On musicians and epoches

[gilad]

Who is your favourite composer, or cluster of composers?

Are they from the same era in classical musics developent?

Do you enjoy neo-calssical artists and modern classical music?

Can recomment any composers from that category that are worth checking out?

I love J S Bach, I think he must be my favourite composer. Im not so keen on modern composers.

[mcgillcomposer]

I love J S Bach, I think he must be my favourite composer. Im not so keen on modern composers.

JS Bach is wonderful.

Just out of curiosity, which modern composers are you familiar with? Perhaps I can direct you to something different than what you know that might allow you to give contemporary music another shot.

[gilad]

Thanks McGill. I'm very new to the modern composers, I've been happily rockin along in the cradle of baroque and romantism when all of a sudden along came a gust of modernism and as the story goes my cradle did fall.

I like Messiaen is small doses, especially the guartet till the end of time.

I find the following tough to stomach. Bartok,Carl Nielson, Stravinksy, shoenberg, Sir Malcom Arnold, shoshtakoch,Aaron Copland, Takemitsu, Fukai,El khoury, and a couple others I cant recall.

I have not given them all much of a listening. I mostly turn it off after a shirt while. I find it very dark and somber.

I did just finsh listening to a symphony by Sir M Arnold which i got into though.

But over all so far im struggling( :

[thalbergmad]

Me is mainly interested in the neglected composers/transcribers of the 19th Century.

Pixis, Woelfl, Cramer, Fumagalli, Martucci, Thalberg...........................

Thal