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Offline Allan

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Composer's Choice For Greatest Musician!?
on: February 26, 2005, 12:00:40 AM
There are many different composers that we all enjoy to varying degrees.  If we could take all the great (or, shall we say, well known)  composers and ask them who their very favorite composer was, what would be the result?  My guess is.....Bach is the majority winner!

I will go with the composer's pick!   ;)

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Offline chopinisque

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Re: Composer's Choice For Greatest Musician!?
Reply #1 on: February 26, 2005, 01:46:41 AM
Bach definitely.  They all seem to just want to write a set of preludes (and fugues) in every key a la Bach.
Mad about Chopin.

Offline steinwayguy

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Re: Composer's Choice For Greatest Musician!?
Reply #2 on: February 26, 2005, 06:37:11 AM
I don't think there is any question it would be Bach. Now I just wonder who Bach regarded as the greatest composer...

Offline apion

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Re: Composer's Choice For Greatest Musician!?
Reply #3 on: February 26, 2005, 06:56:02 AM
I don't think there is any question it would be Bach. Now I just wonder who Bach regarded as the greatest composer...

That's the problem.  I think Bach actually liked Vivaldi .....

Offline Radix

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Re: Composer's Choice For Greatest Musician!?
Reply #4 on: February 28, 2005, 01:44:41 AM
I think that Rachmaninoff's was Medtner, and that Medtner's was Beethoven.

Offline musik_man

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Re: Composer's Choice For Greatest Musician!?
Reply #5 on: February 28, 2005, 01:49:21 AM


That's the problem. I think Bach actually liked Vivaldi .....

Bach also had a much smaller selection of composers, so we can't blame him for that one.
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