And your favorite composer is...

I love your avatar, KiwiMuso :closedeyes:....

ibert,

Tchaikovsky and Brahms hands down.

Here are my favorite Composers, and the pieces I've enjoyed hearing most (in parethesis)

Camille Saint Saens (Danse Macabre), Modest Muggorsky(sp) Pictures at an Exhibition)) , Pyter Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto in Dmajor), Johannes Brahms (The Hungarian Rhapsodys), Carl Von Weber (Invitation to the Dance), Henryk Wienawski (Violin Concertos in F# minor, and D minor), Chopin (24 Preludes ) ... just to list a few.

Brahms and Mahler

Can't pick. If pressed I'd likely answer either Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Sakuraba, Brahms, Beethoven, or Bach though.

I like Borodin, Tchaikovsky. Stravinsky. Liszt. Dvorak. Yeah.

Gorecki, Mozart, Satie, Philip Glass, Ravel, Rachmaninov

I am a lover of the baroque period of music.

In no particular order, and not including Bach, I am particularly fond of the following, each for their specialties (excluding Lully's operas and ballets).

Antonio Vivaldi, Dietrich Buxtehude, Francois Couperin, Jean-Baptiste Lully. Some others can be mentioned but these names mentioned are "heavyweights" of the baroque music.

Dvorak, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Vaughn Williams, and so on and so on.

Dvorak, definitely. Every single one of that man's symphonies are phenominal. Not to mention his chamber music. The Dumky Piano Trio is incredible.

Chopin hands down

then maybe rachmaninov then beethoven

Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue!), Beethoven, mozart

Mine is Dvorak.

Hmm, difficult.

Albinoni, Bach, Faure, Saint-Saens, Shostakovich, Schnittke, Hindemith, Gorecki, Piazzolla, Ph. Glass, Preisner...to name a few.

What Mano :) It's not Sideris? :D:D

Ok favourite???

So difficult, so difficult...

Prokofiev, Schinttke, Etlux (!), Radiohead. Composers I listen to every day.

but of course depends on the day and the mood as well. Lots of times I go throuh a classical or baroque period, where Bach and Beethoven, and Mozart and Brahms rule!

Ah well... :toothygrin:

Frank Zappa.

Mozart

Mahler, Stravinsky, Bruckner and Dvorak. Lists of favorite pieces would definitely include a lot of other composers' works, but these are the ones whose general output and style draws me in the most.

Hmmmmm . . . . I have no idea. I also do not think that it is fair to compair Bach to Shore or Beethoven to Schoenberg because of the completely different styles. So, I think I will list my favorite for each era or genre of classical music.

Pre-Baroque: William Byrd

Baroque: either Bach or Handel (I really have a hard time deciding)

Classical: Beethoven

Romantic: Grieg or Rachmaninoff (I might have thrown Tchaikovsky in there too - this is another impossible choice)

Impressionist: Debussy (Ravel)

American/Contemporary: Barber, Berstein, or Copland (probably Barber overall and this is probably the most diffucult to chose because I am such a huge fan of the classical American composers)

Modern: Prokofiev (just about the only one of this era that I really like)

Film score: Howard Shore, Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone, or Thomas Newman (I am Shore's #1 fan so yes it is Shore as my favorite, but I just had to mention that I loved the others too)

Opera: Without a doubt it is Puccini (as far as the music goes Tourandot is the best opera ever)

Overall top 5 of all genres (probably?):

- Debussy

- Barber

- Shore

- Rachmaninoff

- Grieg

(Berstein and Ravel :P)

What Mano :o It's not Sideris?

Not (yet)! :P :P

Radiohead? That's an interesting addition! :P

In no particular order:

Bach

Beethoven

Brahms

Grieg

Rachmaninoff

Shore

In no particular order:

Bach

Beethoven

Brahms

Grieg

Rachmaninoff

Shore

Hey, that wasn't 'in no particular order'! This is clearly alphabetical! Almost chronological as well! :D

Dammit, caught me out, you're way quicker than my music teacher :D

Dammit, caught me out, you're way quicker than my music teacher :D

I don't want to know what kind of music lessons you and your teacher have... ;)