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« Reply #50 on: May 11, 2008, 01:16:38 PM »
Mahler.
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« Reply #51 on: May 11, 2008, 02:35:10 PM »
Quote from: Essyne on May 11, 2008, 01:16:38 PM
Mahler.
Personally, I've never really felt anything when listening to his music.  He uses some interesting color, but it all just gets monotonous without clear thematic material or direction.
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For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)
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« Reply #52 on: May 11, 2008, 07:25:44 PM »
Quote from: dnephi on May 11, 2008, 02:35:10 PM
Personally, I've never really felt anything when listening to his music.  He uses some interesting color, but it all just gets monotonous without clear thematic material or direction.

I would beg to differ, especially after seeing a performance of his Das Lied von der Erde last night. It was a highly emotional piece, especially in the massive last movement, where feelings of regret and anguish are expressed in many different ways, particularly in the innovative orchestration.
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« Reply #53 on: May 11, 2008, 07:47:46 PM »
I could listen to Mahler for all of Eternity. I just get lost in His World. Words can't even explain how Capitivating the Music is. Lol - my Mother told me that whenever I listen to him I just sit there the entire time with this crooked smile on my face. It's just . . . Dizzying.
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« Reply #54 on: May 12, 2008, 01:56:36 AM »
Scelsi, Sciarrino, Finnissy, Xenakis, Rzewski, Ligeti.  I listen to a lot of stuff but always come back to these.
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« Reply #55 on: July 14, 2008, 09:08:40 PM »
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Debussy
Ravel
Prokofiev

Not to say I enjoy pieces exclusively from these composers, but these are the ones I enjoy most uniformly. As for an absolute favorite... it generally varies between Bach, Mozart and Debussy.
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« Reply #56 on: July 16, 2008, 05:16:22 PM »
First is an absolute tie between Liszt and Gershwin (different styles, but still great composers), then:

Chopin
Alkan
Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
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« Reply #57 on: July 19, 2008, 12:12:43 AM »
there is a reason no one plays Roslavets
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« Reply #58 on: July 19, 2008, 12:53:35 AM »
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there is a reason no one plays Roslavets

Yeah. That reason is that he wrongfully suffered from the tyrannical regime that was under Stalin. Many of his works were lost and his name was purged from history books. For this reason he was all but forgotten until now. It is time that more people play this marvelous composer's work.
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« Reply #59 on: July 19, 2008, 07:19:28 AM »
I think it's because he didn't write an etudes set that we could call Roslavetets.
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« Reply #60 on: July 19, 2008, 06:12:07 PM »
Quote from: dnephi on July 19, 2008, 07:19:28 AM
I think it's because he didn't write an etudes set that we could call Roslavetets.

Why would you want to do that? And his set of 3 etudes is very good, by the way. Extremely hard though.
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« Reply #61 on: July 19, 2008, 06:27:34 PM »
Hanz Zimmer
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« Reply #62 on: August 22, 2008, 10:15:35 PM »
Quote from: beethoven2 on January 07, 2007, 09:18:46 PM
TOP 3:

First: Beethoven
Second: Chopin
Third (changes quite frequently): Liszt

i have the same 3  1st beethoven,2nd chopin,third liszt
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« Reply #63 on: September 03, 2008, 03:22:53 PM »
in no particular order

Brahms
Schumann
Beethoven
Mahler
Wagner
Shostakovich
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« Reply #64 on: September 06, 2008, 08:44:18 AM »
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If you love him THAT much you'd have known his first name is "Hans". Smiley

My top three are Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart, with favourite contemporary composer going to Nobuo Uematsu.
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