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Title: Favorite composer?
Post by: schrewbie on July 11, 2005, 02:57:19 AM

Ok, I'm new here, so I'm not aware of all the other posts on this topic, so I'll just start my own. Who's your favorite composer? Schumann all the way for me. Grieg second, and louie 3rd.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: Etude on July 11, 2005, 03:06:57 AM

There are several threads already about this.  Here is the most recent.

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,10307.0.html

My favourite composers are Rachmaninov and Sorabji.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: schrewbie on July 11, 2005, 03:16:54 AM

Thank you! I hope I'm not in trouble, I'm new here. I tried using the search thing but I didn't get anything.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: thalberg on July 11, 2005, 03:59:47 AM

Bach.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: Waldszenen on July 11, 2005, 04:54:38 AM

Top 3

1. Brahms
2. Beethoven
3. Mozart

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: jeremyjchilds on July 11, 2005, 05:23:08 AM

Quote from: Waldszenen on July 11, 2005, 04:54:38 AM

1. Brahms



Finally, someone who speaks my mind!!

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Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: larse on July 11, 2005, 06:07:53 AM

I never get any 'favourite' composer...it always change from time to time. So I cannot rank anyone...but right now it might look something like this

Bach
Liszt
Ravel
Beethoven
Shostakovic
Prokofiev
Mozart

 :-\uh...This is hard

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: sevencircles on July 11, 2005, 07:24:29 AM

1. Bach
2. Beethoven
3. Atli Ingolfsson (brilliant composer of modern music)
4. Buxtehude (The most underrated composer in western music)
5. Xenakis
6. Gubaidulina
7. William Lawes (Still unknown and underrated)
8. Sweelink (The grandfather of western virtuoso music)
9. Stravinsky
10. Piazzolla (Love his tangofugues)

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: TheHammer on July 11, 2005, 09:39:21 AM

Beethoven


(in some distance, though the distance is becoming smaller lately)
Mahler, Brahms, Liszt (no order)
Bach, Rachmaninoff and probably (rather a big probably) Schubert


Althoug I am kind of getting into the late-Romantic.modern Russian area right now, so, all this may change the next year.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: 6ft 4 on July 11, 2005, 10:30:48 AM

The Big Three:

Bach
Mozart
Beethoven

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: hazypurple21 on July 11, 2005, 01:36:56 PM

Three way tie:
Bach
Beethoven
Mendelssohn

Honorable Mentions:
Mozart
Rachmaninoff
Chopin
Gershwin
Dvorak
Haydn
Mahler

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: musicsdarkangel on July 11, 2005, 02:10:22 PM

1.  Rachmaninoff (i'm obsessed)
2.  Brahms
3.  Dvorak
4.  Chopin
5.  Beethoven
6.  Ravel
7.  Mendelssohn
8.  Mahler

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: tompilk on July 11, 2005, 03:01:16 PM

My favourite is by a long way Rachmaninoff - i'm also obsessed.  ;D

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: BoliverAllmon on July 11, 2005, 03:04:55 PM

My top composer would be:

Shostakovich
Mozart
Bach
Haydn
Beethoven

no particular order in these. It all depends on the day.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: pseudopianist on July 11, 2005, 06:28:51 PM

1.Liszt
2.Chopin
3.Scriabin
4.Rachmaninov
5.Bach

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: brahmsian on July 11, 2005, 07:29:58 PM

1. Brahms
2. Brahms
3. Brahms
4. Rachmaninoff
5. Scriabin

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: musicsdarkangel on July 11, 2005, 10:24:09 PM

Quote from: tompilk on July 11, 2005, 03:01:16 PM

My favourite is by a long way Rachmaninoff - i'm also obsessed.  ;D

nice!!

welcome to the darkside  :D


Want to know why we're obsessed?


Because he's the god of music.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: Waldszenen on July 12, 2005, 12:03:43 AM

Quote from: brahmsian on July 11, 2005, 07:29:58 PM

1. Brahms
2. Brahms
3. Brahms
4. Rachmaninoff
5. Scriabin

I love your top three mate. ;)

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: mikeyg on July 12, 2005, 12:14:58 AM

1. Liszt
2.John Carey
3. Rachmaninov

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: massi on July 12, 2005, 12:20:46 AM

Rachmaninoff,scriabin,dedussy,liszt,chopin

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: Floristan on July 12, 2005, 12:56:38 AM

1. Brahms
2. Beethoven
3. Chopin
4. Debussy
5. Ravel
6. Rachmaninoff
7. Schubert
8. Schumann
9. Bach
10. Wagner

Except for the first two, the order is arbitrary.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: jehangircama on July 18, 2005, 04:07:53 PM

Chopin : have you'll heard the fantasie in F minor?

