Your Top 5 favourite composers

[Hollywood]

... And then to something like Scott Joplin.

I love Scott Joplin. I also love John Philip Sousa and Glenn Miller. So you can see that I am not just a classical and baroque music lover.

[gprengel]

1. Beethoven
2. Bach (because of his piano music)
3. Mozart
4. Schubert
5. Mendelssohn


Today:
1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Mark Knopfler

[Megan]

From the pop era I liked, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, and Simple Minds.

[Harvey]

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Johnny Winter for non-classical.

[AeolianHarp]

I'm not into pop music these days; the only band I like a lot who might be included in that ( but are actually described as post rock)being difficult to define, and include classical elements into their music are Sigur Ros from Iceland.

[Chris]

If we're doing pop:

1. Billy Joel
2. Queen
3. The Beatles
4. Elton John
5. Styx

Kenny Loggins, Fleetwood Mac, and Simon and Garfunkel would be up there too.

[AeolianHarp]

Well the thread was meant to be about classical composers not pop musicians but it digressed....

[Harvey]

Yes and I didn't help. Maybe we should have a non-classical favorites thread in the General Forum?

[AeolianHarp]

Yes and I didn't help. Maybe we should have a non-classical favorites thread in the General Forum?

Hey you could start that thread Harvey...

[Harvey]

Hey you could start that thread Harvey...

Done. See it in the General Forum.

Meanwhile, I can hardly wait for my CDs to arrive for the live Scandinavian performances of Handel's Israel in Egypt and Messiah.

[Albert Gans]

No 1 is not available, it always has been and will be Beethoven.
No. 2 in my list is Mahler, I am surprised he's nowhere in the lists before.
Then it becomes a bit fuzzy, but one I always favour is Prokofiev.
JS Bach cannot be anywhere else but in a list like this.
And just for a treat: why not mention Sibelius?

[Sorrano]

No 1 is not available, it always has been and will be Beethoven.
No. 2 in my list is Mahler, I am surprised he's nowhere in the lists before.
Then it becomes a bit fuzzy, but one I always favour is Prokofiev.
JS Bach cannot be anywhere else but in a list like this.
And just for a treat: why not mention Sibelius?

Yes, I would have to add Sibelius to my list. It's a good thing I cannot count, as then I would have too many on the list.

[AeolianHarp]

No 1 is not available, it always has been and will be Beethoven.

There is only one Beethoven!

No. 2 in my list is Mahler, I am surprised he's nowhere in the lists before.Then it becomes a bit fuzzy, but one I always favour is Prokofiev.
JS Bach cannot be anywhere else but in a list like this.
And just for a treat: why not mention Sibelius?

Don't like Mahler, quite like Prokofiev- the Romeo and Juliet music is good- seen that played live a few months ago. Sibelius- don't mind him either- saw some of his live a couple of weeks ago. Bach- not really into him that much.
My number two remains a tie with Chopin and Rachmaninoff!

Now let's extend it to a top ten!

Mine:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Frederic Chopin/Sergei Rachmaninoff - joint second
Clara and Robert Schumann
Franz Schubert
John Field
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Claude Debussy
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Joseph Haydn
Johannes Brahms

[Harvey]

There is only one Beethoven!

AMEN!

[gprengel]

Now let's extend it to a top ten!

Here is my Top Ten:

1. Beethoven
2. Bach (because of his piano music)
3. Mozart
4. Schubert
5. Mendelssohn
6. Haendel
7. Tschaikowsky
8. Brahms (because of his orchestral music, not so much his chamber music )
9. Haydn
10. G. Verdi