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Could I first ask your motivation for asking the question? We need to do some psychoanalysis before this thread can continue.

 

What everyones preferred style of music is.

 

Interesting, interesting... I think perhaps that has something to do with your childhood relationship with your mother...

Could I also ask: do you want discussion or data?

 

1. Wagner
2-10. TBD

 

 

People's music taste changes over a long period of time. Yes I know they can update the thread. I just couldn't find the right thread for it. Anyways, I know who to ignore in the future.

 

My top 2 never changes:

1. Mahler
2. Brahms

usually Schubert is in position 3

Everything else changes with the wind.

 

1. Mahler
2. Liszt
3. Vivaldi
4. Cage
5. Brahms
6. Stockhausen
7. Ditters von Dittersdorf
8. Sebastian de Albero
9. Sorabji
10. Hypothetical Chinese Composer

 

8. Sebastian de Albero
10. Hypothetical Chinese Composer

I can't believe you made two (not one, but two!) references to composers whom I've been championing all the time I've been here. (Happiest day of my life )

And yes, de Albero was a fine composer. And the hypothetical Chinese guy is worthy of all the praise and greatness in the world.

Good stuff.

 

I'll bite..

1. Franz Peter Schubert

2. Franz Schubert

3. F. P. Schubert

4. Schubert, Franz Peter

5. Schubert

6. Bach

7. Brahms

8. Beethoven

9. Grieg

10. Tchaikovsky

 

Schnittke, Berio, Ligeti, Maderna, Boulez, Takemitsu, Lutoslawski, Szymanowski, Penderecki, Gubaidulina.

 

Maderna also wrote some fine film scores.

 

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Dvorak
Mahler
Mozart
Ravel
Schubert
Strauss
Stravinsky

Nothing really unique here...

 

As of recent, I would add the great renaissance composer Josquin. If forced to remove one, I guess it would be Ravel.

 

Every time I recite my favourites, a portion of my soul ceases to exist.

 

My guess your top ten is:

1. Beethoven
2. Tchaikovsky
3. Bach
4. Stravinsky
5. Schubert
6. Wagner
7. Strauss, Richard
8. Haydn
9. Dvořák
10. Prokofiev

(Please, everybody take part)

 

A few changes since the last time I did this...

1) Bach
2) Ravel
3) Bartok
4) Mozart
5) Beethoven
6) Debussy
7) Mahler
8) Schubert
9) Monteverdi
10) Mendelssohn

There are a lot of composers who could go in that tenth spot depending on my mood...

 

This is an entertaining thread if you go back and read the whole thing.

A few changes since the last time I did this...

I hope to have a few changes myself, though my broad Top 10 list seems to have been something like this forever. I could almost make a narrow Top 10 of my top 8 Baroque composers and Haydn and Mozart but that's what Top 10 Baroque Composers lists are for. So, being slightly broader in range (I can't be much broader) and pretty boring and putting it In chronological order:

Vivaldi
Telemann
Bach
Handel
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Mendelssohn
Brahms

There are a lot of composers who could go in that tenth spot depending on my mood...

Same here (#10 being Mendelssohn most days).

 

Listing composers like this is not native to my experience of music, and I can't make a list that is true, but in a spirit of defiance I will do so anyway because within the limits of the terms of service and contrary to recent threads I can do whatever I want, so here's a big middle finger to the haters:

1. J. Strauss I
2. J. Strauss II
3. Chopin
4. Tchaikovsky
5. John Williams
6. Xenakis
7. Stockhausen
8. Boulez
9. Schoenberg
10. Berg

 

Haters? Oh, and you probably should have put Cage there for added effect.

 

He also forgot Phillip Glass.

 

Very good suggestions. I wish I'd thought of them!

I'll do a new anti-hater top 10:

1. J. Strauss I
2. J. Strauss II
3. Chopin
4. Glass
5. John Williams
6. Cage
7. Stockhausen
8. Boulez
9. Schoenberg
10. Berg

 

I've had my Eureka moment.

I've been hoping for a discussion of classical music free from condescension, and being disappointed not to find it. But condescension is of course an ineradicable part of human nature, and classical music is a field created precisely for condescension to flourish. It's always been this way, it always will be; perhaps the long-sought definition of "classical music" is "music whose listeners are condescending."

 

Rather than going by what most think are going by as the best composers, pick the ones you enjoy the most based on your knowledge of classical music. Maybe this thread was done before as well but I'm lazy looking up for it. As you see I'm biased towards Baroque music on my list.

These are a bit like my core group of composers, I often listen to their music, often feel a need to return to it -

These are like old friends, long time acquaintances -
Beethoven,
Brahms,
Janacek,
Berg,
Messiaen,
Walton

These are more recent discoveries -
Schoenberg,
Tippett,
Peter Sculthorpe,
Hovhaness, Carter - probably my most listened to two Americans, but there are others too...

 

I'll be outrageous and do exactly what the OP asked!

Top 10 for today

1. Bruckner
2. Wagner
3. Mahler
4. Sibelius
5. Beethoven
6. Brahms
7. Schubert
8. Rachmaninov
9. Mozart
10. R. Strauss

 

Today's top 10 is:

1. Tchaikovsky
2. Beethoven
3. Rachmaninoff
4. Mozart
5. Schubert
6. Chopin
7. Dvorak
8. Brahms
9. Débussy
10. Franck

If Gershwin was reckoned to be a classical composer, he would be somewhere in my top three, but since he is too jazzy and there are a lot of discussions about him being a classical composer or not, I did not count him in.

 

1. Rachmaninoff
2. Beethoven
3. Shostakovich
4. Scriabin
5. Tchaikovsky
6. Sibelius
7. Liszt
8. Brahms
9. Copland
10. Bach

Suck on that, classical composers.

 

Seriously now:

1. Beethoven/Schumann
3. Bach
4. Chopin
5. Janacek
6. Vaughan Williams
7. Hindemith
8. Tschaikowsky
9. Dowland
10. Byrd

 

Recently I've started rating all the pieces I listen to into a 'listening log', and with those results it seems this is my list:

1. Schubert
2. Berlioz
3. Sibelius
4. Beethoven
5. Mahler
6. Tchaikovsky
7. Bach
8. Brahms
9. Mozart
10. Shostakovich

 

Today it is:

1. Mozart
2. Beethoven
3. Haydn
4. JS Bach
5. Schubert
6. Brahms
7. Dvorak
8. Rossini
9. Handel
10. Tchaikovsky

Mozart and Beethoven are always my 1,2..........the rest move around a little.

 

Not in any order:

Schumann
Brahms
Bach
Beethoven
Mozart

They're practically all I've been listening to lately. Boring, I know.