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.

[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...

[GSOphile]

My top three:
Beethoven
Handel
Tchaikovsky

[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.

[Antonmb]

This is like picking your favorite child. I can definitively say that, if I were banished to a desert island with a music player and could only have two composers, it would be Beethoven and Bach. Beyond that, I don’t think I can rank in any order, but certainly Mozart, Chopin, Haydn, Handel, Schubert, Copeland, Corelli, Sibelius, Dvorak, Debussy, R. Strauss, Ravel, Field, Smetana, Mahler, JC Bach, and John Adams, would be in the upper ranks.

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

This is like picking your favorite child. I can definitively say that, if I were banished to a desert island with a music player and could only have two composers, it would be Beethoven and Bach. Beyond that, I don’t think I can rank in any order, but certainly Mozart, Chopin, Haydn, Handel, Schubert, Copeland, Corelli, Sibelius, Dvorak, Debussy, R. Strauss, Ravel, Field, Smetana, Mahler, JC Bach, and John Adams, would be in the upper ranks.

Tony, great list of composers for the deserted island. Here is the tough question, which MUSIC PLAYER?

[crwilli]

Lennon & McCartney
Carole King
...

Oh, probably not what the OP had in mind.