Favorite composer?

[schrewbie]

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.

[Etude]

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.

[schrewbie]

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.

[thalberg]

Bach.

[Waldszenen]

Top 3

1. Brahms
2. Beethoven
3. Mozart

[jeremyjchilds]

1. Brahms



Finally, someone who speaks my mind!!

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[larse]

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

[sevencircles]

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)

[TheHammer]

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.

[6ft 4]

The Big Three:

Bach
Mozart
Beethoven

[hazypurple21]

Three way tie:
Bach
Beethoven
Mendelssohn

Honorable Mentions:
Mozart
Rachmaninoff
Chopin
Gershwin
Dvorak
Haydn
Mahler

[musicsdarkangel]

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

[tompilk]

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

[BoliverAllmon]

My top composer would be:

Shostakovich
Mozart
Bach
Haydn
Beethoven

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

[pseudopianist]

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

[brahmsian]

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

[musicsdarkangel]

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

nice!!

welcome to the darkside 


Want to know why we're obsessed?


Because he's the god of music.

[Waldszenen]

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

I love your top three mate.

[mikeyg]

1. Liszt
2.John Carey
3. Rachmaninov

[massi]

Rachmaninoff,scriabin,dedussy,liszt,chopin

[Floristan]

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.

[jehangircama]

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

[da jake]

1. Alkan
2. Liszt/Scriabin
3. Schubert

[Aziel]

Liszt, Franz // Chopin, Frédéric

[jim_24601]

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

[vaiva]

1. Prokofjev
2. Grieg

[burstroman]

Bach
Mozart
Schubert

[allthumbs]

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

[shenting]

Rach, Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

[Bouter Boogie]

Gershwin and Scriabin are my favorites at the moment

[sevencircles]

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.

[jz_rach2]

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........

[al]

In no particular order:

Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Schumann
Scriabin
Medtner

[piazzo23]

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

[allthumbs]

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

[luc]

1. Mozart



2. Beethoven
3. Chopin or Liszt ..hm

[phil13]

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 

Phil

[piazzo23]

I´m the only one who mentioned Bartók? 

[trix]

In no particular order (except maybe chronologically):

Bach
Beethoven
Schumann
Chopin
Brahms
Liszt
Rachmaninoff

[superstar]

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? "

[jerry xie]

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.

[freddychopin]

Chopin, Liszt, Balakirev, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky