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Composers represented by the composers that influenced them the most

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#1 · (Edited)
I thought this might be an interesting game for us to play. The idea is that we choose a composer and represent them by the composers that we feel influenced their style the most.

I'll start:

Mozart:
- J.C. Bach
- Michael Haydn
- C.P.E. Bach
- Johann Schobert
- Leopold Mozart
- G.F. Handel
- Joseph Haydn
- J.S. Bach
- Gluck
 
#7 · (Edited)
Great idea for a thread. I love these connections. Here is a trio of Australian composers -

Peter Sculthorpe (born 1929)
- Varese
- Messiaen
- Cage
- Asian/Australasian music in general

Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
- Brahms
- R. Strauss
- Early Stravinsky
- Ravel
- Music of the Caribbean area, eg. Jamaica

Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990)
- Virgil Thomson
- Vaughan Williams
- Erik Satie
- World music, esp. Indian, Chinese & Ancient Greek musics
 
#9 ·
Really loving the replies so far, I'm glad people like the idea :). I was hoping for more obscure composers too though, along with the big names. For instance, I personally think it's incredible how much of Mozart's basic style you hear in the music of J.C. Bach (Or rather how much J.C. Bach in Mozart), and I'm really interested in finding similar cases of this.
 
#11 ·
Schubert

Beethoven
Mozart
Saliere
Michael Haydn
Rossini

:)
 
#12 ·
A trio of French composers.

Debussy
- Wagner (early on)
- Cesar Franck, Emmanuel Chabrier, Jules Massenet
- Liszt
- Erik Satie
- Palestrina
- Asian music, pentatonic scale, esp. Javanese gamelan

Saint-Saens was a kind of polyglot or hybrid of many influences (no surprises as to the names below, since he was a brilliant pianist), eg.:
- Liszt
- J.S. Bach
- Chopin
- Beethoven
- Mozart
- Wagner

Messiaen
- Wagner
- Debussy, Ravel
- His teachers, esp. Dukas and Dupre
- Second Viennese School, esp. Webern
- J.S. Bach
- & birdsong (the avian, not human, varieties of birds!)
 
#13 ·
I thought this might be an interesting game for us to play. The idea is that we choose a composer and represent them by the composers that we feel influenced their style the most.

I'll start:

Mozart:
- J.C. Bach
- Michael Haydn
- C.P.E. Bach
- Johann Schobert
- Leopold Mozart
- G.F. Handel
- Joseph Haydn
- J.S. Bach
Don't forget Gluck. I believe he was an important influence on Mozart's operatic style.:)
 
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