Who in your opinion wrote the best...

[mikey6]

Symphonic 1st movts Mozart
2nd movts (slow) Beethoven/Elgar/Tchaikovsky
3rd movts (scherzo/Minuet) Tchaikovsky
4th movts Haydn/Beethoven/Mahler

Concerto 1st movts Mozart/Prokofiev
2nd movts (slow) Rachmaninoff/Beethoven
3rd movts (scherzo)(if applicable) Prokofiev
Finale Beethoven/Mozart

Sonata 1st movts Liszt/Beethoven/Scriabin
2nd movts Mozart
3rd movts (Scherzo)(if applicable) Brahms/Chopin
Finale Prokofiev

Variations: Brahms

Symphonic poems: Liszt/Strauss

Chamber Music: Brahms

Choral Music: Vaughan Williams

Opera: Mozart


So basically list which composer you think wrote the best of each and then copy mine as a template. I can't list just one so up to 3 - it's harder than you think!

[prongated]

...hmmm wonder if you're thinking of Brahms Handel variations or the one on the theme of Schumann op. 9...

...sigh looking at my list, I think I need to listen to more music of various kinds...

Symphonic 1st movts Beethoven
2nd movts Beethoven/Mahler
3rd movts Brahms
4th movts Mahler/Beethoven

Concerto 1st movts Brahms/Beethoven
2nd movts Rachmaninoff/Beethoven/Brahms
3rd movts (if applicable) Brahms
Finale Brahms

Sonata 1st movts Beethoven/Scriabin/Schubert
2nd movts Schubert/Beethoven
3rd movts (if applicable) Beethoven/Schubert/Chopin
Finale Chopin/Beethoven/Schubert

Variations: Beethoven/Rachmaninoff

Symphonic poems: Strauss

Chamber Music: Brahms/Beethoven

Choral Music: Palestrina

Opera: Mozart/Bellini

[phil13]

Symphonic 1st movts : Beethoven/Brahms
2nd movts (slow) : Brahms
3rd movts (scherzo/Minuet) :Beethoven
4th movts : Brahms

Concerto 1st movts: Brahms/Bortkiewicz/Scriabin
2nd movts (slow): Beethoven/Rachmaninoff/Scriabin
3rd movts (scherzo)(if applicable): Brahms/Litolff
Finale: Scriabin/Rachmaninoff/Bortkiewicz

Sonata 1st movts : Medtner/Beethoven/Bowen
2nd movts : Beethoven/Bowen
3rd movts (Scherzo)(if applicable) : Medtner/Beethoven
Finale : Medtner/Chopin/Bowen

Variations: Grieg (Ballade)/Brahms/Haydn (F minor)

Symphonic poems: Franck (for Les Djinns alone)

Chamber Music: Brahms

Choral Music: Beethoven

Opera: Mozart/Bellini


Phil

[ahinton]

Chamber Music: well, me, of course.

And, just in case people raise understandable objections to such gross egotism, let me remind them that there are (in the area where I reside) still some 60 minutes of today left...

Best,

Alistair

[mikey6]

This has turned into a praise Beethoven thread

[phil13]

This has turned into a praise Beethoven thread

Well, to be fair, he was one of the greatest composers who ever lived.

AND, only 2 other people have filled out the form besides you.

AND, I said Beethoven only 1 more time than you did. 

Phil

[steinwaymodeld]

This has turned into a praise Beethoven thread

probably because he is so AAAWWWWESOME??

[prongated]

...well I was about to say, looking at my form, it is also obvious who my favourite composer would have been...that said, Brahms also got quite a lot of mentions...but no Bach...hmmm

...I merely think in terms of pieces. I can tell you that Brahms 3 (3rd movt), Beethoven 3 (1st movt) and 5 (2nd-4th movts), and Mahler 4 (2nd and 4th movt.) are probably what I had in mind when I picked composers for symphonic work...

[mikey6]

but no Bach...hmmm

Polly coz he doesn't fit into too many categories, whereas most of the other major composers wrote in all of dem.

