Your favorite classical music composer?

Question

Preferably besides the obvious Mozart and Beethoven

Chopin? Vivaldi? Bach? Brahms? Wagner? Strauss? Gershwin? Mendlessohn? Satie? Debussy? Rossini? Verdi? Ravel? Liszt? Bernstein? Salleri? Rimsky Korsokov? Tchikovski? Rachmaninov? other?

yes, i am sure the spelling is wrong on some

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Answer 1

bach, the immortal god of harmony.

i usually like the russian composers too. and vivaldi, he is a fave too!

Answer 2

Bach, Handel, CPE Bach, Telemann, Martinu, Martin (Frank), Satie, Stravinsky, Faure, Buxtehude, Puccini, Beethoven, Brahms, Adams, Chopin, Still, Prokofiev, Ireland, Elgar, Grieg, Tansman, Suk, Dvorak, Schmidt, Shostakovitch, Ponce, Grainger, etc. but mostly Bach!

Answer 3

Depends on what genre... Probably Vivaldi if baroque b/c of all of the 16th runs.... ummm Bethoveen's Symphonies are pretty powerful... esp the 9th. "Big Organ Music"... have to go with Bach. Chopin piano...Sibelius has some good stuff to but you have to be in the mood for Sabalius NPR had a little thing on him on Performance Today where they played his stuff all week 50/50. I like fast baroque with lots of runs. Very cut and defined runs...not a lot of sleepy stuff. Still have to go with Vivaldi. Some say that all of his stuff sounds the same..I don't think so.

Answer 4

Beethoven, Sibelius, Ravel, Barber, Menotti

Answer 5

Rachmaninov for me! Ever since I was 8 years old, the 18th variation on a theme by paganini has been my favourite classical piece....although on the other hand I'm kind of liking Mendlessohn more lately as I'm learning some piano pieces by him that I have completley fallen in love with!

Answer 6

Rimsky Korsokov

Answer 7

Sebastian Bach and Tchaikovsky's, ah i love the music in the background as the dancing ballerinas line up, with Tchaikovsky's work of course.

Well I use Bach's work for yoga and massages.lol.

Answer 8

Classical music covers such a large field I'd have to ask you from which part? Which Era?
How can you compare Vivaldi with Bernstein practically in the same sentence?
That's like asking who my favorite classical painter is;
how can you compare Rembrandt with Andy Warhol?

Answer 9

It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, possible to answer your question. That's like asking me, which of my children do I love best. ( You forgot Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, de falla; Granados; Sibelius;Delius; Dvorak; Smetana; Giordano;
Samuel Barber' Copeland;Ralf Vaughan Williams; Franck;
Benjamin Britten; Sir Arnold Bax; Corelli; Menotti; Arensky
Palestrina: Villa Lobos; Glazanov; Prokofiev;Stravinsky;
Vivaldi; Massenet; Berio; Respighi;Leoncavallo;Mascagni;
Pizetti; Schumann;Scarlatti; Shostakovitch; Mussorgsky;
Monteverdi; Borodin'; Khachaturian ;Delibes;Gliere;Korngold;
etc etc. I am now going back to bed with a big headache.

Answer 10

Haha! As I scanned your list above, I was gonna say that you forgot to put Beethoven. Well seeing that I can't say Beethoven as my answer, I really think that Chopin, Rachmaninov, and Bartok are awesome!

Answer 11

Frederic Chopin by far for me. A little bit about him:

All of Chopin's extant work includes the piano in some role (predominantly as a solo instrument), and his compositions are widely considered to be among the pinnacles of the piano's repertoire. Although his music is among the most technically demanding for the instrument, Chopin's style emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather than mere technical display. He invented some musical forms, such as the ballade, but his most significant innovations were within existing structures such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, étude, and prelude. His works are often cited as being among the mainstays of Romanticism in 19th-century classical music. Additionally, Chopin was the first western classical composer to imbue Slavic elements into his music; to this day his mazurkas and polonaises are the cornerstone of Polish nationalistic classical music.

Chopin's music for the piano combined a unique rhythmic sense (particularly his use of rubato), frequent use of chromaticism, and counterpoint. This mixture produces a particularly fragile sound in the melody and the harmony, which are nonetheless underpinned by solid and interesting harmonic techniques. He took the new salon genre of the nocturne, invented by Irish composer John Field, to a deeper level of sophistication. Three of his twenty-one nocturnes were only published after his death in 1849, contrary to his wishes. He also endowed popular dance forms, such as the Polish mazurka and the Viennese waltz, with a greater range of melody and expression. Chopin was the first to write ballades and scherzi as individual pieces. Chopin also took the example of Bach's preludes and fugues, transforming the genre in his own preludes.

Chopin's style and gifts became increasingly influential. Robert Schumann was a huge admirer of Chopin's music — although the feeling was not reciprocated — and he took melodies from Chopin and even named a piece from his suite Carnaval after Chopin.

Chopin's technical innovations also became influential. His Préludes (Op. 28) and Études (Opp. 10 and 25) rapidly became standard works, and inspired both Liszt's Transcendental Études and Schumann's Symphonic Études. Alexander Scriabin was also strongly influenced by Chopin; for example, his 24 Preludes, Op. 11 are inspired by Chopin's Op. 28.

"His playing was always noble and beautiful; his tones sang, whether in full forte or softest piano. He took infinite pains to teach his pupils this legato, cantabile style of playing. His most severe criticism was 'He—or she—does not know how to join two notes together.' He also demanded the strictest adherence to rhythm. He hated all lingering and dragging, misplaced rubatos, as well as exaggerated ritardandos ... and it is precisely in this respect that people make such terrible errors in playing his works."

I find that all of his pieces are unique and excellent, there own specific air and sound that makes them brilliant. Although i do enjoy many classical composers, Chopin has always been my favorite (my grandfather a heavy influence on me about him). My second favorite is Bach, my third Mozart. Long live classical music.