[allaroundmusicenthusiast]

That's a very nice bunch indeed.

Thank you very much, yours too. 5 out of 10 matches, and the most important one, Ligeti. I think you and I are the only ones who picked him

 

[Nedeslusire]

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Orlande de Lassus
• Tomás Luis de Victoria
• Kassiani
• Hildegard von Bingen
• John Koukouzelis
• Thomas Tallis
• William Byrd
• Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi
• Johann Sebastian Bach

In no particular order...

 

[Maurengo]

I couldn't decide on my top 10, so I decided to ask Spotify. It turns out that my most played composers are shown here:

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[klappco]

Mine, in no particular order:

JS Bach
Dvorak
Haydn
Beethoven
Schumann
Vaughan Williams
Brahms
Mahler
Mozart
Bartók

 

[Simon Moon]

I guess it's been a while since we had one of these.

I'll play along.

No particular order:

Elliott Carter
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg
Charles Wuorinen
Joan Tower
Bela Bartok
Stravinsky
Luciano Berio
Penderecki
Ligeti

Not quite sure if Berio belongs on my list, but I have been on Berio listening spree lately, so I'll include him for now.

Maybe Boulez, Gubaidulina , Schnittke, Norgard or Birtwistle could make my list, if I responded on another day.

 

[KlassikerDronning]

1. Brahms
2. Bach
3. Beethoven
4. Schumann
5. Reger
6. Messiaen
7. Hindemith
8. Carter
9. Xenakis
10. Palestrina

These are not necessarily my 10 favourite composers but the ones I`d take to a desert island.

No Schubert next to Beethoven and Bach?! BLASPHEMY.

 

[KlassikerDronning]

Mine, in no particular order:

JS Bach
Dvorak
Haydn
Beethoven
Schumann
Vaughan Williams
Brahms
Mahler
Mozart
Bartók

No Schubert next to Beethoven and Bach?! BLASPHEMY

 

[KlassikerDronning]

I guess it's been a while since we had one of these.

I'll play along.

No particular order:

Elliott Carter
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg
Charles Wuorinen
Joan Tower
Bela Bartok
Stravinsky
Luciano Berio
Penderecki
Ligeti

Not quite sure if Berio belongs on my list, but I have been on Berio listening spree lately, so I'll include him for now.

Maybe Boulez, Gubaidulina , Schnittke, Norgard or Birtwistle could make my list, if I responded on another day.

All hacks

 

[sqorda]

I guess it's been a while since we had one of these.

I'll play along.

No particular order:

Elliott Carter
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg
Charles Wuorinen
Joan Tower
Bela Bartok
Stravinsky
Luciano Berio
Penderecki
Ligeti

Not quite sure if Berio belongs on my list, but I have been on Berio listening spree lately, so I'll include him for now.

Maybe Boulez, Gubaidulina , Schnittke, Norgard or Birtwistle could make my list, if I responded on another day.

Berio. Nice!

 

[KlassikerDronning]

I guess it's about time I did one of these for composers!

1. Hector Berlioz
2. Charles-Marie Widor
3. Gustav Mahler
4. Anton Bruckner
5. Ludwig van Beethoven
6. Igor Stravinsky
7. Johann Sebastian Bach
8. Johannes Brahms
9. Antonin Dvorak
10. Franz Schubert

Imagine you were forced to choose. You can only ever listen to ten composers. And you have to choose now.

So not the ten greatest, most important (or whatever) composers. But your ten composers.

(Yes, this is idiocy. Of course. But I have very important things to do. And I do not want to do them. I will do this instead.)

My 10 (chronologically):

JS Bach
Haydn
Beethoven
Schubert
Schumann
Brahms
Mahler

Imagine you were forced to choose. You can only ever listen to ten composers. And you have to choose now.

So not the ten greatest, most important (or whatever) composers. But your ten composers.

(Yes, this is idiocy. Of course. But I have very important things to do. And I do not want to do them. I will do this instead.)

My 10 (chronologically):

JS Bach
Haydn
Beethoven
Schubert
Schumann
Brahms
Mahler
Debussy
Bartók
Ligeti

Yes, no Mozart.

But I figured I don’t really need Mozart. I’ve soaked him up anyway. Been listening to Mozart since I was seventeen or something (my brain tells me that makes forty years, something that I categorically refuse to believe). And when I’m in neeeeed of something, I very rarely turn to Mozart these days, haven’t for a long time. Haydn and Beethoven are my buddies, I can have a real conversation with them. But not with Mozart. He’s not about him and me. I can just look at him, admire him, marvel at him, yes. Except maybe in K516. And K491. Incredible psychodramas and both very ”real” (if you catch my drift). But however much I love them, they don’t really involve, include, invite, me. Pick any Beethoven piano sonata and Beethoven’s there in the room with you. That is, with me. And we’re talking. Right off the mark. And yes, there’s the first mvt of K504 (there’s tons of stuff, of course, the operas…). Figaro! Miracle of miracles! But what do you actually do with a miracle? What do you do with perfect? After forty years.

