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Posted: August 08 2010 at 13:24
if I made a full list of them I would not know when to stop - there are so many of them.
first of all Johann Sebastian Bach. he is the Alpha and the Omega. "The Art of Fugue",, "The Brandenburg Concertos", "The Well-Tempered Clavier", the "Mass in B Minor", "The Goldberg Variations", "The St, Matthew Passion", "The Musical Offering", to name just a few of his works.
Gustav Mahler. I especially love his 9th symphony, his "Songs of a Wayfarer", his "Song of the Earth" and his "Children's Death Songs",
Ludwig van Beethoven, especially his 5th, 7th and 9th symphony, but also his "Egmont Overture", his violin concerto and his numerous piano works.
Carlo Gesualdo. He is not that famous, and many may not have heard his name before, but his madrigals move me like nothing else. just listen to this:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, especially for his piano concertos, but also his operas "The Magic Flute" and, most of all, "Don Giovanni", which is unsurpassed.
and a long long list of others - too many to mention them all. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Bedrich Smetana, Joseph Haydn and and and.....
Edited by BaldJean - August 08 2010 at 14:14
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 13:46
As of right now, my all-time favorite is hands-down Stravinsky. If we're going by separate eras, Stravinski is my favorite 20th Century composer, followed closely by Shostakovich and Holst.
Overall, though, Beethoven may be my second-favorite composer of all time. But he seems to switch placed with Tchaikovsky a lot in my mind, so I guess all I can really say is Stravinsky is on top, then all the others fall just behind him, in no particular order.
20th Century:
Stravinsky
Shostakovich
Holst
Glass (actually, I'm still new to his stuff, so I may not like the majority of it)
Romantic:
Tchaikovsky
Mussorgsky
Ravel
Brahms
Grieg
Puccini
Classical:
Beethoven (yes, I know he crossed over into the romantic era!)
Mozart
Haydn
Baroque:
Bach
Handel
Pachelbel
Vivaldi
No, that's not everyone I listen to. But those are some of my favorites, yes.
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 14:29
Complementation of my question:
How have you got to listening of the classical music?
My path:
1. In my age about 7: my first touch of classic in Musical school (Spanish guitar)
2. Adolescent years: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
3. University: Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Collegium Musicum, Yes, etc. →
4. Return to classical music through Symphonic Prog:
King Crimson→ Gustav Holst,
Yes→ J.S.Bach,
Emerson Lake & Palmer→Leo Janáček, M.P. Mussorgsky,
Blood Sweat & Tears→ Eric Satie,
Collegium Musicum→ Rimsky-Korsakov, Béla Bartók,
The Nice→ Leonard Bernstein,
Frank Zappa→ Edgard Varése, etc.
Many composers I´ve "found" myself, e.g. Edward Grieg,many of them I´ve known from my musical school - Smetana, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Beethoven...
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 14:34
^ My father used to play Mussorgsky's ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' a lot around the house when I was little. He also played Handel's ''Water Music'' quite a bit. Plus, my mother used to take me to see the Nutcracker Ballet every christmas. From there, I sort of just started making my own discoveries. It wasn't until about a year ago that I really started getting back into it heavily.
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 16:55
BaldJean wrote:
you probably mean "Grieg", not "Greig"
Grieg's great-grandfather was Scottish and the original family name was Greig. The name was only later changed to Grieg, so crimhead isn't that far from the truth.
Now as an answer to your complementary question, I got into classical
music from a very early age. It all started when I heard Bach being
played on church organ as a little kid. I instantly fell in love with both Bach's
music and the church organ.
I started playing piano when I was seven years old and soon made the leap to
classical music. Initially I played mostly Bach, Haydn and Mozart to improve my
technique and went on to play a wide array of Romantic works by various
composers. I've been in love with classical music ever since, especially
the baroque and Romantic periods.
Edited by Zebedee - August 08 2010 at 16:57
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 17:44
what motivated me was seeing Amadeus-the very next day i went to the local library and borrowed some Time Life box sets -that started the wheels in motion-i have listened to classical music practically every day since, and that was in the summer of 1985 for me, Bruckner and Berlioz are at the top of the heap.. though like some other people, there are so many composers that i listen to that it is hard to cover all bases there are about 45 different classical composers that i collect and listen to but hardly any of them approach what Bruckner and Berlioz do for me
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