out of these composers who do you really like and who do you really hate?

[amelialw]

Just wondering, out of the list of composers below,who do you really like and who do you really hate? why? this should be interesting...

J.S Bach
Handel
Scarlatti
Mozart
Haydn
Beethoven
Chopin
Schubert
Liszt
Debussy
Brahms
R.Schumann
C.Schumann
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninoff


To start it off, for me I really like Mozart, Mendelssohn, Haydn, R.Schumann and I really dislike Schubert, I don't know why i just don't and Bach would be pretty close.

[soliloquy]

Like:
Scarlatti
Beethoven
Chopin
Schubert (some)
Liszt
Debussy
Rachmaninoff

Dislike:
J.S Bach (some)
Handel
Mozart
Haydn
Brahms
R.Schumann (some)
C.Schumann
Mendelssohn (LOVE the string octet, hate pretty much everything else)
This thread

[retrouvailles]

Dislike:
This thread

I agree. There are like a million threads like this in the polls section and we don't need another one.

[pies]

I don't hate any of their works.  I like some of them more than others.

[ahinton]

Dislike:
...
Mendelssohn (LOVE the string octet, hate pretty much everything else)
This thread

I'm very much with you about the Octet, but you surely don't "hate" the F minor Quartet, Op. 80, do you?...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Oh no, not another one.

Thal

[elevateme_returns]

Just wondering, out of the list of composers below,who do you really like and who do you really hate? why? this should be interesting...

J.S Bach
Handel
Scarlatti
Mozart
Haydn
Beethoven
Chopin
Schubert
Liszt
Debussy
Brahms
R.Schumann
C.Schumann
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninoff


To start it off, for me I really like Mozart, Mendelssohn, Haydn, R.Schumann and I really dislike Schubert, I don't know why i just don't and Bach would be pretty close.

how can you hate any of those? they all wrote very fine music

[mephisto]

What is your favourite piece by Clara Schumann?

[counterpoint]

I wouldn't say that I hate them, but I strongly dislike Clara Schumann and Rachmaninoff.
Clara's music sounds too Biedermeier to me. Rachmaninoff has always some good parts, but then there are so many wrong notes, which spoil the overall impression.

[elevateme_returns]

i like a lot of c schmanns stuff, like the 3 romances op 11

[soliloquy]

I'm very much with you about the Octet, but you surely don't "hate" the F minor Quartet, Op. 80, do you?...

Best,

Alistair

There's a good chance I haven't heard it, as I haven't really taken the time to listen to some of the less common-rep Mendelssohn pieces.  I will listen tonight.

[pianowolfi]

I wouldn't say that I hate them, but I strongly dislike Clara Schumann and Rachmaninoff.
Clara's music sounds too Biedermeier to me. Rachmaninoff has always some good parts, but then there are so many wrong notes, which spoil the overall impression.

OHHHHH counterpoint, now you seriously disappoint me . Rach is my favorite composer and the "wrong notes" are wonderful, painful or lightful colours in a world of depth and transcendence.

[counterpoint]

OHHHHH counterpoint, now you seriously disappoint me . Rach is my favorite composer and the "wrong notes" are wonderful, painful or lightful colours in a world of depth and transcendence.

That's regrettable - that you are disappointed from me - but everyone has his personal preferences. Rachmaninoff does not belong to mine 

[pianowolfi]

That's regrettable - that you are disappointed from me - but everyone has his personal preferences. Rachmaninoff does not belong to mine 

Yes of course. But perhaps you will give him another chance one day? I was not so much into Rach either when I was young.

[counterpoint]

I was not so much into Rach either when I was young.

hahaha, you know how old I am?     

[lazlo]

^{Dislike:
J.S Bach (some)
Handel
Mozart
Haydn
Brahms
R.Schumann (some)
C.Schumann
Mendelssohn (LOVE the string octet, hate pretty much everything else)
This thread}

How can one possibly "hate" or "dislike" brahms...... Come to think of it, how can someone who likes classical music or has any respect or understanding of the genre "hate" ANY of those composers??? I'm not saying you gotta like everything, but those are some big names up there, and all contributed a lot to the music that came either after, and all have some real gems. This is so black and white. It's so completely useless to have this kind of thread...

[franz_]

I adore Rachmaninoff. I hate nobody, but most of the time I find Schubert annoying.

[pianowolfi]

hahaha, you know how old I am?     

Yes. I just was talking about myself. When I was 20 I found Rach overloaded, kitschy, too sweet, too many notes etc. etc. The love came later. Life is the composer, after all, maybe...to me not ONLY maybe.....

[tradge]

J.S Bach - Love
Handel - like some
Scarlatti - dont really like
Mozart - love
Haydn - love
Beethoven - love
Chopin - love
Schubert - not a fan
Liszt - love
Debussy - love
Brahms - love
R.Schumann - not too partial
C.Schumann - not too partial
Mendelssohn - hate
Rachmaninoff - love

[pianowolfi]

I can honestly say that I love all of them. Each of them for exactly what he/she is or has been. Each of them because they poured their whole life and heart into their music. They have given all they had. Their whole life. Their whole feelings. Their whole effort. They are heroes to me. All of them.