Favorite Classical Composers? Pieces?

[Neurotic]

Im really big into the piano, either by itself or featured in a piece. And my girlfriend (who is training to be an opera singer and loves all the classical crap) tells me that I tend to like the romantic period more than anything. Some of my favorites are:

Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninov

try some liszt, great piano works. oh and beethoven listen to much of his piano works, he is my favorite in the piano.

 

[houkai]

Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Rachmaninov - Variations on a Theme of Chopin
Verdi - Otello
Bellini - Norma
Scriabin - Black Mass sonata
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Schoenberg - Verklaerkte Naecht
Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor

and many others.

 

[thomas_j]

I love Modern Classical, I have never really listened to "real" classical music as I find the music played on radio dull. This is a recent Modern Classical album which I think will be remembered in the future:

Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

 

[The Devil's Steed]

My favorite composers are Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Wagner, Schumann, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Bach.

 

[ranma187]

Bach's first keyboard concerto in D minor BWV1052. everyone should check out the first movement it's my alltime favorite!

 

[Neurotic]

i getting to gabriel Fauré, his elegy for cello and piano is an amazing piece, beautiful. His piano nocturnes are great too, great composer. really like his style.

 

[Alexis]

I hate baroque music, but I study classical music and thus have a good reason to dislike it (hours and hours of Bach is enough to make anybody detest the guy). I much prefer to listen to, and to play music from the past 130 years. I just don't find the beauty in the older stuff - my favourite composers are Debussy, Roussel, Faure, Ravel, Shostakovich, Mahler, and so on. It's haunting, dark, mysterious, ethereal... I love it in the same way I like my metal, hahaha.

 

[Fractal_Mortality]

not mentioned yet in this thread:

Gustav Holst - The Planets
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Edgard Varese - "Arcana"
Charles Ives - Three Pieces in New England

 

[Trylakos]

I am liking a lot of modern stuff like John Adams, Phillip Glass,Bartok and stuff, as well as most of everything said here.

 

[Dee Snarl]

I prefer Bach and Mozart - especially solo, chamber, etc. pieces that exploit virtuosity and musical complexity. I too like harpsichord!




Has anyone mentioned Orff's Carmina Burana?!

 

[Fractal_Mortality]

Has anyone mentioned Orff's Carmina Burana?!

I personally think it's a classic... But many here believe it's overrated. *shrugs*

 

[GarinStone]

Sibelius. His symphonies were amazing. Especially the finale to the second. Not to mention he was born on my birthday.

 

[jennyjiz]

when's your birthday ????

 

[Neurotic]

Sibelius. His symphonies were amazing. Especially the finale to the second. Not to mention he was born on my birthday.

yeah that is a great symphony, his 4th is also great. filandia is also a great piece by him.

 

[Black Core]

I used to like Mozart, but we went to see a theaterplay called Amadeus and he was really naive and arrogant, but he worked real hard for his music.
anyway I play in a brassband so we play a lot of that kind of music, I like ennio morricone's pieces

 

[HateCrew666]

Vivaldi and Paganini both own

 

[The Devil's Steed]

I used to like Mozart, but we went to see a theaterplay called Amadeus and he was really naive and arrogant, but he worked real hard for his music.
anyway I play in a brassband so we play a lot of that kind of music, I like ennio morricone's pieces

Amadeus isn't historically correct.

 

[Manbient]

my favorites:

Giacinto Scelsi
Arvo Part
Gyorgi Ligeti
Iannis Xenakis
Henryk Gorecki
Per Norgard
Jean Sibelius
Krzysztof Penderecki

 

[The Devil's Steed]

Stravinsky fan?

 

[Neurotic]

Stravinsky fan?

sure \m/
the rite of spring, the firebird , petrushka, pulcinella are some of his works i enjoy, need to hear more of him...