Any favorite composers? My favorite list would like this (in no particular order):
Shostakovich, Ravel, Bartok, Vaughan Williams, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, Debussy, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Szymanowski, Elgar, Berg, Martinu, Hartmann, Revueltas, Ginastera, Chavez, Honegger, W. Schuman, Casella, Ives, Barber, Roussel, Mussorgsky, Tippett, Rubbra, Tubin, J. Adams, Part, Schmidt, Berlioz, Bruckner, Schoenberg, Braga Santos, Hindemith, Varese, Malipiero, Suk, Koechlin, Boulanger, Lindberg, Myaskovsky, Finzi, Milhaud, and the list goes on.