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    Posted: September 10 2006 at 22:03
Who is your favorite Classical composer? As of right now, mine is probably Brahms. His 1st symphony is simply incredible.
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For now, Tchaikovsky, but I've been wanting to look into Wagner and Brahms, but never find the time to browse Barnes and Noble.
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My favorite composers would have to be Schoenberg and Cage, but if you're talking "real" classical music, Berlioz is a definite favorite. A year of music theory has taught me to hate Bach for his contributions to Counterpoint.

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Since I'm a sucker for great piano music my favorite composer is Chopin.
 
After that come Beethoven, Liszt and of baroque Handel and Bach
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Classical music is too pretentious for me.  Respected, but disliked.  Brahams, Debussy, Bach, Shubert, Mozart, Handel, Tchaikovsky, ect.....
 
 
Ive listend to a few of those names, It fails to move me, ehen it finished I feel disappointed that I just wasted time. 
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Either Musorgsky, Chopin, Vivaldi, or the Russian Five.

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I think that Georg Friedric Händel has composed the most beautiful classical songs, but it very difficult to name the one who would be definetally the best!
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For now, Messiaen. But i'm certain thse fellows would be included if i could afford to purchase any more albums: Cage, Zorn, Ligeti, Mahler, Stravinsky, Mozart
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1. Bach (JS)
2. Brahms
3. Mahler
4. Schubert
5. Shostakovich
6. Dvorak
7. Bruckner
8. Mozart
9. Mendelssohn
10. Sibelius

The top 6 of these are pretty solid, the others could be replaced by other names if I make a list next week.
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Right now it's been J.S. Bach but it frequently changes.
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Originally posted by Asyte2c00 Asyte2c00 wrote:

Classical music is too pretentious for me.


Eh?

My favorite compser is Dmitri Schostacovich, although I almost exclusivly listen to just his String Quartets. But there's 15 of them, and I listen to them a lot.

I also love late Shubert and Beethoven, and really starting to get into Karlheinz Stockhausen. Surprisingly beautiful. I've basically found some great stuff from most of the big names of all periods.


Edited by Rocktopus - September 11 2006 at 08:25
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THE MASTER...
 
 
 
 
symphonies, piano concertos, one violin concerto, chamber music...master of them all!!
 
 
 
 


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Well they featured Shostakovich at the proms and it's his 100th year of his birth and what I heard was pretty cool, but the one that stuck out was his 'cello symphony number 1 (I think).

After that, well, it's kind of different to everyone else... George Geshwin's Rhapsody In Blue.

I'm not into Opera, so most Operas will pass me by.


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Mine is always changing but I still go more with the most celebrated past masters: Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, etc. However, recently I'm getting into more recent masters: Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Villa-Lobos, Gershwin, Debussy, Satie, Rodrigo, etc. Smile

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Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mozart
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Grieg, Chopin, Vivaldi, Holst... Cool
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