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: da jake on July 20, 2005, 08:05:24 PM

1. Alkan
2. Liszt/Scriabin
3. Schubert

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: Aziel on July 20, 2005, 08:09:33 PM

Liszt, Franz // Chopin, Frédéric

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: jim_24601 on July 20, 2005, 08:36:12 PM

Given that this is piano forum ... Big 3:

Bach
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff

3 not quite so big as the big 3, but still pretty big:

Chopin
Brahms
Mendelssohn

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: vaiva on July 21, 2005, 06:44:45 AM

1. Prokofjev
2. Grieg

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: burstroman on July 23, 2005, 05:03:01 AM

Bach
Mozart
Schubert

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: allthumbs on July 23, 2005, 06:28:30 PM

Greetings

Beethoven by far - and not just for his piano music. His symphonic music is so powerful, moody and awe inspiring, The Eroica, The 5th Symphony for examples, - gives me goosebumps when I listen to these monumental works.

It is all the more amazing when you consider that alot of his later works were composed when he was totally deaf and only could "hear" what he had written in his head.

Cheers ;D

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: shenting on July 24, 2005, 08:29:51 AM

Rach, Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: Bouter Boogie on July 25, 2005, 12:06:34 PM

Gershwin and Scriabin are my favorites at the moment :)

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: sevencircles on July 25, 2005, 02:28:25 PM

Allthumbs: Check out https://www.unheardbeethoven.org/search/search.pl?piece=woo62gp1.mid. The first part of a never performed String Quintet Beethoven worked on when he died.

Watch out for the fugato movement in the middle. That has to the best Fugato I have ever heard including anything by J.S. Bach.

I tried to transcribe it for piano but the amount of handindependence it takes to play
it was simply to much for me.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: jz_rach2 on July 25, 2005, 09:02:02 PM

i'm new too, at pianoforum
my top fav composer is Rachmaninoff, love him for his piano concerti
2nd is Chopin, love him for his piano musc
3rd is Debussy, his music is just beautiful
also 3rd is Beethoven, love him for his symphonies and piano sontatas and everything
4th is Bach, he's a God
5th is Mozart
6th is Liszt, love him for his Un Sospiro (is anyone playing that?)
7th is Handel, his Messiah touches souls
8th is Tchaikovsky, his violin and piano concerti rock
.......etc........ ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: al on July 25, 2005, 09:31:30 PM

In no particular order:

Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Schumann
Scriabin
Medtner

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: piazzo23 on July 26, 2005, 03:09:50 AM

1. Rachmaninov
2. Prokofiev
3. Bartók
4. Scriabin
5. Brahms

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: allthumbs on July 28, 2005, 09:05:56 AM

Quote from: sevencircles on July 25, 2005, 02:28:25 PM

Allthumbs: Check out https://www.unheardbeethoven.org/search/search.pl?piece=woo62gp1.mid. The first part of a never performed String Quintet Beethoven worked on when he died.

Watch out for the fugato movement in the middle. That has to the best Fugato I have ever heard including anything by J.S. Bach.

I tried to transcribe it for piano but the amount of handindependence it takes to play
it was simply to much for me.

Thanks for the link, I enjoyed the piece and I could see why it would be difficult to trnscribe it. I often wonder had Beethoven not died so young, (I think 57 is young as I'm fast approaching that age myself), what wonderful music he would have penned.  Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Mendelssohn......  :'(

Cheers ;D

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: luc on July 28, 2005, 11:45:56 AM

1. Mozart



2. Beethoven
3. Chopin or Liszt ..hm

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: phil13 on July 28, 2005, 08:05:06 PM

These three just kind of chase themselves around 1st place, changing all the time...

1. Chopin
2. Beethoven
3. Scriabin

Then these ones just watch.

4. Bach
5. Rachmaninoff
6. Debussy
7. Mozart
8. Liszt
9. Me  ;D

Phil

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: piazzo23 on July 29, 2005, 04:50:55 AM

I´m the only one who mentioned Bartók?  :'(

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: trix on July 29, 2005, 09:17:02 AM

In no particular order (except maybe chronologically):

Bach
Beethoven
Schumann
Chopin
Brahms
Liszt
Rachmaninoff

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: superstar on July 29, 2005, 01:47:53 PM

F.Chopin
M.Mussorgsky
S.Rachmaninov
S.Prokofiev
L.V.Beethoven

............ i hope my prof wont see my list so she would ask me : "where the hell is Mozart? "

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: jerry xie on August 03, 2005, 06:53:31 PM

Quote from: schrewbie on July 11, 2005, 02:57:19 AM

Ok, I'm new here, so I'm not aware of all the other posts on this topic, so I'll just start my own. Who's your favorite composer? Schumann all the way for me. Grieg second, and louie 3rd.

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definitely B A C H!!!
he's overweight(probably ate 2 much junk foods)but he's got an exteremely good brain!!!
i luv his goldberg,it's really cool.

Title: Re: Favorite composer?
Post by: freddychopin on August 06, 2005, 03:34:51 PM

Chopin, Liszt, Balakirev, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky