Your favorite classical composer

[brentspeak]

I'll the word "classical" here just for convenience' sake.

There's not enough poll choices to list all the tons of great composers, so use the "other" option to vote for your's.

Bach:



Mozart:



Ludwig van:



Schubert:



Chopin (use 'other'):



Wagner:



Stravinsky:



Stockhausen (use 'other'):

[FuzzySlippers]

1. Easy for me -- Bach.

If I could listen to/play the music of only one composer, Bach is almost enough to keep me contented for a lifetime.

[MedleyMisty]

2. Beethoven, of course

Is there anything better than the Ode to Joy?

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. I agree

Beethoven

[nickinSTL]

40. Beethoven...my favorite is the 5th piano concerto...

but I love a lot of Beethoven's work.

[wildhorses]

3. rachmaninoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff

[BlueJazz]

5. He's my Favorite.

[wildhorses]

6. i love the older d00ds , but rach rawks

his stuff is awesome

[MissMillie]

24. yep

followed by Bruckner

[Catfight]

32. Mine too. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Other: Claudio Monteverdi.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Yes, Monteverdi!

I'm convinced that the angels sing his music. O8)

In other choral music, I like Bach, Schütz, Gabrieli, Tallis, Tomas Luis de Victoria, and a lot of the Brits: Howells, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Bairstow, and Britten, although not Rutter. Definitely not Rutter, except for "What Sweeter Music."

In instrumental music, I like just about everybody.

My favorite opera is Boris Godunov.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. Rutter kinda sucks. His stuff is mostly overblown and a bit trite.

I used to have a wonderful recording (LPs!) of Boris Godunov starring Martti Talvela. I'll have to see if it's available on CDs.

On my iPod is Monteverdi (Orfeo, Il Ritorno d'Ulissse, the Vespers), Penderecki, lots of Praetorius and Schütz, Vaughan Williams (Five Mystical Songs and the Mass in G minor), Schein, Gabrieli, stuff from the Eton Choirbook, the Bach B minor Mass, Byrd, Dufay, Carissimi, Cavalli, Guerrero, Charpentier, Machaut, Gesualdo and such (with a bit of Elvis, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and the Stones).

Nobody but a choir freak will ever steal my iPod.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. I saw Martti Talvela sing Boris at the Met back in the 1970s

He was definitely THE CZAR.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. Excellent!

I just now found that old (1976) recording, remade on CD, on Amazon.com and ordered it. It's the best -- it's not the Rimsky-Korsakov transcription; it's Mussorgsky's original version. That must have been a spectacular performance.

[Richardo]

8. The Baroque Boys: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear brentspeak....

Ah, the glorious Beethoven!

But I love so many, it's really difficult to choose...

Right up there for me is Mendelsohn....and I know I didn't spell that right!

The only one you have up there is Stockhausen...I don't know him at all...

But the rest I love sooooooo much!

:bounce: :bounce:

[stuntcat]

10. Mozart for me

I celebrated his birthday last year and stuff :blush: yeah I'm Disco like that
I like Tchaikovsky a lot lately too.
I listen to everyone though, my classical station RocKs :headbang:

[brentspeak]

11. kick

:kick:

[Hugin]

12. And the lead goes to Wolfie...

:)

[youthere]

14. Not quite...Bach by a nose.

[EFerrari]

13. Life without the Brandenburgs isn't worth living.

:)

[Reverend_Smitty]

15. Bach is probably my favorite...

however the Romantics, especially Chopin are in a close second

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

16. Tied between Mozart and Bach but I also love Gershwin

To me (a foreigner), nothing sounds much more 'American' than Rhapsody in Blue or Porgy and Bess. Truly an amazing genius whose life was way too short.

[Burma Jones]

17. That painting of Chopin makes him look like Donald Trump

My vote, a tossup between Bach and Beethoven........

[Mendocino]

18. Edvard Grieg

[Aristus]

19. I know it's pretty predictable to vote for Mozart. But I did.

To all those who chose Shostakovich or Boccherini to show your esoteric and independent tastes, all I can say is: "Mozart Rocks!"


Or "Mozart Classicals!"

Or whatever.

:headbang:

[flamingyouth]

20. Bach.

:)

[edbermac]

21. Mozart. Also Philip Glass and Gyorgy Ligeti.

:headbang:

[Mike Daniels]

22. Vaughan Williams, Holst and Orff

[no_hypocrisy]

28. I fell in love with them performing their pieces in concert band.

[ceile]

23. Tchaikovsky or Grieg

[Mrs. Venation]

25. Hector Berlioz

His "Messe Solennelle" is my absolute favorite musical work.

[UTUSN]

33. Yip, & BIZET, TCHAIKOVSKY, ROSSINI n/t

[Beausoleil]

26. It's a tough choice

between Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, but I vote for Ludwig.

Bach was probably the best technical composer. Mozart just didn't live long enough to transcribe all that flowed out of his creativity. But no one at the time had the ability to convey the power and beauty that Beethoven's music exemplified.

[Mad_Dem_X]

27. Wolfgang Amadeus, baby!

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[QMPMom]

29. Interesting what people call classical. n/t

[brentspeak]

43. Hence, the disclaimer in my first sentence

I accidentally left out the word "use" in the sentence, but I think the meaning is pretty clear.

[Alexander]

31. Mussorgsky.

[Xipe Totec]

39. Pictures at an Exhibition

Love it!

[Dukkha]

35. Eric Satie, Phillip Glass, Wendy Carlos, Howard Shore

for the modern ones.

for the classical period Mozart, Vivaldi, & Tchaikovsky.

[charlie and algernon]

37. Beethoven

9th symphony is simply the greatest piece of music ever written.

[Xipe Totec]

41. I love them all, but I got to go with Mozart

Confutatis Maledictus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zF-lHnTEcA

[pink-o]

42. I gotta go with Baroque Boys as well..

...Mozart, Vivaldi, Scarlotti, et al. However, I love "Scheherazade" (sp) by Rimsky-Korsokov.

Travelling in Venice and Salzburg, it's really cool to buy cheap tix to a Vivaldi/Mozart performance done by quartets and small orchestras in old churches. I attended "Four Seasons" in Venice a few years ago, and it was AWESOME! Also "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" in Austria. In Vienna, the orchestras all play Strauss, but that's a little to treacly for me.

[brentspeak]

44. No love for Stockhausen?

Not like I blame anyone; his stuff isn't for everybody, to the say the least.