Classical Composers

Grieg from this list. Following Dvořák, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Holst, Bartók, Sibelius...and many, many more.

When you've been visiting this site's forums long enough, it's really hard not to get deja po. That's it, I'm voting for other.  What do you mean that's not a choice?


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 06 2010 at 18:33

Didn't we just have a poll like this?

If we're gonna go with hearing and loving as a young 'un, I'm putting myself down for Beethoven. That damn Moonlight Sonata was the first thing I heard someone play in our house after my mom got a beaten down piano. It made me want to take lessons. And a cassette tape of The Emperor my grandmother gave me a bit afterward for a birthday pretty much sealed the deal.

I go have a special fondness for piano concertos (concerti?), so another choice for me would be Rachmaninov.

Liszt! You'd be hard pressed to find a more progressive composer. He anticipated impressionism, pioneered atonality, invented the piano recital and the symphonic poem and Wagner stole all his best ideas.

Shostakovich.

Where are Mussorgsky and Pachelbel? You really should have included an 'other' option.

Bach.  For sheer perfection of form.

I am not very familiar with classical music, but I like Chopin, just above Beethoven and Mozart

presdoug wrote: my three favourite composers are missing- 1) Anton Bruckner-to really live life is to hear his symphonies 2) Hector Berlioz-a really important link between the early and late romantics, and ahead of his time and redefined what an orchestra could do 3) Richard Strauss-the greatest composer of the twentieth century-Elgar was right about him-the musical genius of his day           i do relate to your list, though, as i listen to about 45 different classical music composers in total, some of which are already listed

you're quite right, Bruckner, Berlioz, R. Strauss, Elgar are great missing ones, due to lack of space. and of course, Mahler as well, how could I forget him!. And you're right too that Bruckner symph's are to be heard just like his masses, I have the symphonies with Klemperer, Karajan and Jochum as well, I think Jochum is the best at them. Berlioz's Te Deum and Requiem is also immortal. From Strauss my favourite is op. 28 and Metamorphosen, but he has many great works. As for Elgar, though he also wrote many huge musics, we can never forget his e-minor cello concertos championed by J. Du Pré, Casals, Fournier etc.

Lynx33 wrote: presdoug wrote: my three favourite composers are missing- 1) Anton Bruckner-to really live life is to hear his symphonies 2) Hector Berlioz-a really important link between the early and late romantics, and ahead of his time and redefined what an orchestra could do 3) Richard Strauss-the greatest composer of the twentieth century-Elgar was right about him-the musical genius of his day           i do relate to your list, though, as i listen to about 45 different classical music composers in total, some of which are already listed you're quite right, Bruckner, Berlioz, R. Strauss, Elgar are great missing ones, due to lack of space. and of course, Mahler as well, how could I forget him!. And you're right too that Bruckner symph's are to be heard just like his masses, I have the symphonies with Klemperer, Karajan and Jochum as well, I think Jochum is the best at them. Berlioz's Te Deum and Requiem is also immortal. From Strauss my favourite is op. 28 and Metamorphosen, but he has many great works. As for Elgar, though he also wrote many huge musics, we can never forget his e-minor cello concertos championed by J. Du Pré, Casals, Fournier etc.

i love Klemperer's, Karajan's , and Jochum's Bruckner as well, though my favourite Bruckner is done by Bruno Walter (Walter also does my favourite R. Strauss and Mahler) i love my Elgar done with Sir John Barbirolli-magnificent! I love the Berlioz Te Deum and Requiem very much (with Sir Thomas Beecham) and the Berlioz symphonies are wonderfull as well-for me, R. Strauss's tone poems are works of genius, especially Ein Heldenleben, which i consider to be just about the greatest musical work done by anybody (with Mengelberg or Beecham preferred)