And I also had to exclude Monteverdi, Rameau (that was painful!), Handel (he’s always best when I’m drunk and I’m hardly ever drunk anymore, so…), Berlioz and Stravinsky. And Xenakis (but that’s OK. I think). And there are a few others, many, actually, that I will miss very much too. Yes.

And apologies, again, as always, for my not always good English.

Debussy
Bartók
Ligeti

Yes, no Mozart.

But I figured I don’t really need Mozart. I’ve soaked him up anyway. Been listening to Mozart since I was seventeen or something (my brain tells me that makes forty years, something that I categorically refuse to believe). And when I’m in neeeeed of something, I very rarely turn to Mozart these days, haven’t for a long time. Haydn and Beethoven are my buddies, I can have a real conversation with them. But not with Mozart. He’s not about him and me. I can just look at him, admire him, marvel at him, yes. Except maybe in K516. And K491. Incredible psychodramas and both very ”real” (if you catch my drift). But however much I love them, they don’t really involve, include, invite, me. Pick any Beethoven piano sonata and Beethoven’s there in the room with you. That is, with me. And we’re talking. Right off the mark. And yes, there’s the first mvt of K504 (there’s tons of stuff, of course, the operas…). Figaro! Miracle of miracles! But what do you actually do with a miracle? What do you do with perfect? After forty years.

And I also had to exclude Monteverdi, Rameau (that was painful!), Handel (he’s always best when I’m drunk and I’m hardly ever drunk anymore, so…), Berlioz and Stravinsky. And Xenakis (but that’s OK. I think). And there are a few others, many, actually, that I will miss very much too. Yes.

And apologies, again, as always, for my not always good English.

At least you picked Bach, Beethoven as well as the almighty SCHUBERT unlike most of these Katy Perry Bozo's. Your English is better than theirs too. I see you are fra Sverige. Jeg er Dansk. Skål!✊🏻

Mine in no particular order:

SCHUBERT
Bach
Beethoven
Hyden
Handel
Telleman
Mozart
Mendelssohn
Lizst
Some Finnish composer I can't think of his name right now.

Yeah.

 

[justekaia]

At least you picked Bach, Beethoven as well as the almighty SCHUBERT unlike most of these Katy Perry Bozo's. Your English is better than theirs too. I see you are fra Sverige. Jeg er Dansk. Skål!✊🏻

Mine in no particular order:

SCHUBERT
Bach
Beethoven
Hyden
Handel
Telleman
Mozart
Mendelssohn
Lizst
Some Finnish composer I can't think of his name right now.

Yeah.

Plse be so kind to correct the spelling of the names of the composers.

 

[Kjetil Heggelund]

My 10 composers are...
Mozart, JS Bach, Schubert, Lassus, Denisov, Davies, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Dvorak & Haydn...wow, I can listen to music for eternity, twice...

 

[Kjetil Heggelund]

The

At least you picked Bach, Beethoven as well as the almighty SCHUBERT unlike most of these Katy Perry Bozo's. Your English is better than theirs too. I see you are fra Sverige. Jeg er Dansk. Skål!✊🏻

Mine in no particular order:

SCHUBERT
Bach
Beethoven
Hyden
Handel
Telleman
Mozart
Mendelssohn
Lizst
Some Finnish composer I can't think of his name right now.

Yeah.

It's Saariaho ho ho!

 

[allaroundmusicenthusiast]

All hacks

Please dear God, not another one of you lot

 

[KlassikerDronning]

What d

Please dear God, not another one of you lot

What do you mean?

 

[MatthewWeflen]

Beethoven
Sibelius
Brahms
Haydn
Mendelssohn
Schubert
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
R. Strauss
Bruckner

However, the exercise and its painful cuts remind me of how broad my listening had actually become. Certainly Shostakovich and Dvorak are the most painful, but also Nielsen, Copland, Elgar, Walton, Hanson, John Williams, Bach, Prokofiev...

 

[allaroundmusicenthusiast]

What d

What do you mean?

You know

 

[Phil loves classical]

At this moment:
1. Beethoven (his last 3 piano sonatas alone are enough to put him at #1).
2. Bartok (absolutely ingenious)
3. Roger Sessions (a lot to chew on, always very stimulating to me)
4. Schoenberg (can't really explain this choice, but like Sessions)
5. Ravel (beautiful music, with something to chew on)
6. Prokofiev (very distinctive expressions)
7. Tchaikovsky (great melodies, orchestration)
8. Debussy (absolutely ingenious)
9. Schnittke (crazy and glorious)
10. Stravinsky (very distinctive expressions)

 

[Mifek]

Chopin
Bach
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Prokofiev
Mozart
Schubert
Brahms
Shostakovich
Vivaldi

 

[SuperTonic]

Mahler
Shostakovich
Beethoven
JS Bach
Tchaikovsky
Bartok
Stravinsky
Schoenberg
Ligeti
Lutoslawski

I wanted to include Berg and Webern, but I don't know who else I'd bump off. As much as I enjoy their music, they're output is relatively limited, which is why I ultimately decided to leave them off. Leaving out Dvorak was painful as well.