supreme compositions and composers

Brahms also burned alot of his earlier stuff as well!

(I'm going to be getting the score to all of his symphonies!!!) whoooooo whooooooooooo!

I agree with Caltech's alterations, except for dropping Purcell. He was the most important English composer of the second half of the 17th Century, and he single-handedly saved English music from the draconian privations of Puritanism. He was a great innovator, a unique and individual voice, and he's another one who, had he lived another thirty years, would have changed the face of music as we know it.

Shostakovich Greatest symphonist of the 20th century, why do I love him? Because he never went as far as the modernist, he didn't go all atonal, he had an unique style, he still composes in a rather distorted sonato form, his symphonies are more than great, first time in human history, we hear history the same time we hear his music, almost every piece he has written, i can hear the ruthless Stalinist regime suppressing and killing innocent people, truly, he is the greatest composer of the 20th century, atleast he has my vote.

p.s he is a renaissance man, he composed orchestral music, piano music, chamber, film, jazz, etc, very gifted.

BEETHOVEN - Please: Beethoven IS the greatest composer of all time. While Mozart was the voice of God, Beethoven was the voice of mankind. The Sturm und Drang movement was exaggerated a little bit and turned into Beethoven's middle period. However, his later years are the greatest. The Hammerklavier, the Ninth Symphony (with the EU anthem Ode to Joy) and his last string quartets are possibly the greatest music ever. Such a genius that he wrote the greatest of music while being totally deaf, unable to hear anything but the sounds that came from his own heart. What a man, my friends, and a what a soul!

I don't know how I can express how happy I was to read this. You seem to have put words to a number of issues that I've been thinking about for years. His late String Quartets are some of the most profound and ever-lasting compositions of all time, and represent, in my opinion, the most beautiful, emotional, and profound music ever composed. Beethoven was an an artist in the word's truest sense. Mozart could write music, but Beethoven achieved greater emotional depths in his music than Mozart ever could conceive of. Mozart is extremely pretty, Beethoven is extremely significant to the human experience.

Beethoven is the greatest composer of all time in this poster's mind!

Schoenberg was quite the opposite of harmonically retarded. He set up a school teaching all about the new harmonies he created. Don't get me wrong, his music is God awful, but laughing at it would be like pointing a finger at some mentally handicapped guy in a wheelchair.

haha... I'm starting to actually find humour in the stuff you post here Nico. ;)

It's very harsh the way you put it, but I guess there's something to be said for brutal honesty.

Bach does it for me. Everything he produced just... hm. I can't really articulate it :P But he's my favourite.

Then either Beethoven or Tchaikovsky followed closely by Mozart :)

*after looking back on thread*

Amazing lack of Tchaikovsky! :P

Tchaikovsky is a wanker.

uhhhhhhhhh...... what's a wanker?

Supreme? well that is easy, no doubt, it is Arvo Part.

A wanker is someone whose music I don't like.