Favourite Classical Composer
Forget modern music, who's your favourite classical composer?
[Poll coming shortly]
New Sancrosanctia
07-03-2005, 02:34
Forget modern music, who's your favourite classical composer?
[Poll coming shortly]
Dvorak! what what!
New Granada
07-03-2005, 02:35
Beethoven of course.
Bach,
Mussorgsky I like also.
Copland has his masterpiece, sibelius i enjoy.
Jordaxia
07-03-2005, 02:36
Mozart. You absolutely cannot top the Requiem.
only one T in mozart though.... :P
Mozart, of course! Who doesn't like his "Turkish March"?
Mozart. You absolutely cannot top the Requiem.
only one T in mozart though.... :P
Oh no! Bah, I'm shamed. Mod edit please....
Nimzonia
07-03-2005, 02:38
Mussorgsky.
Mozart is dull as hell.
Arribastan
07-03-2005, 02:38
Other: Strauss
So many, so little poll room!
I just posted the first 9 that came to mind.
Mystic Mindinao
07-03-2005, 02:44
Tchakovsky is my favorite.
Babelyon
07-03-2005, 02:46
Based on the poll, I am assuming you are referring to "Classical" in the general sense of the word and not as in music composed ca. 1750-1820ish.
Favorite Composer: John Rutter (nothing can top his Requiem)
Close Seconds: Johann de Meij, Antonin Dvorak
SopranoDos
07-03-2005, 02:47
Does Holst qualify for classical? Because if he does thats my pick.
Based on the poll, I am assuming you are referring to "Classical" in the general sense of the word and not as in music composed ca. 1750-1820ish.
Favorite Composer: John Rutter (nothing can top his Requiem)
Close Seconds: Johann de Meij, Antonin Dvorak
Yea, I mean generally anything orchestral(ish) before about 1920. So Baroque through to Romantic.
Does Holst qualify for classical? Because if he does thats my pick.
Yep. See, there are just too many!
I don't know if they count, but Puccini and Verdi. And I second Wagner.
I don't know if they count, but Puccini and Verdi.
It all counts. Anything that isn't "pop" or hasn't been for the past 80ish years counts.
Greater Wallachia
07-03-2005, 02:54
J.S Bach's organ works are simply the most powerful pieces of music ever written. Bach Rules!
Grieg, fools!
Peer Gynt r0x0rz j00r s0x0rz!
Eutrusca
07-03-2005, 02:58
Forget modern music, who's your favourite classical composer?
Tchikovsky ( sp? ), Wagner, Sibelious ( sp? ) many others. :)
Mekdemia
07-03-2005, 02:59
Other: The Beatles
They're classical, aren't they? I mean, they're frickkin' old, right?
Joshburia
07-03-2005, 03:46
Put me down for Berlioz.
Zebrahood
07-03-2005, 04:06
Well I like Johann Pachelbel's Cannon; Samuel Barber's Adagio Four Strings; Antonio Vivaldi's four seasons; Beethoven's Symphonies 5, 9 and Moonlight Sonata; Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony and Peter Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
Patra Caesar
07-03-2005, 04:09
Chopin
Kinda Sensible people
07-03-2005, 04:12
Brahms, 'cause he wrote Kickass viola parts. The part from the first Serenade last movement (the Rondo) is damn hard, but really fun.
Shashtacowich, List, Mauler, Saent-Sans
Keruvalia
07-03-2005, 06:48
Okie ... I'm sure someone's already pointed out that most of the folks on your poll aren't "Classical" composers, so I'll skip that little lesson.
Oh ... read back ... yeh ... so pre-1920, eh?
From your poll: Dvorak.
My actual answer: Scott Joplin.
Alomogordo
07-03-2005, 06:53
wagner!
Wagner is good, but my favorite has to be Beethoven
Alomogordo
07-03-2005, 06:54
My actual answer: Scott Joplin.
Smart thinking. I love The Entertainer!
Australus
07-03-2005, 07:20
I love Sibelius and that is all there is to it. :)
Beethoven. I was obsessed with him when I was 8, and since then I've gotten over the madly in love with a dead guy part - but he's still my favorite classical music.
Cannot think of a name
07-03-2005, 07:32
You guys pointing out the classical era thing, you know better, you know it more or less means two things and you know what s/he meant...stop showing off...sheesh....
Now, I'm going to toss a rock through my glass house and show off-
Music didn't stop being composed in 1925. Hell, Gershwin was still alive. Bernstien? Britten? What about the minimalists? Glass? Gorecki? There is new music out there, and it really is amongst my favorite. Sure I still dig Beethoven and Bach and Mahler...but I like the new and daring stuff too. Give them some love...
Keruvalia
07-03-2005, 07:48
You guys pointing out the classical era thing, you know better, you know it more or less means two things and you know what s/he meant...stop showing off...sheesh....
Well I am a Music Teacher. :p It's my job ... I'm not showing off.
