Favorite Composer?

[FreedomForMe]

and the answer would be,,,,,,,, 'the apotheosis of light.' i have no idea what that means, nor why it got named that but after the symphony was published that was what it was named. some symphonies are named things and we either don't know what the name is, or in the case of mozart's jupiter symphony, we know what it is named but have no idea why it was named that. but it's all interesting stuff.

 

[Carmack]

Mahler
Liszt
Rachmaninoff
Bruckner

 

[theinfiniteweird]

Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig VonBeethoven
Igor Stravinsky
Aaron Copeland
John Phillip Sousa
John Williams
Johann Sebastian Bach
Arnold Schoenberg
Sir Arthur Pryor
Johaness Brahms
Antonio Vivaldi
George Gershwin

Wow. Comprehensive. I'm sure there are some from earlier music history I'm not remembering.

 

[theinfiniteweird]

Anybody know the nicname of his seventh???

I learned that in Music History. And his second, also. I can't remember now, though. Hmm...I'll look it up but won't post it.

 

[theinfiniteweird]

and the answer would be,,,,,,,, 'the apotheosis of light.'

Unless i'm remembering wrong, that's not it, or that's another name I didn't learn about. maybe i learned the nic to his eighth. That's probably it.

 

[sjpianoprincess]

Beethoven and Chopin.

 

[TheMagi]

Hmmm. Rachmaninov? (probably biased... I just bought his symphonies) perhaps Beethoven?
With
Schubert,
Monterverdi,
Vivaldi,
Brahms,
Tchaikovsky,
and Pope Gregory, or rather him and all the other people who wrote it...

 

[freyajem]

To ask me to choose one is agony. I love them all plus those missed.

My alltime favorite is not there - Rachmaninov (probably not spelled right)

But oh dear, who can choose from such lovelies?

 

[JesseRaymondBassett]

Hi,

I like Beethoven the best. Good stuff there!

 

[Maeyken]

I like Vivaldi the best, but Mozart is another favourite. Handel's got some stuff I enjoy (including "The Messiah"), and Bach and Beethoven also have some stuff I enjoy. Actually, most composers have *something* I enjoy!

 

[mrcrow]

rv williams..then elgar

 

[cygnusx1]

I love Bach ........... his music is so ....... mathematical , more like a finely woven tapestry that is uniformly splendid , I think his music is like strange Geometry

 

[Diane_Windsor]

Mozart, Rachmoninoff, Joel (yes, as in Billy Joel)-pick up Fantasies and Delusions

 

[The Shasta]

Ravel.



ALL of his string quartets are AMAZING

 

[elenas_flickaby]

Schumann and Brahms

 

[Kouzelnik]

Ravel.



ALL of his string quartets are AMAZING

All one of them?

 

[Kas]

You know this really should be a celebration of Christian culture as most of these great composers were Christian, and I think we should claim them as such and be proud of our history!!

Kas.

 

[Dewi Sant]

Vivaldi Rules!
Sure you have all heard of his Four Seasons.(Which are amazing) but if you want to hear really good pieces listen to some of his choral workds like the Gloria in D minor and his Magnificat (can't remember the key)
They are Amazing!

 

[vivabrahms]

Gosh its hard to narrow it down to those only. i voted Debussy but right now my favorite is BRAHMS, Schubert is sweet too!

 

[mini_mim]

Oh my goodness, this is soooo tough, I know I'm gonna forget loads, but I'll give it a go....

To sing: Mozart, Puccini, Gershwin, Rossini, Bizet

To play on piano: DEBUSSY hands down! also Brahms, Scriabin, and Bach if I'm in the right mood for it!

To play on violin: Brahms, Bach, Vivaldi

To listen to: all the above, plus Rachmaninoff, Elgar, Saint-Saens, Grieg, Handel, Shostakovich, Part, Mahler, ok i'm gonna stop now, this is much too hard