Classical Music Composers

actinglove299 · Post by **actinglove299** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:03 am

Who is your favorite composer?

Mozart!! Beethoven is really good to.

Arla · Post by **Arla** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:31 am

I love Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire. Vivaldi, Brahams, Mozart, Beethoven, and Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring.

Thursday Next · Post by **Thursday Next** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:04 pm

my favorite composers are Mozart, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky (Sp?), Bach, and Benjamen Britten.

bravoleader · Post by **bravoleader** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:51 pm

My favorite composer is Johann Sebastian Bach

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:56 pm

John Williams, Howard Shore, Harry Gregson-Williams.

I love Handel's "Messiah".

David O · Post by **David O** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:13 pm

At the moment I'm really appreciating Debussy's preludes. I've been studying book 1 no5 "The Hills of Anacapri" this term and really love how much he makes the piano sound like a full orchestra.

Overall though, I think Rachmaninoff may be my favorite. His ingenious melodies layered atop his thick, rich chords have placed his works among my favorites for years. One of my favorite pieces ever is Op3 no1, his Elegie in E-flat minor... It's hauntingly beautiful. *Listens to the 5 Browns rendition of the song*

Laura Ingalls · Post by **Laura Ingalls** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:58 pm

I don't really have a FAVORITE, although I do enjoy Bach. I mostly like individual pieces of music...but I'm never sure who composed them.

Aram · Post by **Aram** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:05 pm

Harry Gregson-Williams.
Beethoven.. although, I admit, I'm not a big classical fan..

Arla · Post by **Arla** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:20 am

Lord_Kappa wrote:John Williams, Howard Shore, Harry Gregson-Williams.

I love Handel's "Messiah".

Totally! Lord_Kappa! Their Awsome!

Dr. Watson · Post by **Dr. Watson** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:04 am

I absolutely adore the Baroque period. Telemann, Vivaldi, Bach, Couperin, Scarlatti, Handel, Byrd, Purcell, Corelli...any of them float my boat.

snowflake · Post by **snowflake** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:19 am

hmm. I mostly go by what songs I enjoy PLAYING more than hearing...though, if I enjoy playing them, I enjoy listening to them...

anyway, I'll get to the point now. I love, love, love Vivaldi and since I just finished learning La Folia I like Corelli, too. I love the Four Seasons and Vivaldi wrote some of my favorite violin concertos. I haven't played any in a while, sadly. Also....wait....Beethoven wrote Moonlight Sonata, correct? we got a CD of Beethoven piano sonatas because my sister was learning one for a recital...yes, I definately love those.

Lulu the Paw · Post by **Lulu the Paw** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:40 pm

Lord_Kappa wrote:John Williams, Howard Shore, Harry Gregson-Williams.

I love Handel's "Messiah".

Movie score composers! $\:D/$ Lord_Kappa, you are a man after my own heart! Hmm...I think I might start a favorite soundtrack thread.

Chopin, Brahms, and Gershwin. I like the Romantic style better than straight Classical. Baroque, with some exceptions, is at the bottom of the pile. It's too unemotional for me.

Ruthie · Post by **Ruthie** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:31 pm

Again, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Williams, and Howard Shore.

I do also enjoy Tchaikovsky, Gershwin (though, I wouldn't exactly call him classical), Gustav Holst (the planets!), Mancini (again, not exactly 'classical'..), Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt....

Aram · Post by **Aram** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:28 pm

Lulu the Paw wrote:
Lord_Kappa wrote:John Williams, Howard Shore, Harry Gregson-Williams.

I love Handel's "Messiah".
Movie score composers! $\:D/$ Lord_Kappa, you are a man after my own heart! Hmm...I think I might start a favorite soundtrack thread.

Chopin, Brahms, and Gershwin. I like the Romantic style better than straight Classical. Baroque, with some exceptions, is at the bottom of the pile. It's too unemotional for me.

Such as Narnia and etc? Yes, go start a soundtrack thread

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:51 pm

Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia; the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, respectively. ^

I found a very little known classical composer by the name of John Fields. He wrote some of the first and (in my opinion) finest nocturns.

Movieman · Post by **Movieman** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:56 pm

Beethoven all the way

$\:D/$ !

Rio · Post by **Rio** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:41 pm

Vivaldi and Bach, beautiful. *tears up* Burgmuller is also my favorite composers music to play on the piano.

RR

darcie · Post by **darcie** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:10 am

Little Einsteins (on Disney Channel) uses all (what we generically call) classical music. I since have a newfound appreciation for Dvořák and Grieg. I've also always liked Vivaldi and Saint-Saëns.

Sherlock · Post by **Sherlock** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:11 am

Oh, don't get me started.

My "favourite" composers are always changing. I don't really prefer one over the other, but my tastes in music are constantly changing, so I'll tend to listen to one over another at certain points in time. I'm a bit of a late-romantic myself, and tend to shy away from baroque.

I'd say the composers that I listen to most frequently include Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Liszt, Chopin, Verdi, Vivaldi and Mozart.

To get obnoxiously detailed, I prefer Vladimir Horowitz, Arcadi Volodos and George Gershwin as pianists.

Finally, in the modern category, I have to applaud composers such as Philip Glass, Howard Shore, John Williams and Danny Elfman (though his music can sometimes become a bit repetitive). Nevertheless, though talented, I must note that this genre of music should probably be kept in a distinct category from what we traditionally recognize as "classical."

to His glory · Post by **to His glory** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:40 pm

I love classical music

OK my favorite composers are, Bach(because I sang in his house), Mozart (because he started out so young), Beethoven (because he was deaf and still wrote music), Britain (because he wrote some of the best, but hardest music I have ever sung in my life), Burgmuller ( because his music is just great), Copland (because he was different), and Mendelson (because I sang in his house).