Composers represented by the composers that influenced them the most
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
Last edited by StevenOBrien; Jun-09-2012 at 04:43.
Brahms:
Beethoven
Schubert
Schumann
Mozart
(in roughly descending order of intensity of influence)
Last edited by Hausmusik; Jun-08-2012 at 22:05.
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Dvorak:
Brahms
Beethoven
Smetana
Berlioz
Wagner
Mozart
Am I right?
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Mendelssohn:
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Last edited by Hausmusik; Jun-08-2012 at 22:31.
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Ligeti
Bartók
Webern
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Bach
God
Vivaldi
Lully
Handel
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
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Gustav Mahler
Wagner
Beethoven
Bruckner
Schubert
Klezmer band in his village
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.
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Some more -
Elgar
- R. Strauss
- Brahms
Shostakovich had many, incl.
- Mahler
- Berg
- Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, to some degree
- Prokofiev
- J. S. Bach
Liszt, his three compositional idols where:
- Beethoven
- Weber
- Schubert
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Schubert
Beethoven
Mozart
Saliere
Michael Haydn
Rossini
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!)
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Originally Posted by StevenOBrien
Don't forget Gluck. I believe he was an important influence on Mozart's operatic style.
John Cage
Marcel Marceau
True, added.Don't forget Gluck. I believe he was an important influence on Mozart's operatic style.
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