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Offline smithreeseii

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The Best Composers Come From.....
on: March 20, 2010, 02:18:21 AM
....what country/region? (Matter of opinion, of course)
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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #1 on: March 20, 2010, 02:19:31 AM
Russia!  ;D

However, on a more serious note, I don't see how one could declare that one region produces the 'best' composers.  :-\
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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #2 on: March 20, 2010, 02:27:12 AM
As i said above, it is a matter of opinion.  Where do your favorite composers come from.
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Offline vviola

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #3 on: March 20, 2010, 02:29:37 AM
Certainly not Italy. I would rather have the Germans than those of any other country.
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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #4 on: March 20, 2010, 02:31:39 AM
Quote from: smithreeseii on March 20, 2010, 02:18:21 AM
....what country/region? (Matter of opinion, of course)

Europe.  :)
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Offline smithreeseii

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #5 on: March 20, 2010, 02:33:07 AM
Well I don't think that narrows anything down SteveBob....
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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #6 on: March 20, 2010, 02:38:34 AM
Dang, I was originally going to say Planet Earth.  :)
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Offline horowitzian

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #7 on: March 20, 2010, 02:38:45 AM
Quote from: smithreeseii on March 20, 2010, 02:27:12 AM
As i said above, it is a matter of opinion.  Where do your favorite composers come from.

All over the place, actually...just a small sampling would include Rachmaninoff, Bortkiewicz, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Barber...That would be Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Hungary, France, and the USA.
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Offline horowitzian

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #8 on: March 20, 2010, 02:40:47 AM
Quote from: stevebob on March 20, 2010, 02:38:34 AM
Dang, I was originally going to say Planet Earth.  :)

Hehehehehehe, you won the thread.... ;D
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Offline smithreeseii

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #9 on: March 20, 2010, 02:41:47 AM
Ok, I'll admit that this question has some flaws, but I just wanted to post something...  ;)
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Offline ahinton

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #10 on: March 20, 2010, 06:08:55 PM
Scotland, of course, Everyone knows that!

The serious answer, however, is surely "their mothers".

Best,

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Offline pianisten1989

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #11 on: March 20, 2010, 07:14:13 PM
Most of the really good ones comes from the earth  ;D
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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #12 on: March 21, 2010, 12:19:04 AM
Poland
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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #13 on: March 21, 2010, 12:57:28 AM
Quote from: ahinton on March 20, 2010, 06:08:55 PM
Scotland, of course, Everyone knows that!

Possibly, but all the good ones emigrated.

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Offline Bob

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #14 on: March 21, 2010, 01:38:57 AM
Educated places?  Places that can support that kind of work. 
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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #15 on: March 24, 2010, 05:47:48 PM
Cold lands!!
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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #16 on: March 26, 2010, 03:32:32 AM
From other composers and other musicians?  :)  I think that's generally true, having the family background like that.
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Offline slow_concert_pianist

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Re: The Best Composers Come From.....
Reply #17 on: March 26, 2010, 05:13:39 AM
Lots of places. However ignorant people don't appreciate it.....

Hey, look at the biased responses to this thread :-[
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