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A more comprehensive list.... who means the most to you?

Vivaldi
0 (0%)
J.S. Bach
2 (6.7%)
Handel
0 (0%)
Haydn
0 (0%)
Mozart
0 (0%)
Clementi
0 (0%)
Beethoven
6 (20%)
Schubert
1 (3.3%)
Czerny
0 (0%)
Mendelssohn
0 (0%)
Chopin
6 (20%)
Schumann
1 (3.3%)
Liszt
1 (3.3%)
Alkan
0 (0%)
Berlioz
0 (0%)
Rossini
0 (0%)
Wagner
0 (0%)
Tchaikovksy
0 (0%)
Rachmaninov
2 (6.7%)
Scriabin
0 (0%)
Debussy
2 (6.7%)
Ives
0 (0%)
Ravel
0 (0%)
Bartok
1 (3.3%)
Stravinksy
1 (3.3%)
Prokofiev
1 (3.3%)
Shostakovich
1 (3.3%)
Vaughn-Williams
0 (0%)
Barber
0 (0%)
Copland
0 (0%)
Britten
0 (0%)
Schoenberg
0 (0%)
Berg
0 (0%)
Webern
0 (0%)
Messian
0 (0%)
Babbit
0 (0%)
Cage
0 (0%)
Sorabji
3 (10%)
Boulez
0 (0%)
Ligeti
0 (0%)
Riech
0 (0%)
Adams
0 (0%)
Other
2 (6.7%)

Total Members Voted: 30

Topic: Your Favorite Composer  (Read 1690 times)

Offline Nightscape

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Your Favorite Composer
on: June 07, 2005, 03:50:50 AM
Sorry if I left out a few names.  If your favorite isn't on here, just select "Other" and tell us who.

-Oops.... It seems I left out a rather important one, Mahler.  And for that matter Strauss and Scarlatti too.

Offline Derek

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #1 on: June 07, 2005, 03:54:40 AM
YOU LEFT OUT CHRISTIAN SINDING, YOU BRAZEN HERETIC!!!!  (Rustle of Spring!!!)  LOL

man...that was hard. However I'd say the composer for whom the greatest number of works satisfy me intensely is Bach. I can listen to work after work after work, big works, small works, orchestral works, keyboard works, and all of them are intensely musically satisfying to me. My brain loves grabbing on to all the different things going on in his music. My brain + Bach = happy brain

Offline apion

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #2 on: June 07, 2005, 04:23:44 AM
Hmmmmm.......... no Brahms :o   :o ???

Offline Nightscape

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #3 on: June 07, 2005, 06:34:10 AM
Hmmmmm.......... no Brahms :o   :o ???

Oh my god.... you're right!  I don't know what I was thinking. (It's very late here, you know.)

Offline Chrysalis

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #4 on: June 07, 2005, 07:16:08 AM
Debussy ofcourse ^^
Debussy Rox! Debussy Rox! Debussy Rox!

Offline musicsdarkangel

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #5 on: June 07, 2005, 07:53:39 PM
Ring another one up for the Rach-and-roll-maninoff.

Offline JCarey

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #6 on: June 07, 2005, 08:15:55 PM
Though I prefer Beethoven and Rachmaninoff in many respects, I voted for Sorabji, only because I think he deserves more attention than he gets.

Offline dreamplaying

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #7 on: June 08, 2005, 03:19:49 AM
Forgot  Gabriel Fauré....great Nocturnes and Impromptus

Offline chev_bigblock

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #8 on: June 08, 2005, 03:32:24 AM
Oh man, I felt like I was betraying beethoven by voting for Chopin.  They both are my favorite. Now I feel like I'm betraying all the others, how could I do it, how could I actually vote.  I'm feel horrible.  This is the worst poll yet. :'(

Offline Triton LE 76

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #9 on: June 08, 2005, 06:35:51 AM
John Williams. ;), and Nobuo Uematsu ;)
There is no better composers.

Joern

Offline Regulus Medtner

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Re: Your Favorite Composer
Reply #10 on: June 08, 2005, 12:14:17 PM
What, you put Czerny but not Medtner? Now, that's just rude! :)

Anyway, I don't have just A favourite composer. So, that saves me the trouble of voting! 8)
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