which composer's music has the most appealing and 'pretty' aesthetic to you?

[stevie]

some things are pretty and appealing to different people....anyway, the whole *SOUND* of scriabin's music is luminous, when it is calm it makes me sit still and motionless and i almost break into tears, when it is joyous, i feel like jumping around, and when it is angry, i nearly bust a vein in my head, randomly.
also, the sound of alkan, the brute rawness of much of his piano writing, and physical force is also appealing, true.

but if there was only 1 sound world id like to live with, itd be scriabin's.

[stevie]

hmm, by this i think i mean harmonic language, because my favourite composers are alkan and beethoven, randomly, but if you get me...the *sound* of scriabin is my fave

[sauergrandson]

"Pretty" aesthetic?   Haydn and Mendelssohn. But they're not my "maxima".

[avetma]

I can listen Rachmaninov 1-4 concerti over and over whole day with please.

His 'second movements' make me feel great while I walk and listen them.

[stevie]

"Pretty" aesthetic?   Haydn and Mendelssohn. But they're not my "maxima".

i mean the basic texture, sound, and harmonic feel of the composer, that you find most pretty.

i use pretty as opposed to beautiful, but i just mean sensual pleasure, something can be beatiful without being pleasing to the ear, but something has to be pretty to randomly true.

[panic]

Beethoven, with Rach probably second.

[sauergrandson]

I've got it. POULENC.

[pianistimo]

yes!  and faure.  basically, a lot of french composers had that 'pretty' sound.  saint-saens.  i heard something really beautiful of his on the radio the other day - and now can't remember what it was (a piano quartet - did he write one?).  chaminade is a female composer that comes to mind as well.

macdowell wrote some 'pretty' pieces, too.  maybe not sensual as the french, but earthy and poetic.

[sauergrandson]

Yeepi.    Chabrier!!!!!!!

[stevie]

and randomly chausson

[sauergrandson]

I don't know Chausson's piano works.

[klavierkonzerte]

i don't know what  aesthetic means so i'll go with the most appealing.

bach is probably the most appealing to me i just can't have enough bach i listen to his st.mathews passion almost everyday
almost EVERYTHING he writes for all instruments is a masterpiece.

liadov's piano music, specially the preludes, is very appealing to me
unfortunatly he didn't write much
i wish he wrote a concerto, i'm defint it would have been a standard on our repertoir.