Your Top 5 favourite composers

[Fredrika]

Glad I came in here now when the list has been stretched into ten, there is no way I would have been able to pick only five

In somewhat historical order, because the best on is always depending on the day/year/mood and whether I'm listening to the music or practicing it :

Tomas Luis de Victoria
Claudio Monteverdi
Orlando di Lasso
Händel
J.S. Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Chopin
Sibelius
Arvo Pärt

oops that's 11!

edit: Oh my goodness I forgot BRAHMS!! ...I'm terrible in this :P

[AeolianHarp]

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

That's a great list Gerd- the top should always be Beethoven hehe...
I have a lovely concert of Brahms to go to in the summer! Nice to see Haydn there too!