Your Top Ten Favorite Composers

thejew · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:57 pm

Thought we could create a database of everyone's top 10 composers. That way we know a bit more about each other's taste in Classical.

corrections - Sergei Prokofiev; Ludwig van Beethoven; Ralph Vaughan Williams; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Johann Sebastian Bach; Igor Stravinsky; Dmitri Shostakovich; Claude Debussy; Antonin Dvorak; Maurice Ravel

George - Johann Sebastian Bach; Claude Debussy; Sylvius Leopold Weiss; John Tavaner; Robert de Visee; Jan Dismas Zelenka; Frederic Chopin; Josquin Des Prez; Arvo Part; Maurice Ravel

joe c - Maurice Ravel, Gyorgi Ligeti, Ludwig van Beethoven, Krzysztof Penderecki, Arvo Part, Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst, Jean Sibelius, Arthur Honegger

john17 - Johannes Brahms

Mrs17 - Ralph Vaughan Williams; Samuel Barber; Edward Elgar; Franz Schubert; Ludwig van Beethoven; Johannes Brahms

Nick - Gerald Finzi; Johann Sebastian Bach; Edward Elgar; Ralph Vaughan Williams; William Byrd; Antonio Vivaldi; Frederic Chopin; Tomaso Albinoni; Georg Frideric Handel; Edvard Grieg

pauldrach - Johann Sebastian Bach; Claude Debussy; Arvo Part; Maurice Ravel; Franz Schubert; John Dowland; Ludwig van Beethoven; Edvard Grieg; Richard Strauss; Sergei Rachmaninov

pnoom - Johann Sebastian Bach; Arvo Part; Ludwig van Beethoven; Einojuhani Rautavaara; Igor Stravinsky; Claude Debussy

thejew - Igor Stravinsky; Johann Sebastian Bach; Sergei Prokofiev; Frederic Chopin; Franz Liszt; Richard Wagner; Antonin Dvorak; Sergei Rachmaninov; Felix Mendelssohn; Georg Friedrich Handel

whelana4 - Alexander Scriabin, Frederic Chopin, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Anton Webern, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Carlo Gesualdo

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4166

just ten? i'll give it a shot...

1. JS Bach
2. AC Debussy
3. SL Weiss
4. JK Tavener
5. R de Visee
6. E. Whiacre
7. JD Zelenka
8. FF Chopin
9. A Part
10. JM Ravel

joe c · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:35 am **Posts:** 2906

Maurice Ravel, Gyorgi Ligeti, Ludwig van Beethoven, Krzysztof Penderecki, Arvo Part, Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst, Jean Sibelius, Arthur Honegger

whelana4 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:42 pm

Alexander Scriabin, Frederic Chopin, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Anton Webern, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Carlo Gesualdo

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14795

1. Sergei Prokofiev
2. Beethoven
3. Vaughan Williams
4. Mozart
5. JS Bach
6. Stravinsky
7. Shostakovitch
8. Claude Debussy
9. Antonin Dvorak
10. Maurice Ravel

Only the top 3 are certain. The rest is a bit of a rough guess afterwards.

john17 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:24 pm

Well I'd have to put Brahms #1 after all the fanboying I've done here. I don't know how to fill out the rest of the list. Maybe I'll come back to it later

Nick · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:34 pm

Finzi, JS Bach, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Byrd, Vivaldi, Chopin, Albinoni, Handel, Grieg

Off the top of my head and not particularly in order although the first 7 are more firm favourites than the last 3 probably.

Mrs17 · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:19 pm **Posts:** 1023

Vaughan Williams, Barber, Elgar, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms are the ones I feel comfortable listing right now. I feel like I'm still discovering so much music. I just barely started to listen to Finzi, and what I've heard I've loved. I need to listen to more Sibelius because I think he would be another favorite.

Nick · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 4:38 pm

Mrs17 wrote:

I just barely started to listen to Finzi, and what I've heard I've loved.

What have you heard so far?

Mrs17 · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:19 pm **Posts:** 1023

Nick-ola wrote:

Mrs17 wrote:

I just barely started to listen to Finzi, and what I've heard I've loved.

What have you heard so far?

Discovered through some reading up on Vaughan Williams that Finzi was a huge fan the poetry of Thomas Hardy (one of my favorites) so I have been trying to track down some of his compositions where he put poetry to music. Loved his adaptation of one of my favorite Wordsworth poems, "Intimations of Immortality". His eclogue for piano and strings is absolutely gorgeous.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5089

Johann Sebastian Bach ; Arvo Pärt ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Einojuhani Rautavaara

Only composers I know well enough at the moment.

pauldrach · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 5:08 pm

For now maybe something like this (last three thrown in there to get to ten, I don't really know enough of their work to judge them properly):

Johann Sebastian Bach; Claude Debussy; Arvo Pärt; Maurice Ravel; Franz Schubert; John Dowland; Ludwig van Beethoven; Edvard Grieg, Richard Strauss; Sergei Rachmaninov

Nick · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 6:17 pm

Mrs17 wrote:

Nick-ola wrote:

Mrs17 wrote:

I just barely started to listen to Finzi, and what I've heard I've loved.

What have you heard so far?

Discovered through some reading up on Vaughan Williams that Finzi was a huge fan the poetry of Thomas Hardy (one of my favorites) so I have been trying to track down some of his compositions where he put poetry to music. Loved his adaptation of one of my favorite Wordsworth poems, "Intimations of Immortality". His eclogue for piano and strings is absolutely gorgeous.

Yes the eclogue is my favourite piece of his. I have Intimations of Immortality on cd if you want a copy. Finzi wrote lots of songs to verses from poems besides Intimations of Immortality and again, pretty sure we've got them all on cd here if you want a copy. Eg:

Mrs17 · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:19 pm **Posts:** 1023

Fantastic. Yes please!

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4166

Nick-ola wrote:

Byrd

nick, you are one of the great men of our time. it is as simple and obvious as that.

may i ask, what are you favorite albinoni works?

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