I can have my cake and eat it to.

Beethoven was certainly master of all the forms of music at the time. His symphonies are perhaps the best illustrations of just how much and how far you can get with one idea. Of course Beethoven started as a Classical composer, but died as a Romantic composer bringing forth this new era. Thats really why i think hes the greatest.

Mozart, was a genius. There is nothing you can do to his music to make it stronger or better, it is quite frankly perfectly done. As a matter of fact I heard of a course demonstrating how you can't change any Mozart piece without weakening it.

good points, and i must say, i love your avatar.

Guns of the Patriots? :P

yup ;) . cant wait to get my hand on that one. i wonder what harry gregson-williams will do this time.

nice. sorry to be off topic but is he doing the music for it?

as far as i know, he only wrote the music for the 2nd, and they just used his themes for the third. i could well be wrong tho

To be honest, im not sure if hes doing 4. I was surprised to see that he did The Chronicles of Narnia. I remember in an interview they did with him he talked about the great relationship he was having with the director(head hancho dude) of MGS. So he probably is doing the score for 4. who knows :unsure:

I would just prefer to listen to Vivaldi and smile all day.

No mahler?....sniff sniff sniff....

I wonder why................:O

:D

wow, and before today the thread had been dead over two years. Mercy.

I say Other.

ok, now i imagine being in 22 century, and look back, and no one of course considers mozart or bach or beethoven as no one considers medievial composers now, even shoenberg is forgotten, russians remember shostakovich mainly because of political issues, no one really cares for music that is 4-5 centuries old, human brains have come to be different and people like only noise and other things, but no music.

yeah, beethoven was the greatest.

was.

This poll is a little funny... I mean you are giving me only 10 possible choices out of the numerous composers there are.

Out of the ten, the strikingly obvious choice is Tchaikovsky. Out of the ten no one has had the affect on music as Tchaikovsky had. I would agree that Mozart is the 2nd candidate for best composer. I am mainly considering how mastered their works were and what variety they produced. I'm not looking for someone who went their own route and produced an ending result. Most of the other composers you listed either had too dry and worn of a style or they over complicated their music. The true melodic masters were Tchaikovsky and Mozart, and there is nothing better in music than melodic perfection. Perfection is always absent, but every composer had their own asperations. Most of the composers you have listed thought that Tchaikovsky's or Mozart's music was closest to perfection and pleasing tone.

And is this poll all about romantic composers? Of romantic music the obvious master is Rachmaninoff. And you don't even have him listed! Have you not heard his perplexing realism?

yup :D . cant wait to get my hand on that one. i wonder what harry gregson-williams will do this time.

:whistling:

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and maybe Brahms (realistically he's too underrated but in many's opinion a greater romantic than Beethoven) are only the truly deserving ones up there (whats with Grieg and even Chopin who's rep is most restricted to piano?)...i believe Schoenberg deserves a place next to those 4 names (covering all the major periods of classical) because he's most responsible for reinventing/revolutionizing tonality as we currently know it, among other major contributions

From that list, I'd pick either Bach or Beethoven, but still, these are not all the composers in the world :P

No Strauss or Wagner? Puccini or Verdi? Handel?

I'm taking it you don't listen to opera much...

What about the composers that pre-dated this era?

Where the hell is Verdi?

Pitting composers against eachother? What the hell, what's the use of this?

You know who's the greatest composer? Anonymous. Nobody knows him, but if you hear his music you cry for years, because it's so amazing. In fact, Beethoven cried too, and they're all MOVED to TEARS by its beauty.

And he wrote his music using the UNIVAC I (lol).

What has this to do with repertoire? Bleh.