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Same as French question, but for Russia. (Popularity poll!)

Tchaikovsky: 8 (10.1%)
Rachmaninoff: 28 (35.4%)
Stravinksy: 7 (8.9%)
Prokofiev: 16 (20.3%)
Shostakovich: 6 (7.6%)
Scriabin: 14 (17.7%)

Total Members Voted: 43

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Nightscape

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Russian Composers

on: June 25, 2005, 12:47:45 AM

This certainly isn't a complete list (no Medtner, Rimsky-Korsakov, etc) but I didn't want to make it too big, so I only placed composers that I am more familiar with (these 6).

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Reply #1 on: June 25, 2005, 01:24:33 AM

this is a hard poll
i am voting for rachmaninov and prokofiev, but stravinsky is also my favourite, however since this is a piano forum, and i think rachmaninov and prokofiev are obviously better piano composers. love shostakovichs and scriabin and tchaikovsky too, hehe, so basically , i would have voted for all if i could.
but again, as far as composition for the piano is concerned, its rach and prok

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Reply #2 on: June 25, 2005, 10:30:15 AM

Rachmaninov, hence my name.

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Reply #3 on: June 25, 2005, 10:51:18 AM

Rachmaninov by far followed by Scriabin.

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Re: Russian Composers

Reply #4 on: June 25, 2005, 05:29:02 PM

Scriabin

And Rachmaninov

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Reply #5 on: June 25, 2005, 07:04:01 PM

Tchai and Shost...

But i adore all Russian music right back to Glinka....so any of the composers i would have picked....esp Rach (but then everyone likes him...just about)

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Reply #6 on: June 25, 2005, 08:14:05 PM

Scriabin followed by Stravinsky. Really, I'm not a fan of any Russian music. At least not YET, anyway.

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Reply #7 on: June 25, 2005, 08:16:33 PM

Humm.... Hard choice... I finally chose Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, but I really like Scriabin too...

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Reply #8 on: June 25, 2005, 09:28:55 PM

Russian music just kicks arse, i love all of it, but yeah for piano it has to be Prokofiv and Rachmaninoff. I can't say too many good things about Stravinsky though, Rite of Spring... so good, it's all just great. Ah to be a Russian.

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Reply #9 on: June 25, 2005, 09:43:58 PM

Rachmaninoff & Prokofiev.

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Reply #10 on: June 25, 2005, 11:50:01 PM

Rachmaninov and Scriabin.

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Reply #11 on: June 25, 2005, 11:56:53 PM

There's so much amazing russian music... It wasn't too hard to make a choice for me though - picked Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, perhaps because I've heard more music by them than by the other composers. I love Prokofievs symphonies, his seventh is one of my favourite orchestral works. Rachmaninov wrote so many memorable melodies... they're both very fascinating and different composers.

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Reply #12 on: June 27, 2005, 01:10:44 PM

Liadov
Liapunov
Scriabin
Bortkiewicz
Blumenfeld

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Re: Russian Composers

Reply #13 on: June 27, 2005, 03:47:57 PM

Tchaikovsky

I also like Rachmaninoff. Never into Shostakovich, and very little from Stravinsky and Scriabin...

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Reply #14 on: June 27, 2005, 04:55:52 PM

Quote from: greyrune on June 25, 2005, 09:28:55 PM

Ah to be a Russian.

Aww I know! (Except wouldn't fancy having all that Stalin/communist history, can't have been easy living through the Russian revolution or the Stalin occupation, actually going further back Igor the terrible didn't sound too nice either...) Russians seem like such a determined and hard working nation. Would love to marry a Russian concert pianist.

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Reply #15 on: June 27, 2005, 05:11:38 PM

shosty and scriabin

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Reply #16 on: June 27, 2005, 10:01:24 PM

Quote from: ravel on June 25, 2005, 01:24:33 AM

this is a hard poll
i am voting for rachmaninov and prokofiev, but stravinsky is also my favourite, however since this is a piano forum, and i think rachmaninov and prokofiev are obviously better piano composers. love shostakovichs and scriabin and tchaikovsky too, hehe, so basically , i would have voted for all if i could.
but again, as far as composition for the piano is concerned, its rach and prok

what he said

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Reply #17 on: June 28, 2005, 04:26:20 AM

Mmmmm.

I can't really decide between Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Scriabin. And come to think of it Tchaikovsky is pretty durn good too.

Poll is too hard.

*Abstains*

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Reply #18 on: June 28, 2005, 04:28:07 AM

Quote from: steinwayguy on June 28, 2005, 04:26:20 AM

Mmmmm.

I can't really decide between Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Scriabin. And come to think of it Tchaikovsky is pretty durn good too.

Poll is too hard.

*Abstains*

Abstinance is a good strategy for a lot of things

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