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Poll Question: Who is your favorite of these favorite composers of mine?
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    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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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.
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Mahler
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Prokofiev
Shostakovich
Try string quartet no 8
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1. Philip Glass
2. Shostakovich
3. Prokofiev

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1. Elgar

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 12 2025 at 10:22
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For me:

1) Beethoven
2) Britten
3) Mozart
4) Vaughan-Williams
5) Greig

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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...
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Bach
Brahms (poll vote)
Chopin
Griffes
Mozart
Mussorgsky
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My Top 10 doesn't really change:

Beethoven
Brahms
Schubert
Mozart
Mahler
Sibelius
Vaughan-Williams
Bruckner
Mendelssohn
R. Strauss
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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
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It said I've already voted here, but it's impossible. Weird, unless my account has been hacked.   
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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).   
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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.
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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
I voted for Tchaikovsky, who was a big influence on Stravinsky, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.



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Rachmaninoff and Chopin are two of my favorites.
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If we're talking about pre-classical composers, then I'd have to cite Thomas Tallis, Vivaldi, and J S Bach as my favourites.
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Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

If we're talking about pre-classical composers, then I'd have to cite Thomas Tallis, Vivaldi, and J S Bach as my favourites.
There's a Classical period in the history of Classical Music, but composers of the Baroque (and the Renaissance) Era is also Classical Music.
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