And your favorite composer is...

This was music in school, we do nothing. :D

I feel temped to post in this thread for the third time.

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Grieg, Dvorak, Holst, Borodin.

Yup.

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I'm just gonna list any that come to my mind at this moment that i love..

Shostakovich

Kabalevsky

Schoenberg

Debussy

Dvorak

Ravel

Bach!

Rebecca Clarke

Prokofiev

Brahms

....that's from today..just you WAIT 'til tomorrow...

Shostakovich. Favoring Bartok lately, as well. Also, Prokofiev and Bach.

Frank Ticheli!!!

Puccini

Brahms, or possibly Bach, or Rachmaninoff, this really isn't fair, can I have twenty?

Well, I have no favorite composer....

though my favorite composer of Shostakovitch music is Shostakovitch. My favorite Stravinsky music composer is Stravinsky. For Verdi's music, my favorite composer is Verdi. Beethoven is the best Beethoven music composer....and so forth :shifty:.

One name that stands out to me is John Cheetham...his sonata for tuba and piano is simply awesome.

I simply can't choose one. Ravel, Brahms, Stravinsky, and Gershwin all stand out in my mind and heart.

I love the sequence earlier on of:

Frank Zappa

Mozart

(although i do like both...Zappa more though)

Here are some of my favs .. though I'm sure you heard of none of them.

Wolgang Beethoven

Yohan Handel

Felix Brahms

Fredrich Mendelssohn

I'm particularly fond of

Leonard Bernstein

Aaron Copland

Samuel Barber (come on, who can honestly say he's not on their list?)

Howard Hanson (despite some nasty things I've read about his personal life)

Giacomo Puccini

Jan Sibelius

to name a few, only.

it's so hard to select a "few"... there are just too many incredible geniuses out there.

I do enjoy a bit of Vivaldi sometimes, it's nice background music, when I don't want to be too taxed when listening :P

It changes on an almost hourly basis...

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Rebecca Clarke

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Lemme guess, you're a violist?

Brahms

Beethoven

Mahler

Mozart (mainly his operas, alot of his instrumental music I can't stand)

Schoenberg

Berg

Stravinsky

Lemme guess, you're a violist?

Cellist actually.

How about Buxtehude? http://www.rodneyjantzi.com/media/Preludium,%20Fuga%20und%20Ciacona%20C%20Major%20-%20Buxtehude.wma

Prokofiev (piano concerto #3, my favorite piece) followed by Rimsky-Korsakov(Sheherazade,Its late so I can't spell).

For those who know me, you'll know my response.

Yes, Vivaldi's my favorite. Can't you cut him a little slack at least once in a while?

A number of years back, I was teaching in a music camp. The camp orchestra and chorus sang a Vivaldi "Gloria".

One of the other piano teachers and myself (I was teaching composition) did a little comedy sketch called "Vivaldi in the age of Xerox"... we had a pile of paper at the piano, one of us played the opening phrase of the Vivaldi Gloria... over and over and over again, as the other one turned a single page at each repetition of the main theme.

A number of years back, I was teaching in a music camp. The camp orchestra and chorus sang a Vivaldi "Gloria".

One of the other piano teachers and myself (I was teaching composition) did a little comedy sketch called "Vivaldi in the age of Xerox"... we had a pile of paper at the piano, one of us played the opening phrase of the Vivaldi Gloria... over and over and over again, as the other one turned a single page at each repetition of the main theme.

I don't quite get what you mean there qc, mind explaining?

I don't quite get what you mean there qc, mind explaining?

if you know the piece in question, the opening is rather repetitive.

That sounds hilarious, beats the sketches the idiotic leaders put on on scout camps by far ;)

Oh, cut the man some slack... that gloria is beautiful... and he only repeats the opening three times at first.... while he has a very distinctive style, he was able to create great variety from a very strict format.