Favorite Classical Composers Poll
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Topic: Favorite Classical Composers Poll
Posted By: presdoug
Subject: Favorite Classical Composers Poll
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 08:21
| In my love for classical music, I have listed my favorite composers of it; who is your fave of the bunch? These are not the only ones I like, but my faves.... |
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 08:24
| Bruckner is my all time favorite composer. His Symphonies and Great Choral Works speak to me like no other musician, and he has been my favorite since I discovered his music in 1985. For me, his last 3 symphonies are THE greatest orchestral works ever written. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 09:06
| Mahler |
Posted By: Mikich
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 09:32
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Prokofiev Shostakovich Try string quartet no 8 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 10:21
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1. Philip Glass 2. Shostakovich 3. Prokofiev From the poll choices... 1. Elgar |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 11:31
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For me: 1) Beethoven 2) Britten 3) Mozart 4) Vaughan-Williams 5) Greig ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 11:37
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^^nice of some of you folks to chime in with favorites not listed; I had meant to put an Other option, but couldn't as I had already set thing up and voted myself.... ^I have Shostakovich's 3rd and 9th String Quartets, will check the 8th one... |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 12:53
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Bach Brahms (poll vote) Chopin Griffes Mozart Mussorgsky Satie ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 13:12
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My Top 10 doesn't really change: Beethoven Brahms Schubert Mozart Mahler Sibelius Vaughan-Williams Bruckner Mendelssohn R. Strauss ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 13:30
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Ranking your poll choices: 1. Bruckner 2. Elgar 3. Brahms 4. Beethoven 5. Mahler 6. Tchaikovsky 7. R. Strauss 8. Berlioz |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 12 2025 at 14:40
It said I've already voted here, but it's impossible. Weird, unless my account has been hacked. 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 00:14
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Aargh... I wrote a long post and PA timed out or whatever when I tried to publish it. I'll try and reconstruct it when I have the time. Beethoven here undoubtly (but I do love plenty of Mahler and Brahms). Dmitri Shostakovich is my personal favorite. All of his 15 String Quartets are sublime. Perhaps 3, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 in particular. I prefer his Chamber Symphonies, Violin + Cello Concertos, String Octets, Piano Quintet & Trios over his Symphonies. But I'm not primarily into Symphonies (I guess except when they are composed by Beethoven & Mahler). |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 02:05
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^ With Shostacovich, Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler already mentioned, 15 additional favorite composers are: Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi (late) Franz Schubert (early) Krzysztof Penderecki Frédéric Chopin Arvo Part Peteris Vasks Béla Bartók Alessandro Scarlatti Kaija Saariaho Valentyn Sylvesterov Luigi Boccherini Morton Feldman Sulkhan Tsintsadze Jan Dismas Zelenka There's others. I know I've forgotten a few essential ones. |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 05:30
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Igor Stravinsky Maurice Ravel Claude Debussy Frances Poulenc Darius Milhaud Milton Babbit Karlheinz Stockhausen John Cage Charles Wuorinen Edgar Varese Steve Reich Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Modeste Mussorgsky William Grant Still Terry Riley |