Who are your top 5 composers, in order?

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by HaydnFan, in another thread:
Who are your top 5 composers, in order?

Mine:

1) Mozart
2) Beethoven
3) Bach
4) Haydn
5) Schubert

HaydnFan

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by Chaszz:
Originally posted by HaydnFan, in another thread:
Who are your top 5 composers, in order?

Mine:

1) Mozart
2) Beethoven
3) Bach
4) Haydn
5) Schubert

HaydnFan

Mine:

Favorite:

Bach
Wagner
Brahms
Beethoven
Richard Strauss

Greatest:

Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Wagner
Brahms - Handel tie


- Chaszz



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[Joy]

Oh, boy, here we go again, Chaszz, good question. Here's mine:

1) Beethoven
2) Beethoven
3) Beethoven
4) Beethoven
5) Beethoven

Did I mention Beethoven? Ha! Only kidding, Seriously:

1) Beethoven
2) Bach
3) Mozart
4) Chopin
5) Liszt

May I ask, Chaszz, how come your favourites are different than 'the greatest'?

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[Rutradelusasa]

1) Beethoven - Schubert
2) Bach - Bruckner
3) Mendelssohn - Haydn - Mozart - Brahms - Händel - Ries (yes, Ries)
4) Schumann - Wagner - Berlioz
5) Hummel - Cherubini - Méhul

Sorry, can't make a top 5 with 5 composers ...

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[Nightklavier]

1. Beethoven
2. Liszt
3. Chopin
4. Alkan
5. Brahms

I guess you can tell I'm more of a piano guy here. And I prefer my Brahms played in four-hand arrangements =)

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by Joy:
Oh, boy, here we go again, Chaszz, good question. Here's mine:

1) Beethoven
2) Beethoven
3) Beethoven
4) Beethoven
5) Beethoven

Did I mention Beethoven? Ha! Only kidding, Seriously:

1) Beethoven
2) Bach
3) Mozart
4) Chopin
5) Liszt

May I ask, Chaszz, how come your favourites are different than 'the greatest'?

Sure. For instance, I know that Brahms is less great than Beethoven but like listening to him more. I make a distinction between who I love most and who is greatest. I know that Mozart belongs in the top three but spend very little time listening to him, and frankly often find him saccharine. But I know from the number of distinguished critics, performers and musicologists who rate him as one of the highest, that it is just a random lack in my genetic makeup that I don't appreciate him. In this way I differentiate myself from someone like Rod, who holds his own preferences above all the rest of the world's experts and listeners.

I often paint while listening to Brahms, and have even titled one of my recent sculptures, of a group of trees, after his piano quintet.

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[Nightklavier]

Originally posted by Chaszz:
[B]... In this way I differentiate myself from someone like Rod, who holds his own preferences above all the rest of the world's experts and listeners.[B]

Speaking of Rod, where is our Handel Champion Extraordinaire? I haven't seen him post in a long time.

[Sorrano]

Top five?? Good heavens, how does one choose? I like Joy's first listing, ha ha!

Beethoven is at the front of my list, but from there I can't really put any in any order--it just depends on whom I'm listening to and the mood I'm in. But among the ones I prefer most to listen to after Beethoven here are some (but are not listed in any particular order):

Grieg
Tchaikowsky
Dvorak
Bruckner
Berlioz
Mussorgsky
Haydn
Bartok
Penderecki

Give me more time and I'll probably add some more. But that'll give you an idea.

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by Nightklavier:
1. Beethoven
2. Liszt
3. Chopin
4. Alkan
5. Brahms

I guess you can tell I'm more of a piano guy here. And I prefer my Brahms played in four-hand arrangements =)

I have to admit I've never even heard of Alkan!

[Zevy]

Mozart
Bach
Beethoven
Schubert
Lennon & McCartney

[Peter]

Originally posted by Chaszz:
I have to admit I've never even heard of Alkan!

He was a great 19th century virtuoso who wrote extremely difficult piano music. The late Ronald Smith (a friend of my teacher's) was a great exponent of his music and wrote a biography on him.

For my A list my top in no particular order except for the first are Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Haydn and Schubert. Of these there isn't much I don't like.

For the B list, I'm more selective from these composers - Palestrina, Wagner (especially Siegfied idyll and Tristan), Liszt (in small doses), Brahms (in larger doses), Berlioz, Chopin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky (my first depressive), Mahler (my second depressive), R.Strauss (the last 4 songs and Don Juan particularly), Rachmaninov (some preludes and mainly the Paganini variations), Dvorak (especially the 'cello concerto and 8th symphony), Sibelius (3rd and 6th symphonies especially) - as an antidote to this Romantic overdose, Stravinsky (the ballets), Bartok (piano concertos), Schoenberg (just getting into some of this), Shostakovich (my 3rd depressive), Prokofiev (cheers me up after Shostakovich!).

For the C list I'd probably need a book but it would start with Puccini, Verdi, Rossini and Bizet!

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[Ludwig]

1 Ludvig
2 van
3 Beethoven
4 Beethoven
5 BEETHOVEN!!!

ahd...huh

1Beethoven
2Mahler
3Arvo Part
4Bruckner
5Bach

[Johan]

1. Ludwig van Beethoven
6. Georg Friedrich Händel
7. Hector Berlioz
8. Johann Sebastian Bach
9. Anton Bruckner

One certain name may amaze you not belonging to my list (as I come from Finland). I just don't - well, how should I define - respond, perhaps it is, to his music.
What comes to Bach and Bruckner I could place them in the other order.

[HaydnFan]

Bruckner surprises me on some peoples' lists. And Chaszz, you are right...most of them are German, I don't see that many Italians!

[Teresa]

Originally posted by Chaszz:
Originally posted by HaydnFan, in another thread:
Who are your top 5 composers, in order?

Mine:

1) Mozart
2) Beethoven
3) Bach
4) Haydn
5) Schubert

HaydnFan

1. Beethoven
2. Chopin
3. Schubert
4. Mozart
5. Handel