Thread: Update TCers on your personal top composers!

Have your personal favorites changed at all? Anyone new you'd like to mention or talk about?

Right now, the big composers who's music I feel most strongly about are the following:

Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach
George Phillip Telemann
Orlando Gibbons
William Byrd
Franz Joseph Haydn
Nikolai Medtner
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Alexander Scriabin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Muzio Clementi
Henry Purcell

Some composers who may make this list in this future:
Federico Mompou
Antonio de Cabezon
John Bull
Deitrich Buxtehude
Robert Schumann
Frederic Chopin
Anatoly Liadov
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Girolamo Frescobaldi

Additionally, some "minor" composers who really intrigue me:
Willhelm Friedmann Bach
Emmanuel Chabrier
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Henri Joseph Rigel
Alexander Tcherepnin
Sergei Lyapunov
Gottlieb Muffat
Leopold Kozeluch
John Field
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
William Boyce
Johann Stamitz
Christoph Graupner

Mozart
Beethoven
Glass
Bach
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Handel
Schubert
Schumann
Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky
Berlioz
Prokofiev
Lully
Bizet
Poulenc
Wyschnegradsky
Weber
Herschel
Eberl

In very rough order:

Schumann
Beethoven
Janacek
Britten
Medtner
Chopin
Webern
Berg
Bach
Shostakovich
Hindemith
Elgar
Tallis
Machaut
Byrd
Dowland
Stravinsky
Sibelius
Vaughan Williams
Walton

I'm probably forgetting a few...

Dearest to my heart in no particular order:

Schoenberg
Bach
Górecki
Cherubini
Palestrina
Brahms
Barber
Hovhaness
Schnittke
Honegger
Shostakovich
Sibelius

J.S.Bach
Beethoven
H.Purcell
Corelli
Palestrina
Arvo Part
Samuel Barber
Buxtehude
Verdelot
Bartok
Machaut
Tavener
Taverner
Monteverdi
Liszt
Schubert
Prokofiev
Stravinsky
Bruckner

No particular order.

My favorites?

Erik Satie
Ludwig van Beethoven
Maurice Ravel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Giuseppe Torelli
Antonio Vivaldi
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Claude Debussy
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Bela Bartok
Philip Glass
Steve Reich
Toru Takemitsu
Arnold Schoenberg
Anton Webern
Alban Berg
Olivier Messiaen
Krzysztof Penderecki
Pierre Boulez
Johannes Brahms
Camille Saint-Saens
Igor Stravinsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Edvard Grieg
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Modest Mussorgsky
Antonin Dvorak
Johann Strauss II
Leos Janacek
Claudio Monteverdi
Francis Poulenc
Darius Milhaud
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Dmitri Shostakovich
Domenico Scarlatti
Carlo Gesualdo
George Crumb
Nino Rota
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Henryk Gorecki
Perotin
Sergei Prokofiev
George Phillip Telemann
William Byrd
Arvo Part
Gyorgy Ligeti
Nico Muhly
Iannis Xenakis
a lot of small time march and waltz composers
things like that...

My favourites at present:

Clementi
Haydn
Dussek
Beethoven
Nyman
Mozart
Elgar
JS Bach
Schubert
Tartini
Vivaldi
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Tchaikovsky
Hummel
Chopin
Alkan
Rachmaninov
Brahms
Neil Hannon

1. JS Bach
2. Mahler
3. Brahms
4. Schubert

These four are solid top and will most likely not change anymore as I have listened to classical music for over 25 years now.

Next would be the likes of Dvorak, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Takemitsu, Barber, Debussy, Ravel, Mozart, and Gubaidulina.

The permanent seven, listed chronologically:

Monteverdi
Haydn
Schumann
Brahms
Elgar
Nielsen
Barber

Currently intrigued by:

The Scandinavian composers


Current projects:

Chronological - Hildegard, Leonin, de Vitry, Perotin

Alphabetical - Alwyn, Arnold, J C Bach

I've only been listening seriously for a few months, so I haven't really moved on from the big names yet.

1. Beethoven - based on how much I like his piano concertos
2. Chopin - I seem to be primarily a piano music fan at the moment
3. Schubert
4. Tchaikovsky - I'm really enjoying his symphonies when I want a break from piano music (I also like his piano concertos)

Mendelssohn
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Mozart
Paganini
Rode
Bruch
Bach
Vivaldi
Sibelius
Beethoven
(and just to make those modern listeners happy ) Glass

Originally Posted by EricABQ

I've only been listening seriously for a few months, so I haven't really moved on from the big names yet.

1. Beethoven - based on how much I like his piano concertos
2. Chopin - I seem to be primarily a piano music fan at the moment
3. Schubert
4. Tchaikovsky - I'm really enjoying his symphonies when I want a break from piano music (I also like his piano concertos)

Don't worry Eric, there is a reason why those names are big.

Listen to Beethoven's violin concerto! Once you've done that listen to Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. And then the Sibelius violin concerto. Sorry, I could go on but I'll stop now.

Current favourites:

Liszt.
Beethoven.
Chopin.
Schumann.
Schubert.
Berlioz.
Debussy.
Rachmaninoff.

No order.

I love (solo) piano music most of all.

My list = Lisztian's list plus Scriabin and Ravel and minus Berlioz, in no particular order, except that Scriabin is my obsession.

Favourites:

Bach
Beethoven
Verdi
Haydn
Debussy
Liszt
Barber (nice to see that so many others here appreciate him too)
Messiaen
Mahler
Bartok
Berlioz
Stravinsky

Getting there:
Monteverdi
Sibelius
Schumann
Shostakovich
Faure

Needs more work:

Brahms
Schubert
Dvorak
Mendelssohn
Richard Strauss
Richard Wagner
Vivaldi