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Green Shield Stamp 
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 Topic: Top Three Classical Composers
Posted: May 04 2010 at 15:08 |
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Dorsalia wrote:
There aren't very many classical composers. |
What are you getting at? |
Is it some kind of semantic point eg. There are plenty of composers of classical music but there aren't many classical composers (the composers themselves being classical constructs)?
I don't know. Either Dorsalia is being pedantic in the extreme or he is making a profound point that is impossible to decipher.
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Posted: May 03 2010 at 16:32 |
tamijo wrote:
Impossible only to pick 3, Classical music spans so wide, in time and style.
Modern favorites.:
Dvorak, Scriabin, Debussy, Ives, Stravinsky
And the earlier once.:
Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bruckner.
Ancient.:
Bach |
what is your favourite Bruckner music?
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tamijo
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Posted: May 03 2010 at 14:25 |
Impossible only to pick 3, Classical music spans so wide, in time and style.
Modern favorites.:
Dvorak, Scriabin, Debussy, Ives, Stravinsky
And the earlier once.:
Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bruckner.
Ancient.:
Bach
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: May 03 2010 at 13:55 |
Dorsalia wrote:
There aren't very many classical composers. |
What are you getting at?
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presdoug
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Posted: May 01 2010 at 20:26 |
tarkus1980 wrote:
The one slight reservation I have about Chopin is that he's a bit of a one-trick pony in terms of instrumentation. The man could write circles around most composers on the piano, but pretty much everything of his that's worthwhile is just solo piano music. Great composers should be able to write in several different forms, large-scale and small-scale, with good mixes of keys, strings and brass.
I'm not saying I don't like him a lot; just that he's a little narrow. |
i find for me, his best music are his works for piano and orchestra-the definitive collection being with pianist Claudio Arrau conducted by Eliahu Inbal with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on a Phillips duo
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Dorsalia
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Posted: May 01 2010 at 15:38 |
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There aren't very many classical composers.
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Posted: April 30 2010 at 07:46 |
The one slight reservation I have about Chopin is that he's a bit of a one-trick pony in terms of instrumentation. The man could write circles around most composers on the piano, but pretty much everything of his that's worthwhile is just solo piano music. Great composers should be able to write in several different forms, large-scale and small-scale, with good mixes of keys, strings and brass.
I'm not saying I don't like him a lot; just that he's a little narrow.
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Posted: April 29 2010 at 23:45 |
1. Bach
2. Chopin
3. Schubert
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tarkus1980
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Posted: April 29 2010 at 18:06 |
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Oh, I forgot Debussy. That was silly.
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presdoug
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Posted: April 29 2010 at 17:41 |
tarkus1980 wrote:
Only three?
It would be Beethoven, Stravinsky and Bartok in some order, for me. Not far behind would be Mozart, Brahms, Bach, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, also in some order. |
Not far behind for me would be Mahler, Elgar, Brahms, Franck, Wagner and Sibelius
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tarkus1980
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Posted: April 29 2010 at 17:06 |
Only three?
It would be Beethoven, Stravinsky and Bartok in some order, for me. Not far behind would be Mozart, Brahms, Bach, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, also in some order.
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Posted: April 29 2010 at 16:46 |
1. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (aka 'Mendelssohn). 
2. Mozart
3. Dvorak (sorry I don't know how to put the symbols over the 'r' and 'a' in his name...
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 22:14 |
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Stravinsky
Ligeti
Shostakovich
Those are the three that came to mind first.
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 22:10 |
I'm big fan of German composers that begin in "B".
1. Blind Guardian.
2. Beethoven
3. Bach
thellama73 wrote:
1. Franz Liszt - made immeasurable advances in piano technique and chromatic harmony.
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technique-wise did he contribute more than Chopin? Beethoven? Just curious.
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 20:40 |
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 18:22 |
The T wrote:
^I really doubt those three are still decomposing... I'm sure they're one with our mother earth now...  |
Monty Python did this Decomposing Composers song on their Contractual Obligation album. "You can still hear Beethoven, but Beethoven can not hear you."  Decomposing Composers by Monty Python
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 18:19 |
^I really doubt those three are still decomposing... I'm sure they're one with our mother earth now...
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 18:11 |
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For decomposing composers mine are Debussy, Holst, and Mussorgsky.
For modern ones still alive: Reich, Glass, and Hackett.
Edited by Slartibartfast - April 19 2010 at 18:12
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 17:38 |
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Those Russian guys whose names end in "sky."
1. Tchaikovsky
2. Stravinsky
3. Mussorgsky
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 17:19 |
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Mozart
Beethoven
Stravinski
Then the Strauss's, but mostly Johann Jr, Mussorgski, Mahler, Tchaikovsky...
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