Mine, in no particular order are...Mozart, Schubert, Bach, and Chopin.
2007-08-13 04:24:36 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Mozart because his pieces are brilliant. Beethoven because I love the contrast in the expression. Chopin because I'm a sucker for romantic pieces with emotion. And I guess Bach because his pieces are so classic.
But then I also love Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and Grieg. It's so hard to choose.
2007-08-13 09:41:29 · answer #1 · answered by musicrazy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Bethhoven, Chopin, Bach, Mozart.
2007-08-15 06:34:10 · answer #2 · answered by Lara Grace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Rachmaninoff. His music is powerful and brilliant.
2. Mozart. He changed classical music for the better, and wrote nice horn concertos
3. Bach. He practically invented classical music.
4. Mahler. He made the symphony powerful, and is simply the best at orchestration.
:) I like Schubert and Chopin too!
2007-08-15 20:05:25 · answer #3 · answered by rachy1337 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is free to ask what he/she likes best. That said, I would find it much more intriguing posing a question like: given that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven are the three top musicians, for a number of reasons that I myself (that is, nada de nada in this world) have quoted in a dozen of answers, who is the 4th ? In these terms it does make sense to cast Schubert, it doesn't at all to name Orff, with all respect for those who do so.
My answer is simple but not ultimate: if the first three had not existed, today we would consider Haendel for Bach, Haydn for Mozart and Brahms for Beethoven as the the best three.
Pick one of them.
2007-08-13 05:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by the italian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can appreciate Mozart for the genius he was, but his stuff seems too churned out and commercial for me, really. (I think he might agree with this.) And I'm rather scornful of any tune that can be made into a ringtone for a cell phone, to be honest.
Number 1: Schubert. Favorite Schubert piece: Piano Impromptu Opus 90, No. 3 (which I'm learning now and LOVE)
Number 2: Rachmaninoff
Number 3: Chopin
Number 4: Beethoven
I'm a pianist, so of course the piano composers are the freshest ones off my brain, but I do love Ravel too.
2007-08-13 09:37:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Mozart, Back, Chopin, Beethoven
2007-08-13 08:16:48 · answer #6 · answered by Legandivori 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'll try to be controversial by deliberately leaving out the primarily operatic composers on the grounds that opera is actually a multimedia art form:
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
...Chopin.
Somehow it ends up being the same anyway, with #4 always being the tossup. I certainly wouldn't argue against Brahms or Schubert. Of course that doesn't mean that I wouldn't prefer to listen to Webern whenever blessed with the opportunity. Or Varese. Heck, if you aren't asking for just one, why not ask for 10?
2007-08-13 16:55:34 · answer #7 · answered by Less is Less 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1) J'S Bach
2) this space left blank intentionally to indicate the gap between Bach and everyone else
3) Igor Stravinsky (and for the same reason as Bach.. its all about counterpoint)
4) Beethoven. His music is a miraculous combination of innovation and absolute control.
2007-08-13 05:49:19 · answer #8 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johan Sebastian Bach
Richard Wagner
2007-08-13 07:41:21 · answer #9 · answered by patrioticamerican1776 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mozart, Bach, Beethoven very close for first on my list. The next one is tough. Mendelssohn, Chopin, Grieg, Tchaikovsky ... I can't choose.
2007-08-14 05:02:03 · answer #10 · answered by Zorro: de fox 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