what are the top 3 most central composers to your repertoire?

[stevie]

calculate whom you play the greatest amount of music by....

chopin , liszt, and alkan are the top 3 in mine(at least in a few years they will be...randomly)

[henrah]

Chopin and Liszt (although I'm liking more Rachmaninov at the moment), and will be Mendelssohn.

[sissco]

Chopin and Liszt, and I want to play more Scriabin in the future

[sharon_f]

Bach, Beethoven, Chopin

[chopinfan_22]

Chopin, Beethoven, and Liszt.

[justliam]

Bach, Chopin and Debussy at the moment, want to learn all the Debussy preludes, Suite Bergamasque and childrens corner, and chopins Etudes and then possibly Rachmaninoff or Liszt after that, who knows?

[mike_lang]

Probably Brahms, Liszt, and Bach.  Liszt for its technical difficulty, Bach for its polyphony, and Brahms for my emotional connection to it.

[sauergrandson]

Really there are four: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin

[musicsdarkangel]

Chopin, Bach, Beethoven,

and I have a feeling this is the most popular answer, as they are three of the most essential for a pianist's development.


As soon as I get into grad school, the Russians will take over as well as Liszt.

.... but Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Mozart will always be hanging in there.  They all have different benefits.

[avetma]

Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt most common.

Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Rachmaninov are following them.

From Mendelssohn only piano concerto in g minor.

Offtopic: Any suggest for nice mendelssohn piano piece? Exepct scherzo in e minor and rondo.

Thank you

[sauergrandson]

Capriccio op. 5

Seven Characteristic Pieces op. 7

[thalbergmad]

Liszt, Thalberg, Clementi

[g_s_223]

Brahms, Liszt, Schubert.

Ravel is up there too.

[jas]

Chopin, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.

Though, my technique would probably be a lot better if there was some Bach or Mozart in there...

Jas

[frida1]

The only one of my top favorites not listed is Schumann.  Some of his music is so beautiful, and not quite so difficult.  I enjoy playing Papillon, Waldszenen and Scenes from Childhood.

[apion]

Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt.

[chopin fan]

Chopin, Haydn, Debussy, Bach

I would love to do Rachmaninoff, but my teacher doesn't like him all that much. Says he is over played and not played well when done.  Oh well. I love Haydn, it's all good!

[pianistimo]

bach, beethoven, mozart  (really basic)

beyond that - i would like to expand to barber and poulenc (to know them better).

[burstroman]

bach, beethoven, mozart

[alejo_90]

Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin. 

[kriskicksass]

Chopin, Beethoven, Bach (in that order)

Beethoven is my absolute favorite composer, but I've only played 4 of his sonatas because his generally unpianistic writing makes the learning kinda slow for me. I play tons of Chopin (almost all the preludes, a waltz, a scherzo, an etude-I'm reading through all the etudes) because all students do.  As for Bach, I've played 3 of his Inventions and a couple P&Fs (I'm reading through them all).

Rachmaninoff is another regular, but other than the 1st movement of his 2nd Concerto I've only played a few of his preludes.

[apion]

Beethoven is my absolute favorite composer, but I've only played 4 of his sonatas because his generally unpianistic writing makes the learning kinda slow for me.

OK... can you reconcile this incongruity (i.e., Beethoven's your favorite despite his "unpianistic writing")?

(he's my favorite too!)

[allthumbs]

Chopin, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. (Starting lineup)

I do have to throw in Debussy, Schumann and Mendelssohn. (Second string)

[steinwayargentina]

At this moment, is Bach, Rachmaninoff, Chopin. but it could be Bach Mozart Beethoven as well. Pablo

[invictus]

Prokofiev
Liszt
Chopin

others(still major)

rach
scriabin
beethoven
debussy

[franzliszt2]

Chopin
Debussy
Liszt

Also Janacek, Alkan (in few years), Ravel

[jlh]

Chopin
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff

[Mozartian]

Bach, Schumann, Chopin

others right up there:
Beethoven, Mozart

[Tash]

i'm thinking chopin, bach, and a tossup between beethoven and debussy, oh maybe haydn too, i really need to count...

[kriskicksass]

OK... can you reconcile this incongruity (i.e., Beethoven's your favorite despite his "unpianistic writing")?

(he's my favorite too!)

Musically, Beethoven is my favorite composer. I haven't gone through a lot of his music because it doesn't always fit well under the hand and that makes me take a little longer to learn and perform it convincingly.

[cloches_de_geneve]

Mozart, Schubert, Liszt

[ako]

Musically, Beethoven is my favorite composer. I haven't gone through a lot of his music because it doesn't always fit well under the hand and that makes me take a little longer to learn and perform it convincingly.

Beethoven is definitely most central to my repertoire and I totally agree with you here.

[letters]

bach beethoven and debussy, but im also playing schumman, haydn and chopin. and mozart occasionally!

[nanabush]

Chopin, then Bach, then Debussy.

[stormx]

Clementi
Czerny
Kuhlau

Guess what my piano level is?   

 

[superstition2]

Scriabin. Rachmaninov

The third position is shared.

[arensky]

Scriabin. Rachmaninov

The third position is shared.

By whom?

[arensky]

Chopin, Brahms, Debussy.

Next are Mozart, Ravel and Scriabin.

[chelsey]

I'm a student, I'm not allowed to limit my repertoire to three, nor would I want to

Eventually, I'd love to build programs around these guys:

Bach
Beethoven
Chopin

But even just sitting here pondering this, there's no way I would ever, as I enjoy 20th century pianism too much, and no single composer could ever keep me satisfied in that department, there's just too much variety. I like to embrace variety.

[soliloquy]

By number of pieces:
Chopin
Debussy
Scarlatti

By time worth of music:
Alkan
Chopin
Liszt

[mike_lang]

I really wish people would start explaining why certain composers are important to their repertoire; otherwise, this topic would do better as a poll.