And your favorite composer is...

hi, my favorite composer is Andrey Rubtsov. what's yours?

That's a very difficult question!

If I have to choose only one that has influenced me the most, I would say...prokofiev. He may be a big gun, but he has a hold on me that I have to work hard not to get too caught up in! (and find my own voice) Golly, though, it's hard not to pick so many others, like Stravinsky or Debussy.

Andrey Rubtsov is so young and so accomplished! I'm not sure who my favorite "new" composer is (depending on how you define new). That would take me a bit longer to decide because there are so many still alive and kicking and creating.

John Cage.

you must be a big fan if you like silence that much to chose him as your favorite

I prefer 2 inparticular I couldn't just choose one

Ferdinando Carulli and

Franz Liszt

My favorites (sorry, can't pick just one) are Debussy, Stravinsky, Gershwin, and one of my favorite pieces is by Clifton Williams, though I haven't heard anything else he's done.

Ooh, and Palmgren has piqued my interest, too.

Sergei Prokofiev.

Favorite composer: Brahms, Borodin a close second.

Favorite active composer: Charles Knox.

I would have to go with Malcolm Arnold (not that well heard of) and for new composer I'd have to go with Eric Whitacre he single handedly turned me on to a cappella.

I would have to go with Malcolm Arnold (not that well heard of) and for new composer I'd have to go with Eric Whitacre he single handedly turned me on to a cappella.

I love his Ghost Train and October pieces. I've talked to him before too :P

Malcolm Arnold also has some pretty sweet dance suites.

Shostakovich,

Though there are many other composers that I still need to hear very much more closely.

At this time Dimitri is the most favorable to me.

We have similar tastes, Alex Pope (oh and thanks for the comments in chamber music!)

Shostakovich,

Though there are many other composers that I still need to hear very much more closely.

At this time Dimitri is the most favorable to me.

I couldn't agree more. Shostakovich's music has fascinated me for over ten years now, though I must admit that recently I haven't listened to much. I shall put that right, in Shostakovich's centenery year!

Oh, can you send one to me? *grin*

I am wondering what kind of a 'concert' I will have on the day...

24 hours of Shostakovich's music. Yum!

Hey hey, include me! Hell, give me a shovel, I'll drag him to the party.

Hey, less of the shovels! I expect no less than a JCB to allow himself to attend the party!

Shovel, indeed! *grin*

I really prefer Antonio Vivaldi.

Secondaries are Chopin, Scott Joplin and Dacqin

Alex pope,a Shostakovich shirt that would be very ;) I would wear one.

I can understand the fascination david.

The pieces that I have listened to are intense and moving with wavering intertwining melodies.

It is to me encapsulating beyond an horizon and does not let one go.

Music from Shostakovich where would this centenery year concert be held?

Or have misunderstood what was said.

Well, the concert I was refering to was the selection I will make from my library of CDs. If we can get a nice studio (comfy chairs, fridge for the beer, somewhere to cook food etc.), then we could host a small private celebratory function for the listening of Shostakovich's music.

There will, I'm sure, be several concerts of his music on or around the day of his birthday.

Edit: I say a studio, as it would be an injustice to play his music for such an occasion on a sound system that is anything less than studio quality.

Well, the concert I was refering to was the selection I will make from my library of CDs. If we can get a nice studio (comfy chairs, fridge for the beer, somewhere to cook food etc.), then we could host a small private celebratory function for the listening of Shostakovich's music.

There will, I'm sure, be several concerts of his music on or around the day of his birthday.

Edit: I say a studio, as it would be an injustice to play his music for such an occasion on a sound system that is anything less than studio quality.

I'll try to talk my school into doing something. Exactly when is the date?

Korsakov, and Dvorak.

Hey, I still remember one night, a few days before I started med school, dreaming about showing up on the first day of class and finding that Dmitry Shostakovich was giving a biochemistry lecture...

Borodin. :)

My favourite composers are Beethoven and Rachmaninoff and followed by Bortkiewicz, Glazunov, Taneyev and Elgar.

Bortkiewicz, Glazunov, Taneyev and Elgar.

Woot, there's a few you don't hear often. Good composers.