Favorite Classical Composers? Pieces?

[The Devil's Steed]

I was actually asking Mumblefood since he's a very big fan of modern composers. Cool, though.

 

[Neurotic]

I was actually asking Mumblefood since he's a very big fan of modern composers. Cool, though.

ooopz

btw been listening to sinfonia da requiem and the cello symphony of benjamim britten, great stuff, anyone here familiar with his work?

 

[Manbient]

Stravinsky fan?

Yes, but i can't say i'm really familiar with his work. I've enjoyed what i have heard though. Have you got any reccomended pieces?

 

[BlackMetal>AnyMusic]

Debussy. No contest.

 

[Neurotic]

Debussy. No contest.

ive only heard le mer by him, and its great, need to get more of his stuff.

 

[GarinStone]

when's your birthday ????

December 8th.




And finlandia and the other tone poems are the only things by him I don't like. I perfer the 5th to the 4th but the 4th is still head and shoulders above other composers and it makes todays music look like monkeys beat it out of a coconut.

 

[The Subjugator]

I am just getting into this genre and have only really started taking in:

Richard Wagner
Franz Schubert
Mozart

I'm too lazy to look up the titles of the pieces I have...

 

[Black Core]

Amadeus isn't historically correct.

I know but yet it still something that keeps going through my head, can't help it

 

[The Devil's Steed]

Yes, but i can't say i'm really familiar with his work. I've enjoyed what i have heard though. Have you got any reccomended pieces?

Start with The Rite of Spring.

 

[Neurotic]

Start with The Rite of Spring.

oh yeah

 

[infoterror]

Stravinsky is alright, but quite pop.

For pop, I'll take on Schubert or Haydn or Handel and do better by it...

My favorite is Beethoven, but I'm fond of Romantics (Brahms/Schumann) and one modern in particular, Anton Bruckner.

Not sure I give a shit at all about "new music." It's a heap of garbage.

 

[Neurotic]

Stravinsky is alright, but quite pop.

For pop, I'll take on Schubert or Haydn or Handel and do better by it...

My favorite is Beethoven, but I'm fond of Romantics (Brahms/Schumann) and one modern in particular, Anton Bruckner.

Not sure I give a shit at all about "new music." It's a heap of garbage.

stravinsky pop? what did you listen from him? if the rite of spring , the firebird or petrushka are pop then im crazy lol

 

[derbeder]

'pop' is probably not the word you are looking for.

 

[derbeder]

my favorites:

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

I would add Witold Lutoslawski among the post WWII composers on this list.

 

[derbeder]

In terms of a couple specific compositions I would recommend
Penderecki - Violin Concerto no.1, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Part - Fratres, Psalom, Trisagion
Lutoslawski - String Quartet
Ligeti - Etudes for piano

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Favorite classical pieces? Too many to name, but off the top of my head here are a few great ones:
Stravinsky- The Rite of Spring
Debussy- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Bartok- Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Berg- Violin Concerto
Kilar- Angelus
Part- Te Deum
Mozart- Don Giovanni
Bach- Passacaglia in C minor
etc. etc. etc.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

this is my kind of topic
lets see.
shostakovich - my favorite, his symphonies , quartets, violin and cello concerto
are amazing, everything from his mid and later period(dark and depressing, check out string quartet n15) is amazing. (not too found of his first compositions, too jazzy and goofy)

He is great. I especially like Sym. 10. The first movement is immensely dark, liking going to a Gulag.

arvo pärt - spiritual , emotional minimalistic music, awesome chorals, check out cantus in memory of benjamim britten, so much emotion, beautiful music.

My favorite contemporary composer, probably along with Gorecki as the master of getting maximum emotion out of the smallest simplest ideas possible.

beethoven - love his piano works, symphonies (not all of them, the minor key ones are the best)

Me I love all his symphonies... but 3, 6, 7, and 9 are supreme.

bach - the master...

Indeed, at one time my favorite but now I have too many favorites to choose from.

then a lot of other composers, stravinsky and bartok are amazing as well, mahler for the big epic symphonies, dvorak symponies are cool too, sibelius as some beautiful music, allan petterson with his death symphonies, gorecki
of course, rachmaninov his piano concertos and the isle of the dead are great. i'm not too found of mozart but i have to give props to him for the requiem, masterpiece!

Aw man! Mozart is the bomb! Check out Don Giovanni and Piano Concertos 20-27 if you haven't already.

 

[Seingrinder]

Mozart's Requiem in D Minor
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Brahm's Violin Concertos
Sibelius' Tempst 1 and 2

 

[Dee Snarl]

Stravinsky is alright, but quite pop.

For pop, I'll take on Schubert or Haydn or Handel and do better by it...

My favorite is Beethoven, but I'm fond of Romantics (Brahms/Schumann) and one modern in particular, Anton Bruckner.

Not sure I give a shit at all about "new music." It's a heap of garbage.

I can't get to this fool's "Philosophy Forum" because my work filter blocks it for "Hate/Terror."

What a shock.

 

[MegaMoose]

I'm trying to get into the Rite of Spring and I'm liking what I'm hearing, but it's quite a challenging piece of music. Not the easiest thing to get into if you ask me.

Anyway, I love Chopin, Beethoven, Gershwin (I don't think I've seen him mentioned, although this topic mentions plenty of 20th century composers), Shostakovich, etc. Too lazy to think of more at the moment.