Favorite Composer?

[kenneth]

If I had to spend the rest of my life, with only recordings of one composer, my choice would be Bach.

 

[mdith4him]

I love Rachmaninov. His Piano Concherto #2 is my favorite piece of music ever composed!

~M-dith~

 

[Turpius]

Sibelius followed closely by Brahms, Mozart, and Bach

 

[wings8888]

Debussy ... Bach is a close second. Just like the musical sentences that Debussy puts out in all of his music.
~wings~

 

[zoe_uu]

Mozart

 

[LeftBehind]

it is too hard to choose a favorite composer.

 

[Murmur]

Bach.

 

[ElisaMozart]

My number 1 composer is Mozart but hes not there so i have to pick beethoven-ravel and debussy,i also like brahms and other not very known or populair composers,it depense on the mood but Mozart is my favorite!

 

[eaglex]

Mine is MOzart and someone forgot to list him.

 

[Ceccia]

hehe. There's no way I could pick just one, or even three...

Mozart
Offenbach
Bizet
Telemann
Bach
Handel
Purcell
Dowland
Sullivan
Brahms

 

[ElisaMozart]

good choice !

 

[Illuminatus]

I'm definately a fan of Rachmaninoff, but I'd have to say Wagner.

 

[catch22]

It's Mozart for me for sure. I wish I had more of his music. I like to listen to Requieum before I write.

 

[dudeoffaith1]

Bach is okay, but I like Bela Bartok

 

[DrFate]

Mozart, Yes, if I could only choose one.

 

[FrancisIsMyBulldog]

Mozart and Bach are tied for #1

 

[Fed]

Beethoven, but no one has mentioned Liszt?

 

[BelleChantress]

Wooo! I <3 Beethoven! I really like playing his theme and variation pieces. Schubert is awesome, too. I am just starting to get into some of his stuff....pretty pretty pieces. And Mozart. But I really am not a big Bach fan. I mean, I like Tocotta and Fugue...even though its horribly hard to play...but his inventions just annoy me. Ick.

 

[FreedomForMe]

Has to be beethoven, he changed music history forever. I enjoy baroque music like bach, handel, vivaldi, telemann, but the orchestra was not fully developed until later. I enjoy romantic composers too but I find their musical ideas to be very complex, the music very long, and the music just seems to take on a different sound. Beethoven, perhaps began to bring about this change, while still being in the classical era, he developed some wonderful music ideas that were so creative and very different from others. Among his works, 9 wonderful symphonies (the eroica, and the chorale being the hardest one's to get used to because they are the longest and most complex, but wonderful symphonies after you get used to them), 5 opused piano concertos (he wrote one more that is rarely ever performed or played, 32 piano sonatas, eleven overtures, one violin concerto, one opera, and a whole lot more.

 

[FreedomForMe]

here, a short quiz, i'll come on tomorrow or so and reveal the answer.
Pretty much everybody knows beethovens third symphony is the eroica, and his ninth is the choral, and his sixth is the pastoral. But his other symphonies also have nicnames. His fifth is the fate symphony, he wrote it when his deafness was in an advanced stage. Anybody know the nicname of his seventh???