Who is Your Favorite Classical Music Composer?

[Vikki Jezebel B]

Which of these peoples is the one who's compositions you would label your favorite?

Feel free to leave a ranked or unranked top # list as well.

 

[Patrick_S]

Beethoven, the "riff" in the allegro of his fifth symphony is the coolest ever.

 

[Neutron66]

Gershwin.

 

[PornKhaos]

im a music producer (as a hobby not professionally), so sometimes i look for classical music to remix, i voted for mozart purely because hes the 1 i have the most of. But i like the newer generation of people who make classical music now and again such as Hans Zimmer and Terry-Devine King. (they make more of a modern and different style of classical music.)

 

[BlueBalls]

I'm a Mozart or a Beethoven man

:hatsoff:

 

[STDiva]

Johann Pachelbel. I don't care what anybody says, Canon In D Major is probably the best piece of music ever written.

 

[pully89]

i think Johann Strauss II just for An der schönen blauen Donau (On The Beautiful Blue Danube aka the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[Spleen]

In college I had to study Bach for a while, I used to like his work but after that I find him annoying. I gotta go with Beethoven.

 

[wrayven]

Varese would be my choice.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

I would go with Bach. However, I am not schooled enough to opine on the others. I have a Bach disc and some Vivaldi stuff. They're both very good. Bach has maybe the most brilliant piece of music ever - 'Air' from Suite No.3 in D major - Johann Sebastian Bach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyLo9-Voy5s

Chilling! :hatsoff:

 

[Jagger69]

Judging by your choices, I assume you are including only certain periods of music when you refer to "classical" music (baroque, classical, romantic and impressionistic). If no one beyond the impressionistic period is considered, it still remains a very tough question. I love DeBussey, Chopin, Medelssohn, Ravel, Grieg and Copeland. Also, Musorgsky is highly underrated. However, in the final analysis, there can be only one choice that stands out head-and-shoulders above the rest....

Ludwig von Beethoven. His 3rd, 5th and 9th symphonies are beyond compare. I never get tired of listening to them. Moonlight Sonata is arguably the greatest piece of music ever written.

Excellent topic! :thumbsup:

 

[BigSwede]

Mozart.
Or Wiener Klassik in general.

 

[holdol]

Tchaikovsky....Beethoven, Stravinsky, Copland, Mozart

Not necessarily in that order all the time.

 

[bustybbwlover]

johann pachelbel for me but i like it all really, i've yet to hear classical music that i didn't like

 

[L3ggy]

They're all great, but my favourite is Ludwig Van Beethoven, I love Für Elise and Moonlight Sonata

 

[biomech]

Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin. :thumbsup:

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Gotta give a shout out to John Williams: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=John+Williams+&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 He has done some of the most famous film soundtracks in history (i.e., Saving Private Ryan; Schindlers List; Star Wars). He has to be one of the modern greats, although, again, I am not schooled in the art.

 

[jakeballs77]

Edward Elgar

 

[Eric Lindros]

W.A. Mozart

"Don Giovanni" and "Entführung aus dem Sarai" are great operas.

 

[mountain]

They are all outstanding composers, very different in character and so hard to compare!!! It depends very much in which mood I am. Here is just an other composer who's music is worth to be listened to it: Katschaturian!!!