Rank your favorite composers ...

[SAM992]

No specific number in mind, just list the names of your favorite composers in order of most favorite... This isn't easy and my list adjusts from time to time, but this has been where it's settled for the past year or so..

There are surely 100's of them, but narrow it down to top 10 +/- or so.. Clearly I favor the Baroque period, but any period from Mid-evil to modern is game.


Mine:

-Vivaldi
-Beethoven
-Bach
-Handel
-Purcell
-Albinoni
-Hyden
-R. Strauss
-Copeland
-Mozart
-Mendelsohn
-Holst
-Gluck
-Verdi
-Chopin
-Greig

[Audioraven]

My top 3 would be BACH, MOZART and BEETHOVEN.

[bart]

Originally Posted by Audioraven

My top 3 would be BACH, MOZART and BEETHOVEN.

Probably also the ones I listen to the most, but thank God we have alternatives.
Sometimes I prefer Händel to Bach (when I'm in a certain mood).
Haydn to Mozart (idem).
Schubert to Beethoven (idem).

Sometimes it can be a modern evening (like Corigliani, Saariaho), at other times it is a medieval evening, or a Russian one.

We live in a glorious time to discover music, it is so accessible and it has never sounded better.

[FreddieFerric]

Vaughn Williams
Maurice Ravel
George Frideric Handel
Frederic Chopin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by bart

Probably also the ones I listen to the most, but thank God we have alternatives.

Sometimes I prefer Händel to Bach (when I'm in a certain mood).

Haydn to Mozart (idem).

Schubert to Beethoven (idem).



Sometimes it can be a modern evening (like Corigliani, Saariaho), at other times it is a medieval evening, or a Russian one.



We live in a glorious time to discover music, it is so accessible and it has never sounded better.

[emoji106]

[PHC1]

Oh wow, that's a tough question.

Not sure I can rank them as there are way too many composers spanning seven centuries with such a diverse amount of music.

Besides the universally popular composers, some of which are on your list, I like the German and Italian composers but I will add the missing Russian composers which I also enjoy...

There are not many from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Period but starting from the Romantic period, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Borodin, Glazunov.

From the modern era, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and I am sure I am missing a few...

So many composers, so much music... One can get lost in it and spend a lifetime getting to know it...

[SAM992]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Oh wow, that's a tough question.

Not sure I can rank them as there are way too many composers spanning seven centuries with such a diverse amount of music.

Besides the universally popular composers, some of which are on your list, I like the German and Italian composers but I will add the missing Russian composers which I also enjoy...

There are not many from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Period but starting from the Romantic period, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Borodin, Glazunov.

From the modern era, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and I am sure I am missing a few...

So many composers, so much music... One can get lost in it and spend a lifetime getting to know it...

yeah, it's hard to rank honestly... but it's clear I'm more a Baroque listener for example and you're a Romantic / modern listener..

But I do like just about all of it ...

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by SAM992

yeah, it's hard to rank honestly... but it's clear I'm more a Baroque listener for example and you're a Romantic / modern listener..

But I do like just about all of it ...

Oh, I listen to Baroque. I find the Baroque period instruments very engaging. A period correct instrument recording is always a treat. What I meant above is that there are many more Russian Romantic and Modern period composers than there were of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque period. I'm not 100% on that but I think Baroque and earlier periods were dominated by the Italian composers?

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by PHC1

I'm not 100% on that but I think Baroque and earlier periods were dominated by the Italian composers?

I think Renaissance and early Baroque is dominated by the Italians, but mid-late Baroque probably leans more towards the Germans.

[GSOphile]

My top three:
Beethoven
Handel
Tchaikovsky