And your favorite composer is...

Mendelssohn, Telemann, Rameau, Scarlatti =)

J.S.Bach - Brahms - Elgar - Borodin & ... !

My fav composers are Koji Kondo, then Puccini, then Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Verdi, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Stravinsky.

Hmm... that was almost two years ago.

K first of all, Kondo is rly unique and has some of the most memorable melodies ever (part of me liking him a lot comes from childhood nostalgia as well), but what he's done just can't compare to other 'serious' works.

I like over the top, melodramatic, bittersweet, italian and hungarian/gypsy influenced music, and I don't care if people call my musical tastes simplistic. Give me Italian opera any time - Traviata's dramatic, heartwrenching second act, Butterfly's suicide scene, all the scenes with Iago in Verdi's Otello. Throw all your Wieniawski and Sarasate at me with their awesome violin portamento ear candy. If those guys are shallow, you can start calling me Blond Teenage Bimbo. Even Brahms can sometimes sound cold to me next to those guys.

And of course, Paganini. The second concerto blows (except the third movement) but the fourth is decent (especially the second movement) and the first and fifth concertos are awesome pieces of melodrama (the fifth only in the orchestration that comes with the Accardo version). 'oooh, it sucks, it's simplistic non-polyphonic music.' I'll be taking a dump on the carpet the day I care about stuff like that.

Achrom's Hebrew Melody, as performed by Josef Hassid, is about as far as feeling can go in music, to my ears. Screw Mahler and his pompous orchestrations - I only really like it in the concert hall for the aural effect. I'd rather just take his Adagietto from the 5th symphony. Wagner would be better if he understood the concept of pace, and decent libretto writing. The Tanh

Mendelssohn, Telemann, Rameau, Scarlatti =)

im just wondering why Mendelssohn is so special that he pops up as the only non-baroque composer. :)

Because Mendelssohn was the champion of Bach's music. And because he is an indisputable beast and my most favoritest composer now. Beethoven has become number 2.

And no.. I'm not going to cite his Violin Concerto in E minor as my reason. Rather, his 3rd, 4th and 5th symphonies along with his newly discovered Piano Concerto in E minor and his F minor string quartet are the main reasons.

Oh yeah.. and I am completely addicted to Schumann's Violin Concerto (which receives so little attention compared to its beauty).

Because Mendelssohn was the champion of Bach's music.

RIGHT! why havent i thought of that!:P

Easily any of the Russians.

I don't have a single favourtie...but rather a number of favourites that swing in and out of favour.

They include:

Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, to name a few.

But at the moment, Chopin wins hands down...this will change in a few weeks I'm sure.

just wondering, do you guys like a composer because his music is brilliant, or because you just love the sound of his music and it's style?

just wondering, do you guys like a composer because his music is brilliant, or because you just love the sound of his music and it's style?

The latter.

Brilliance means nothing if the music doesn't sound good. I'll take a powerful but simple piece over a brilliantly complex one any day.

The latter.

Brilliance means nothing if the music doesn't sound good. I'll take a powerful but simple piece over a brilliantly complex one any day.

Amen!

Can't stand the people that say my musical tastes are 'ordinary and simple'.

John Williams.

Clint Mansell.

Hans Zihmmer? Is that how you spell it?

Howard Shore.

Stevie Wonder.

Hans Zihmmer? Is that how you spell it?

Hans Zimmer, I believe.

I love both Scott Joplin and Antonin Dvorak but they are very different so I have a hard time picking between them.

Claude Debussy, Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus,

Sergei Prokofiev.

yeah man!!

I can't pick just one...so

"Classical" Guys:

Rachmaninoff

Berlioz

Stravinsky

Richard Strauss

Bruckner

Prokofiev (Pre-Frightened of Stalin)

Debussy

Film Music:

Goldsmith

Hermann

Tyler

Shore

Hisaishi

Bernstein

Newton Howard

Elfman

Poledouris

You didn't specify the Strauss (though judging by your other choices I assume it's Richard.)

Fixed.

Yeah. Ever since I heard Salome I've been a fan.

I would have to say vivaldi as my favorite.

||Nikolas Sideris||

Robin Jessome - trombonist, composer, improvisor

Dos Blanc Accueil

These guys are awesome too

current obsession is hildegard of bingen...

HAHAHA... TG,

:blush:

Ives and Mussorgsky.

Dear god I'll be up all night.

Ben Britten, Prokofyev, Toru Takemitsu, Bela Bartok, Arnold Schonberg, Igor Stravinsky, Aleksandr Skryabin, Ludwig van Beethoven, J. S. Bach, Gustav Mahler, Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikowsy, Camille Saint-Saens, Olivier Messiaen, Tan Dun, Karol Szymanowski, Arvo Part, Gyorgy Szandor Ligeti, Krzyzsztof Penderecki, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Anton Webern, Paul Hindemith, Andre Jolivet, Sofia Gubaidulina, Richard Strauss, Kalevi Aho, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Modest Mussorgsky, Alban Berg, Bohuslav Martinu, Iannis Xenakis, Leoš Jan