Chose composer!!!!

[chopinmozart7]

hehe could not resist.

[db05]

Pianist is different from composer. And the choices are too limited.

Bach is out of the question. He hated piano, preferred harpsichord.
Chopin is a great composer and teacher, but rarely performed in a concert.
I don't like Mozart's compositions, but the number of pieces he wrote in a short life span is overwhelming.
I don't like Liszt's compositions, but he's good at transcribing for and playing the piano.

[pianowolfi]

Bach is out of the question. He hated piano, preferred harpsichord.

This is not true. He tested one of the Silbermann pianofortes and suggested how these instruments could be improved (being a very estimated expert at keyboard instruments, especially organs, in his time) That has nothing to do with hating these instruments.

[Kassaa]

Pianist is different from composer. And the choices are too limited.

Bach is out of the question. He hated piano, preferred harpsichord.
Chopin is a great composer and teacher, but rarely performed in a concert.

W.tf and
W.tf

[cherub_rocker1979]

Mozart
Beethoven
Chopin
Liszt
Scriabin
Rachmaninoff
Medtner

[aewanko]

Ferruccio Busoni

[concerto_love]

I saw the poll goes for chopin! 

[shortyshort]

Mozart for me at the moment.

I'm sure this will change again.

[db05]

This is not true. He tested one of the Silbermann pianofortes and suggested how these instruments could be improved (being a very estimated expert at keyboard instruments, especially organs, in his time) That has nothing to do with hating these instruments.

My mistake. Hate is such a strong word.

I've tried electric guitars. I can tell up to some extent which are good. Why, I even own one. That doesn't necessarily mean that I am an electric guitarist. Or that I like those things. Just curious, I guess.

Mozart
Beethoven
Chopin
Liszt
Scriabin
Rachmaninoff
Medtner

I second Rach and Scriabin
Schumann couple (yeah two heads are better than one sometimes)
Brahms
Mendelssohn?

[healdie]

I voted Beethoven but this is a bizzare poll as good composers are not always good pianists and vice versa

E.G Berlioz great composer - bad pianist
     Liszt great pianist - weaker composer

Also where the likes of Brahms, Shostakovich and Mahler (yes he was a good pianist)

[thalbergmad]

W.tf and
W.tf

Well Tempered

[thalbergmad]

Thalberg
Henselt
Gottschalk
Dreyschock

[retrouvailles]

No one for Sorabji? This isn't my nomination, but no one has selected him?

I think my nomination would have to be Medtner.

[Kassaa]

Well Tempered

finger.