Your Three Favorite Composers

[kyjo]

I wonder if Kyle will be participating in this thread?

You seriously think I wouldn't? I'm a poll maniac!

[Bogey]

But Chopin isn't Russian!

Got your back, Karl:

Frédéric François Chopin (/ˈʃoʊpæn/; French pronunciation: ​[fʁe.de.ʁik ʃɔ.pɛ̃]; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849; born, and known in Poland as, Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, the surname being pronounced [ˈʂɔpɛn], with alternative, phonetic spelling Szopen) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era. Chopin was born at Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw, then under Russian rule

[Bogey]

For all those throwing Haydn in your top 3 like me,  (or five or so), I wonder if I would have made him one of my three if I did not spend time at this forum.  I mean Gurn's (and others) passion for him has made me take pause and appreciate and enjoy his music at a higher level.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Bill!

[Daverz]

For all those throwing Haydn in your top 3 like me,  (or five or so), I wonder if I would have made him one of my three if I did not spend time at this forum.  I mean Gurn's (and others) passion for him has made me take pause and appreciate and enjoy his music at a higher level.

Haydn was my #1 before the Internet even existed.  So you kids get off my lawn!

[Bogey]

Haydn was my #1 before the Internet even existed.  So you kids get off my lawn!

Post of the year.

[mszczuj]

Frédéric François Chopinthen under Russian rule[/b]

There is no possibility to be less Russian than to be Polish under Russian rule.

[Rinaldo]

Purcell
to represent my love for the old

Busoni
to represent my love for the bold

Langgaard
to represent my love for the f*ck it, i'm an albatross!

[Sergeant Rock]

Third Three:

Vaughan Williams, Havergal Brian, Mozart


Sarge

[Christo]

Three excellent composers, Johan! Their music has meant a lot to me since I first discovered it.

Whew. I know I won't be taken seriously if don't pay due honour to the Big Names. But at the same times: these are composers I really like, though in fact I don't have a Top 3, but rather a Top 30. And that includes "bigger" names like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Bruckner and Mahler. Nevertheless. 

[Sergeant Rock]

But at the same times: these are composers I really like, though in fact I don't have a Top 3, but rather a Top 30.

As I've said once or twice before, a Top 300 would more accurately define my taste in music.

Sarge

[Christo]

As I've said once or twice before, a Top 300 would more accurately define my taste in music.

Sarge

Why not go ahead and see how far the moderators let you go? 

[Sergeant Rock]

Why not go ahead and see how far the moderators let you go? 

I don't want to push it so I'll just keep it to a Top 99, i.e., thirty-three sets of threes 

Sarge

[Bogey]

Third Three:

Vaughan Williams, Havergal Brian, Mozart


Sarge

'Morning, Szellster.  Just curious when Wolfie broke your top 10.  Or has he always been there?

[Sergeant Rock]

'Morning, Szellster.  Just curious when Wolfie broke your top 10.  Or has he always been there?

Despite growing up near, and often hearing live, one of the greatest Mozart/Haydn bands in the world (Szell and the Cleveland), I came to love the repertoire quite late. I didn't get the music until after I'd read The Classical Style in the late 70s; didn't start seriously collecting recordings of the music until the early 80s. At that time Mozart dominated Haydn. In other words, I was 30 before I fell in love with Mozart. When did Mozart creep into the Top 10? I'm not sure I can answer that. I don't think I ever thought about that kind of list before I joined internet forums. My trinity was revealed by the time I was 22 but I never thought beyond the Top 3. At least I can't recall doing it.

Certainly by 1999 Mozart was Top 10. Haydn came later, eventually pushing Mozart into a lower ring. Haydn is the one composer I knew superficially 40 years ago, and thought little of, who I now consider one of the giants. That appreciation has grown over the last five years.

Sarge

[kyjo]

Third Three:

Vaughan Williams, Havergal Brian, Mozart


Sarge

My third three: VW, Ravel, Prokofiev

....and while I'm at it I might as well announce my tenth place: a tie between Debussy and Grieg.

[vandermolen]

Miaskovsky

Vaughan Williams

Sibelius

[madaboutmahler]

First one is easy, of course it's Mahler  0:)

I would used to easily follow that up with Elgar and R.Strauss, but I find it a bit more difficult to do that now.

Tempted to say Ravel, Chopin... and give it a few more weeks, and Schnittke could be there!

But I have to stick to Elgar at least, such a special composer for me, with the symphonies + Gerontius etc. I listen to a lot less Strauss nowadays and even though I love his music a lot, and so many pieces of his are among my favourites, I think I might have to replace his spot with Ravel.

So: Mahler, Elgar, Ravel.

Second list: Chopin, Dvorak, Strauss. (with Schnittke sneaking in )

[kyjo]

I listen to a lot less Strauss nowadays and even though I love his music a lot, and so many pieces of his are among my favourites, I think I might have to replace his spot with Ravel.

So: Mahler, Elgar, Ravel.

You've made wise decision, my friend! Ravel's music is head-and-shoulders above Strauss' IMO.

[Lisztianwagner]

Wagner, Beethoven and Liszt for me.

Since many have also added a second list:

Mahler, Rachmaninov, Johann Strauss.