Classical Composers

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no one has mentioned the early Romantic genius from Germany , Carl Maria von Weber
         he was related to Mozart, was an early musical hero of Berlioz's, and , well, most importantly, he was a contemporary of Beethoven's and the next german composer in importance to Beethoven during Beethoven's lifetime
             he wrote some lovely operas, and opera overtures, overlooked are his solo piano and piano concerto works, which are lovely and quite striking
            would highly recommend the piano concertos with Roland Keller or Peter Rosel on the piano, and the solo works for piano with Hans Kann

BaldJean wrote: I am fine with voting for a different composer. I am not fine with calling Mozart "pop" in comparison to the others. does the person who wrote this know that a) Mozart was the first free-lancing composer (all others worked for some Noblemen) and b) that he had problems selling his works, simply because it was not what the people wanted. that's just the opposite of "pop"

progrules wrote: :) I'm not surprised Stravinsky leads this poll and Mozart is way below since first mentioned is the eclectic progger amongst the classical composers and Mozart more like the pop artist (without wanting to be disrespectful here).

The T wrote: Mahler's 6th, 1st, 5th and 8th are my favorites. Bernstein rules them.

Don't discount Tilson Thomas' version of the 6th--I prefer it, at least.

lucas wrote: ^ and Mozart's requiem is far from the "poppiest" classical music I ever heard... I think it's rather the lack of knowledge of his music that leads to vote for another composer.   And I am tired of those attacks on "pop" music. There is a lot of pop music that is brilliant, while there is a lot of prog rock that is pure bulls**t.

   Good post   Mozart is not my cup of tea but I must recognize he was a great musician. Agree with you too about the attacks over pop music. Nothing is absloutely black or white.

stonebeard wrote: progrules wrote: :) I'm not surprised Stravinsky leads this poll and Mozart is way below since first mentioned is the eclectic progger amongst the classical composers and Mozart more like the pop artist (without wanting to be disrespectful here). And so it's no surprise that progfans vote like this. And it is also, sadly, no surprise prog fans would make this connection or support the less popular over the more talented.

Prog rock music has structurally more in common with the music of the Baroque and of the late Romantic/Modern era than with the Classical era, so it does not surprise me that their protagonists Bach and Stravinsky are in the lead. They are also my favourites (with a slight preference for Stravinsky) .