[pianistimo]

symphonic first mov'ts:  rimsky-korsakov
second movements: samuel barber - concerto for violin
third movements: beethoven - emperor concerto
fourth movment:  mahler's fourth movement from symphony #9 (ressurrection)

variations:  faure's theme and variations is interesting.  i'd like to hear it more often.  it is quite difficult at the end.

sonata - the movements all tend to blend together for some reason, for me.  i can't separate them from each other.  therefore - i really like the waldstein - all the movements because at one point - beethoven says ' just go at it - and move right into the next movement.' 

i think these breaks are a carryover from baroque dances or something.  stop. wait for the green light.

symphonic poem:  i wnat to hear more and compare.  don't  know on this one yet.  probably rimsky-korsakov's 'scheherazade.'  or dvorak - 'the moldau.'

chamber music:  corelli (with cornets)

chorale music:  haydn, brahms, beethoven

opera:  mozart/verdi

[phil39]

Symphonic 1st movts beethoven/mozart/haydn
2nd movts (slow) Beethoven
3rd movts (scherzo/Minuet) beethoven/mozart
4th movts brahms

Concerto 1st movts Mozart/grieg/tchaikovsky
2nd movts (slow) Rachmaninoff/Beethoven
3rd movts (scherzo)(if applicable)
Finale Beethoven/

Sonata 1st movts mozart
2nd movts Mozart/beethoven
3rd movts (Scherzo)(if applicable) mozart/beethoven
Finale beethoven

Variations: Mozart/Brahms

Symphonic poems: Liszt/mussorgsky/sibelius

Chamber Music: beethoven/Brahms

Choral Music: JS Bach

Opera: Mozart/Verdi/bizet

[phil13]

WHOA HOLD UP.

Who is this?

Phil

[soliloquy]

Chamber Music: well, me, of course.

And, just in case people raise understandable objections to such gross egotism, let me remind them that there are (in the area where I reside) still some 60 minutes of today left...

Best,

Alistair

Well we can only hope that each of your chamber pieces is exactly as you would want it, therefore they are the "perfect pieces" to you.  So I guess one could say such a thing without massive ego, if one were to think about it


PS- alistair, why did you take down mine and Ryguillian's homage to you from the Sorabji archive?  We had a back-story and everything =/  We were thinking about how when we were riding around on the ATV's how you would for sure ride around in the golf cart with us and how funny that would be XD

[ahinton]

Well we can only hope that each of your chamber pieces is exactly as you would want it, therefore they are the "perfect pieces" to you.  So I guess one could say such a thing without massive ego, if one were to think about it

Whilst I can only hope (rather than expect) that this may be true (or at least as true as is humanly possible), I was saying it as a joke, pure and simple - no more, no less.

Best,

Alistair

[prongated]

Whilst I can only hope (rather than expect) that this may be true (or at least as true as is humanly possible), I was saying it as a joke, pure and simple - no more, no less.

Best,

Alistair

...oh. I see. But I still don't get that part of 60 minutes left part...or am i thinking too much already?

symphonic poem: i wnat to hear more and compare. don't know on this one yet. probably rimsky-korsakov's 'scheherazade.' or dvorak - 'the moldau.'

Isn't "The Moldau" written by Smetana as part of "Ma Vlast" ("My Country")? Or is this another 'moldau' I'm not aware of?

[webern78]

Polly coz he doesn't fit into too many categories, whereas most of the other major composers wrote in all of dem.

In that case:

Catatas: Bach

Passions: Bach

Masses: Bach, Palestrina, Josquin

Motets: Josquin, Lassus

Fugues: Bach

Canons: Bach, Josquin

Chansons: Dufay, da Perugia

Madrigals: Marenzio, Gesualdo, Monteverdi

Verspers: Monteverdi

 

[mikey6]

In that case:

Catatas: Bach

Passions: Bach

Masses: Bach, Palestrina, Josquin

Motets: Josquin, Lassus

Fugues: Bach

Canons: Bach, Josquin

Chansons: Dufay, da Perugia

Madrigals: Marenzio, Gesualdo, Monteverdi

Verspers: Monteverdi

 

You forgot Inventions, preludes, Partitas and suites