What is your favourite composer?

[max-smith]

Mozart the best



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What Does Not Kill You Only Makes You Stronger

[rojo]

Well, I find it hard to pick a favorite composer, I like so many. I find it easier to proclaim my favorite piece (as some of you may have noticed from previous posts I have made.) I guess one could say I have favorite works by many different composers; there is just so much good stuff to listen to.

Hooray for all composers!

[Frederik.Sjölund]

Yes! Hooray for ALL composers!

[Tony Bray]

Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok. Charles Ives. Does any one know of any good recordings of the music of Hugo Wolf?


www.tonybraymusic.com

[Olivier Cayatte]

My favourite composers are :

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Johann Sebastian Bach
W.A. Mozart
Richard Wagner
G.-F. Händel

Olivier
http://farhad.efka.club.fr/rameau/index.htm

[Montefalco]

My favourite composers at the moment are (in no particular order)
JS Bach, Stravinsky, Ravel, Rautavaara, Beethoven, Scelsi

[methodistgirl]

I like the classical composers too like Beethoven and Bach. For the
more modern ones it would have to be from the 60s and 70 people
like Bob Dylan, Carole King, and Neil Diamond. Neil Diamond is a
classic in his own time.
judy tooley

[dll927]

What is your favorite composer? My favorite composer is a person who writes music. And given that they tend to be people, the question should say WHO ----.

[superhorn]

This is rather like asking a mother with 12 children which is her favorite.
I can't choose a "favorite" composer, nor can I choose a favorite work by any particular composer,or a favorite,conductor,violinist,pianist,cellist,horn player, or opera singer etc.
I don't even have a favorite book,movie,television program,food,drink, or color. I like all colors, and have never been able to understand how people can pick a favorite one.
Of course,I like some composers more than others and some works by the same composer more than others.
But here are some composers I particularly love: Wagner,Bruckner,Mahler,Richard Strauss, Dvorak,Smetana,Dvorak,Janacek,
Sibelius,Nielsen, Prokofiev,Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Ives,Bartok, Berlioz,Roussel, Elgar, Copland, and Tippett.
But I enjoy music by many other composers,too.

[teddy]

I agree, a tasking question, but as far as classical music is concerned it must be JS Bach. There is a majesty about his work that exceeds all others for me.

teddy

[nimrod]

Some of my favorites who have not been mentioned include Shostakovich, Bruckner, Polenc, Ravel, and Barber. There are probably about 40 or 50 tied for first place.

[wljmrbill]

Mine would be on two ends of the stick so to speak. J.S. BACH , Handel and Puccini.

[Corno Dolce]

This is always a very tough question for me, as there are many of whom I have favs - But, if I may be permitted to use the term *bookends* for composers then JSBach and Sergei Rachmaninoff are the staples........

[marval]

Chopin. JS Bach, Beethoven, Handel, there are so many. Often a favourite is decided on by the mood one is in. I also like Greig very much especially this, which I find very moody and soothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3N1yBEGbw&feature=fvsr


Margaret

[superhorn]

For recordings of Hugo Wolf songs, the master is the great Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who made so many great recordings of the songs.
He turned 85 this month,and there are some boxed sets of some of his countless recordings being issued by EMI etc.