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Stravinsky
Ligeti
Shostakovich

Those are the three that came to mind first. 
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1. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (aka 'Mendelssohn).  Wink
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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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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Originally posted by tarkus1980 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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Oh, I forgot Debussy.  That was silly.
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1. Bach
2. Chopin
3. Schubert

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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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There aren't very many classical composers.
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Originally posted by tarkus1980 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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Originally posted by Dorsalia Dorsalia wrote:

There aren't very many classical composers.
What are you getting at?
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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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Originally posted by tamijo 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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Points: 933 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2010 at 15:08
Originally posted by Bitterblogger Bitterblogger wrote:

Originally posted by Dorsalia 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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