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Offline schrewbie

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Favorite composer?
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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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #1 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.

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #2 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.

Offline thalberg

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #3 on: July 11, 2005, 03:59:47 AM
Bach.

Offline Waldszenen

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #4 on: July 11, 2005, 04:54:38 AM
Top 3

1. Brahms
2. Beethoven
3. Mozart
Fortune favours the musical.

Offline jeremyjchilds

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #5 on: July 11, 2005, 05:23:08 AM


1. Brahms



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Offline larse

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #6 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

Offline sevencircles

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #7 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)

Offline TheHammer

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #8 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.

Offline 6ft 4

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #9 on: July 11, 2005, 10:30:48 AM
The Big Three:

Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
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Offline hazypurple21

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #10 on: July 11, 2005, 01:36:56 PM
Three way tie:
Bach
Beethoven
Mendelssohn

Honorable Mentions:
Mozart
Rachmaninoff
Chopin
Gershwin
Dvorak
Haydn
Mahler
"There is one god-Bach-and Mendelssohn is his prophet."

Offline musicsdarkangel

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #11 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

Offline tompilk

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #12 on: July 11, 2005, 03:01:16 PM
My favourite is by a long way Rachmaninoff - i'm also obsessed;D
Working on: Schubert - Piano Sonata D.664, Ravel - Sonatine, Ginastera - Danzas Argentinas

Offline BoliverAllmon

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #13 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.

Offline pseudopianist

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #14 on: July 11, 2005, 06:28:51 PM
1.Liszt
2.Chopin
3.Scriabin
4.Rachmaninov
5.Bach
Whisky and Messiaen

Offline brahmsian

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #15 on: July 11, 2005, 07:29:58 PM
1. Brahms
2. Brahms
3. Brahms
4. Rachmaninoff
5. Scriabin
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Offline musicsdarkangel

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #16 on: July 11, 2005, 10:24:09 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.

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #17 on: July 12, 2005, 12:03:43 AM
1. Brahms
2. Brahms
3. Brahms
4. Rachmaninoff
5. Scriabin

I love your top three mate. ;)
Fortune favours the musical.

Offline mikeyg

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #18 on: July 12, 2005, 12:14:58 AM
1. Liszt
2.John Carey
3. Rachmaninov
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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #19 on: July 12, 2005, 12:20:46 AM
Rachmaninoff,scriabin,dedussy,liszt,chopin

Offline Floristan

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #20 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.

Offline jehangircama

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #21 on: July 18, 2005, 04:07:53 PM
Chopin : have you'll heard the fantasie in F minor?
You either do or do not. There is no try- Yoda

Life is like a piano, what you get out of it depends on how you play it

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #22 on: July 20, 2005, 08:05:24 PM
1. Alkan
2. Liszt/Scriabin
3. Schubert
"The best discourse upon music is silence" - Schumann

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #23 on: July 20, 2005, 08:09:33 PM
Liszt, Franz // Chopin, Frédéric
 ♪...Aziel Musica... ♪

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #24 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

Offline vaiva

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #25 on: July 21, 2005, 06:44:45 AM
1. Prokofjev
2. Grieg

Offline burstroman

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #26 on: July 23, 2005, 05:03:01 AM
Bach
Mozart
Schubert

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #27 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.

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #28 on: July 24, 2005, 08:29:51 AM
Rach, Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #29 on: July 25, 2005, 12:06:34 PM
Gershwin and Scriabin are my favorites at the moment :)
"The only love affair I have ever had was with music." - Maurice Ravel

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #30 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.

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #31 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

Offline al

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #32 on: July 25, 2005, 09:31:30 PM
In no particular order:

Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Schumann
Scriabin
Medtner

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #33 on: July 26, 2005, 03:09:50 AM
1. Rachmaninov
2. Prokofiev
3. Bartók
4. Scriabin
5. Brahms

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #34 on: July 28, 2005, 09:05:56 AM
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......  :'(

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #35 on: July 28, 2005, 11:45:56 AM
1. Mozart



2. Beethoven
3. Chopin or Liszt ..hm
OSMOSE NOW

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #36 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

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #37 on: July 29, 2005, 04:50:55 AM
I´m the only one who mentioned Bartók?  :'(

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #38 on: July 29, 2005, 09:17:02 AM
In no particular order (except maybe chronologically):

Bach
Beethoven
Schumann
Chopin
Brahms
Liszt
Rachmaninoff
Generally speaking, people suck.

Offline superstar

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #39 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? "

Offline jerry xie

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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #40 on: August 03, 2005, 06:53:31 PM
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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Re: Favorite composer?
Reply #41 on: August 06, 2005, 03:34:51 PM
Chopin, Liszt, Balakirev, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky
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