Which composer do you play?

[hermanberntzen]

Do you learn pieces just by composers?
Im most likely to learn pieces from Bach, Grieg, Satie & Chopin.. i'm not likely to play other composers , because for me this makes much more order in my repotorie..
What about you guys, do you have composers that are the only ones you play?
Got any favorites, tell me about it!
For me it's much more order to play from spesific composers!

Regards,

[chopin1993]

I actually do have favorite composers, but don´t play just pieces by my favorites.
I´m open to anything, really.

My top 6:
1. Chopin (I can´t deny I tend to play Chopin more than other composers)
2. Rachmaninoff
3. Liszt
4. Scriabin
5. Mozart
6. Prokofiev

I play lots of works by Bach and Schubert!

Valerie

[jollisg]

I used to play more chopin, but right now I'm learning pieces of these composers:
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Stenhammar (a swedish composer), Chopin and Moszkowski.

In my current "play-able" repertoire I have these composers:
Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Sinding

I'm not going to list the ones I have been playing, there are some such as Haydn, Grieg etc..

[hermanberntzen]

I forgot to mention Robert Schumann , my favorite composer!
I used to pick alot of his pieces for a while ago, but im so into Bach at the moment!

Schumann got an wonderfull power in that piece!

Regards,

[pianoplayjl]

I mainly play Beethoven, Granados, Bach, Debussy, Heller and Chopin. Hoping to include some Liszt, Alkan, Lyapunov and Thalberg in the future if I am ever going to get to that level.

JL

[williampiano]

I play music by many composers, but the one's I tend to play the most are:

Bach
Scarlatti
Haydn
Beethoven
Schumann
Debussy
Prokofiev

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

Do you learn pieces just by composers?
Im most likely to learn pieces from Bach, Grieg, Satie & Chopin.. i'm not likely to play other composers , because for me this makes much more order in my repotorie..
What about you guys, do you have composers that are the only ones you play?
Got any favorites, tell me about it!
For me it's much more order to play from spesific composers!

Regards,

I like discovering new composers a lot!
But I'd have to say out of all the music I learned, I played the most Bach. I really hope I can learn the entire WTC one day... but I'm far from that goal!!
In the future I really would like to play more Chopin and Fauré and I just recently developed an obsession for Bartok's music.

[jjs238]

I play a lot but really feel best with the following:

Liszt and Rachmaninoff. I think it has to do with the use of the hands, my hand size and their ways of making things just go so great making your left do just as much as the right, or more. Some of them are like a puzzle I need to figure out with how to play them.

Mozart, Bach and Beethoven...Well, for some reason, they all sound too parallel to me and have too many of the same note lengths. I do love some Sonatas from Beethoven though, more for what he writes into it rather than the notes.

I don't like lots of dots that all line up with each other on paper you could say. I don't like my left hand doing what my right is doing either. I like my hands to be all over the place along with my mind and ideas.

[carpbear]

Do you learn pieces just by composers?
Im most likely to learn pieces from Bach, Grieg, Satie & Chopin.. i'm not likely to play other composers , because for me this makes much more order in my repotorie..
What about you guys, do you have composers that are the only ones you play?
Got any favorites, tell me about it!
For me it's much more order to play from spesific composers!

Regards,

I play just about everything.  Sure: I have favorite composers (late Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms) but I'm always branching out and exploring new composers who often become new favorite composers -- Alkan (absolutely amazing 19th century composer), Dussek, Weber, Shostakovich, Frescobaldi, Pachelbel, Anton Webern (especially his chamber music), Clementi, Marcel Dupre, Jehan Alain etc. 

As I mature, even major composers whom I never particularly cared for start to "grab" me:  Mozart, Handel, Haydn, early Beethoven, etc.  I think the great pianist Artur Rubenstein said it best:  "Constant development keeps the artist young."  Just like food, there is such a variety to the keyboard repertoire - there's no reason to limit oneself to just a few pieces by a few composers, just as there is no reason to limit oneself to American food and Tex-Mex!

[amelialw]

I love Rachmaninoff alot!! He drives my emotions to the extreme ends...I remember the 1st time I listened to Rach P.C no.2 online and it made me cry haha
Another favorite one is Mozart because it just makes me happy most of the time. I'm always guilty of picking his pieces to learn when I need to feel safe cause my teachers always say that I have a flair for playing his pieces so within the past 3 years I've learnt more Mozart than anything else

I don't only play pieces from my favorites though... I feel it's important to balance everything and do it in portions. My mentor does that for me though and she always checks up on me.

[simon13]

inferring a bit of ignorance judging from your question, I must say that it seems as if you do not have that much experience. the answer is simply: no, you don't! try to begin with very easy beginniners exercises, and then work up, starting with etudes(thompson and burgmuller, i'd recommend to you).

[ganddalf]

Being an amateur I avoid composers like Liszt and Rachmaninoff. At present I spend most time with the following composers:

1. Mendelssohn
2. Chopin
3. Bach
4. Grieg
5. Mozart
6. Debussy

I also like playing music by Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert and Shostakovich. However, I try avoid practicing too many pieces at the same time, therefore these composers have to wait.

[jtguru]

If I hear something I like, I will learn it; doesn't matter what composer it is.

Unfortunately though, my current repertoire only contains the following composers. I have much learning to do! 

Bach
Beethoven
Chopin
Debussy
Haydn
Liszt
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninoff
Scarlatti

[roseamelia]

Which composer do I play hrrmmmm....... I play Bach when I have the time his music is so moving8)
That's who I play in my spare time. & I also like to play Beethoven

Bach
Beethoven
Mendelssohn
Debussy
Chopin

[mosis]

scarlatti