What is your favorite composers? From each period?

[smj9195]

What is your favorite composers? From each period?
For me:
Barouque:none
Classical:Mozart
Romantic: Chopin
Modern: none
 

[orangesodaking]

Baroque: Bach
Classical: Beethoven
Romantic: Alkan
20th Century: Ravel

Extremely difficult decision with romantic: I believe Chopin and Liszt are the two most important romantic composers. Then Brahms, Mendelssohn, Alkan, Schubert, and Schumann (in that order). And then there are a bunch of great later romantic composers too.

Also with 20th century, I am a HUGE fan of Debussy (close 2nd) and Shostakovich (close 3rd).

[smj9195]

I actually like Debussy to.
I changed my mind:
Baroque:none
Classical:Mozart
Romantic:Chopin'
20th century: Debussy

[point of grace]

none barroque
Beethoven Classical
Brahms Romantic
Prokofieff and Rachmaninoff 20th C.
Simon Alejandro 21th C.

[berniano]

"None baroque?" Come on..................

Baroque: Bach (probably my absolute favorite of any time period too  )
Classical: Beethoven for sure
Romantic: Either Chopin or Rachmaninoff.......... about a tie between the two
20th century: Ravel, but Prokofiev and Shostakovich for piano concerto

[slow_concert_pianist]

Baroque: Handel and Bach
Rococco: Scarlatti
Classical: Hadyn
Romantic Russian: Cui and Glazunov
Romantic French: Chopin
Romantic German: Liszt, Beethoven and Mendelssohn
Romantic Spanish: Albeniz
Modern: Prokofiev and Bartok
Contemporary: Pendereki

But there are a huge range of composers I regularly enjoy listing to (and attempting composition performance): Couperin, Rameau, CPE Bach, Mozart, Kulau, Hummel, Schubert, Schumann, Dvorak, Brahms, Gottschalk, MacDowell, Balakirev, Glinka, Balavirev, Tanayev, Liapunov, Liadov, Scriabin, Rachmaniov, Godowsky, Debussy, Chabrier, Schmitt, Massenet, Granados, Busoni, Ravel, Villa Lobos, Berg, Schonberg, Webern, to name a few......

[nanabush]

Baroque - Bach
Classical - Beethoven
Romantic - Chopin
Impressionist - Tie b/w Debussy and Ravel
Later 20th Century - Prokofiev and Liebermann


Out of those, the order in which I like them goes as follows (from best to least favorite)

Debussy
Ravel
Chopin
Beethoven
Prokofiev
Liebermann
Bach  (bach's ok, there are still other composers from other time periods I like more)

[sjeon]

Baroque none:)
Classical Mozart
Romantic chopin
Modern Debussy

My five favorite composers are:
Mozart
Chopin
Schubert
Beethoven
Mendelssohn

(I also like Haydn, Liszt)

[weissenberg2]

Baroque - Bach -tie- Handel
Classical - Haydn
Romantic - Brahms -tie- Mendelssohn
20th century - Feinberg -tie- Ginastera

[point of grace]

"None baroque?" Come on..................

i have no favourites baroque composers...


PS: Prokofieff rocks!!!

[sjeon]

I changed my mind. I like mendelssohn better than Beethoven

[slow_concert_pianist]

I can add some modern composers I broadly don't like:

Shostakovitch, Stravinsky, Walton, Arnold, Hindermith, Sibelius, Copeland, Cage, Glass.

But all the above have written the odd work I like.

[orangesodaking]

Aww slow_concert_pianist, I love Shosty. But to each their own, I guess.

Are you talking about him as a whole or just his solo piano music? If you mean just solo piano music, I could maybe see that, but his concertos are really fun and the chamber music I am familiar with is really cool!

[alpacinator1]

Baroque: Bach
Classical: Beethoven
Romantic: Alkan
Modern: Cziffra

[vviola]

This has changed !

[john11inc]

Only using major composers; otherwise it would be impossible (not that it isn't already).

Baroque: Scarlatti (Piano), Bach (Other)
Classical: Schubert (Piano), Beethoven (Other)
Romantic: Liszt (Piano), Bruchner (Other)
1900-1937: Scriabin (Piano), Bartok (Other)
Neo-Classical: Prokofiev (Piano), Ginastera (Other)
Darmstadt Era: Bussotti (Piano), Xenakis (Other)
Post-Darmstadt: Kurtag (Piano), Durand (Other)

Random shout-outs to Nono, Dufourt, Schnittke, Boucourechliev and Goehr.

[point of grace]

Darmstadt Era: Bussotti (Piano), Xenakis (Other)
Post-Darmstadt: Kurtag (Piano), Durand (Other)

hey what does Darmstadt mean?

best,
Yanina

[john11inc]

hey what does Darmstadt mean?

best,
Yanina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt_School

[slow_concert_pianist]

Aww slow_concert_pianist, I love Shosty. But to each their own, I guess.

Are you talking about him as a whole or just his solo piano music? If you mean just solo piano music, I could maybe see that, but his concertos are really fun and the chamber music I am familiar with is really cool!

It is difficult to put my finger on. He is discordant in a cordant way. Ironically I like Kachachurian. Shostakovitch seems to "sit on the fence". However a few of his preludes and fugues are good.

[point of grace]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt_School

thanks you, i had no idea about the group

[gali]

I would love for you to check out my Contemporary Inspirational PIANO Music.  I hope you like it!!

https://www.itunes.apple.com/us/album/un-sonido-de-amor/id352878151

[orangesodaking]

Gali, welcome to Piano Street!

You do not need to post your link in multiple threads, and it is not relevant to some of the threads you posted it in (such as this one).

However, when I get home from school and onto a computer that does not block every other website, I will check your music out.

[chopin1993]

Baroque : Bach
Classical : Beethoven, Mozart
Romantic : Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff
Modern : Prokofiev

[pianisten1989]

And here's my very original list:

Baroque: Bach
Classic: Mozart and Beethoven
Romantic: Brahms and Chopin
Impressionism: None
Contemporary: RICHARD KASTLE!!! No.. None here either.

[wogandmush]

Baroque: J.S. Bach and Purcell
(Late) Classical: Gonna stick Beethoven and Schubert here.
Romantic: Brahms, Wagner and Mahler
20th Century: Stravinsky, Scriabin and Prokofiev

[smithreeseii]

Baroque:  Vivaldi, Bach
Classical:  Beethoven
Romantic:  Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Bruckner
20th Century:  Shostakovich, Elgar

[nyda]

Since so few contemporary composers are mentioned...

Nobuo Uematsu

[gep]

Early: Ockeghem
Pre-baroque: Monteverdi
Baroque: JSBach
Classical: probably Beethoven, with a soft spot for Schubert
Romantic: Bruckner (if you can call him "romantic"!)
Late-romantic: Mahler
20th century: Pettersson, Sorabji
Still living: hmmm....

In general: composers who "think outside their time's box", i.e. has a voice unique to his own and who has something to say.

Elliot Carter possibly falls in every period since baroque...

Of course, JSBach is present in every composer after him worth mentioning.

all best,
gep

[redbaron]

Baroque - Bach
Classical - None really, probably Beethoven if I absolutely had to
Romantic - Chopin, Brahms, Liszt
20th Century - Rachmaninov, Debussy, Scriabin

[ponken]

Baroque: Bach
Classical: Beethoven
Romantic: Chopin and Liszt
20th century: Debussy and Ravel

[m2r]

Baroque-Buxtehude
Classical-Beethoven
Romantic-Chopin
Modern-Bernstein