Best Melodies

[donjuan]

Let's hear some pieces with your favorite melodies, or in your opinion, best composers for best melodies!  (I know..it's difficult to define the word 'best', but just name some that strike a chord with you!)  I love Bellini's melodies from his Operas "Norma" and "I Puritani", Or from Liszt's "Les Preludes" or "Benediction of God in Solitude"
donjuan  

[Antnee]

I think Some of the best melodies came from Schubert.
Like his serenade or some of his songs. He was an incredibly gifted melodist. Beethoven was also...  Anyone who knows his sonatas can recall their beautiful melodies... There are many more...

-Tony-

[Mello]

Tchaikovsky wrote a lot of memorable melodies.

[Saturn]

I started to think of some composers who wrote memorable or catchy melodies, and then I realized something:

don't all great composers write good melodies?

I mean, isn't that pretty much a prerequisite for a composer?  Aside from a well-crafted, well-structured piece with good feeling, a well-written melody is pretty much essential.  That's why these pieces have lasted hundreds of years.  And that's why to this very day, people continue to butcher these great works of music by setting their cell phone ring tones to them.

Mozart's melodies are some of the most memorable that you'll ever find.

- Saturn

[johnjwong]

best melody lies on the 20th century and pop songs we hear today everyday.  And Canon In D or Cannon Variations in C is the best!

[Stolzing]

Theres a ton of great melodies in Bizet's Carmen.

[benji]

The lyrical melody in Chopin's Ballade no. 1 is my favorite. Chopin wrote a lot of great melodies. Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies have awe-inspiring melodies.