Music didn't stop being composed in 1925. Hell, Gershwin was still alive. Bernstien? Britten? What about the minimalists? Glass? Gorecki? There is new music out there, and it really is amongst my favorite. Sure I still dig Beethoven and Bach and Mahler...but I like the new and daring stuff too. Give them some love...
To be fair, he did specify. So there! For modern composers, I'd go with Gyorgi Ligeti (he's the guy who wrote the Lux Aeterna featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey). He led explorations into micropolyphony.
Cannot think of a name
07-03-2005, 07:54
Well I am a Music Teacher. :p It's my job ... I'm not showing off.
suuuuuuure your not....;)
To be fair, he did specify. So there! For modern composers, I'd go with Gyorgi Ligeti (he's the guy who wrote the Lux Aeterna featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey). He led explorations into micropolyphony.
I know, it was that specification I was whining about. I think I have to say Reich for me, but only because I lifted a technique from him for my composition final...
Keruvalia
07-03-2005, 07:58
I know, it was that specification I was whining about. I think I have to say Reich for me, but only because I lifted a technique from him for my composition final...
Steve Reich? The Jewish composer? Now that's an excellent choice! Good person to "lift" from. :) The Cave is an amazing body of work. What he does with Hebrew cantillation techniques is amazing.
Cannot think of a name
07-03-2005, 08:09
Steve Reich? The Jewish composer? Now that's an excellent choice! Good person to "lift" from. :) The Cave is an amazing body of work. What he does with Hebrew cantillation techniques is amazing.
I was listening to Shaker Loops and loved the way it worked out. I was writing a sax quartet for Jack Kerouac's (get ready to moan) Dr. Sax and I found this great recording of Jack reading a section where Dr. Sax told Jack what he could expect as he grew up ("You'll stand before a quivering wall of flesh and struggle to explain yourself, that is called love...etc.) and need to compose a beding to it.
So I wrote a waltz that used the loops technique, the bari getting a 2 bar phrase, the tenor a 3, the 2nd alto a 4 etc...The cool thing is that the instructions called for everyone to play to the end of the phrase they where on when the recording stopped. It turned out that it ended at the exact end of one whole cycle, made me look like a genius. That and the choral mobius strip I put right before it (using a set of substitutions so that it perpetually sounded like it was on the edge of resolution. Drove people nuts...)
I miss composition. I'm going back once I'm settled in this other futurless career...
Occidio Multus
07-03-2005, 08:22
VIVALDI
Occidio Multus
07-03-2005, 08:24
Well I am a Music Teacher. :p It's my job ... I'm not showing off.
To be fair, he did specify. So there! For modern composers, I'd go with Gyorgi Ligeti (he's the guy who wrote the Lux Aeterna featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey). He led explorations into micropolyphony.
not showing off. never!!!!!
tg, dr. j
Cannot think of a name
07-03-2005, 08:25
not showing off. never!!!!!
tg, dr. j
I should grant that asking a musician not to show off is like asking them not to breath...
Occidio Multus
07-03-2005, 08:30
I should grant that asking a musician not to show off is like asking them not to breath...
hey now. he is awesome about it. nothing wrong with being smart. i can honestly say Keruvalia has no ego. if he blasts someone on here, its only because he likes spreading actual knowledge, and not idiocy.
Rogue Angelica
07-03-2005, 08:34
None. Classical music all shmucks.
Sorry to those I may have offended--I was one of those Mozart in the womb babies, and I pretty much only listened to classical up until age 9. I'm fucking sick of it. :headbang:
Definetly J.S. Bach
His four part choral hymns (and there are a lot of them) are some of the most simple, and yet most inspired and beautiful, musical selections ever.
Cannot think of a name
07-03-2005, 09:11
hey now. he is awesome about it. nothing wrong with being smart. i can honestly say Keruvalia has no ego. if he blasts someone on here, its only because he likes spreading actual knowledge, and not idiocy.
Easy now-if you look that comment is coming from another musician. Take it in context.
Andaras Prime
07-03-2005, 09:31
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto Number two
that's my favourite composer and track
Cromotar
07-03-2005, 09:37
In order:
Tchaikovsky
Mussorgsky
Vivaldi
Liszt
Chopin
None of which were on the poll. :(
Avro Part is great.
J.S. Bach is fantastic, so much entertaining work, his Choral and Cello Suites are heart-breakingly beautiful.
But my number one favourite has to be Beethoven. He is a goliath, a gigantic and unparalled genius. His 9th Symphony is one of the greatest works of art humanity has ever produced.
Those are my top three, beneath that is a massive collective of classical music artists who I hold in equal high regard to one another.
And where exactly is Faure on that poll? Hm? Hm?
P.S Hayden = HAYDN
Einsteinian Big-Heads
07-03-2005, 12:15
Why the HELL is Vivaldi not an option?
North Island
07-03-2005, 12:25
Ludwig von Beethoven.