Who is your favorite Composer?

[BlancoNino]

Berlioz for me.

From what I've read his character is much like mine. It also amazes me that he never knew how to play the piano or violin...thus composing everything through his head without hitting the notes.

 

[dug777]

i like mozart, altho i know it's not very fashionable to like him

 

[HaxorNubcake]

your poll will never be complete. need 'other' option

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I didn't see Angus Young on that list.

Edit: I played most of those guys in high school orchestra.
Personally I like Pachelbel the best. (Also not on your list)

 

[BoomerD]

Hard to pick ONE favorite...Bethoven, Mozart, Wagner...so many great names on the list...funnily enough, I live in Symphony Estates subdivision...on Puccini place...
FTW!

:laugh:

 

[sobriquet]

Hooray for the canon of western classical music. I choose other.

 

[PurdueRy]

Handel > Vivaldi > Haydn

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
I didn't see Angus Young on that list.

Edit: I played most of those guys in high school orchestra.
Personally I like Pachelbel the best. (Also not on your list)

Sorry, I kept the "classical" composer to a minimum and really emphasized on romantic composers. Just goes to show my bias I guess

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Handel > Vivaldi > Hayden

I agree with that. Handel's water-music suite slays ass.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Handel > Vivaldi > Haydn

I agree with that. Handel's water-music suite slays ass.

Baroque > all

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Handel > Vivaldi > Hayden

I agree with that. Handel's water-music suite slays ass.

Baroque > all

That, I don't agree with

 

[Udel]

Tchaikovsky

 

[darianandre]

Uematsu

 

[pclstyle]

liszt, sarasate

 

[Descartes]

You misspelled Haydn.

I don't see how it's possible to declare a favorite, especially since you left out so many notable composers. I've been listening to a lot of Hummel lately.

 

[franksta]

Paganini for me.

 

[puffff]

mendelssohn's concerto in E minor FTW

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Originally posted by: franksta
Paganini for me.

And Bach and Vivaldi

 

[DainBramaged]

You have two "Brahms" and no "Rachmaninoff."

Sergei Rachmaninoff is by far my favorite composer. He speaks to me more than any other.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Berlioz for me.

From what I've read his character is much like mine.

How's that? He likes to mess around with underage girls?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
You have two "Brahms" and no "Rachmaninoff."

Sergei Rachmaninoff was the best composer ever.

Rachmaninoff is my favorite; I also like Brahms, Liszt, and others, but Rachmaninoff is definitely first IMHO.

 

[sao123]

HELLO?????
JAMES HORNER IS THE BEST COMPOSER EVER

 

[kogase]

Bach>Handel>Beethoven>Chopin>Haydn>everybody else

 

[tfinch2]

Chopin for me.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
You have two "Brahms" and no "Rachmaninoff."

Sergei Rachmaninoff was the best composer ever.

Surely you're joking? Bach contributed more to music than probably everyone there combined. Haydn and his contemporaries (including Mozart) were hundred times more prolific and truly revolutionized composition (quartets, piano concerti, etc.).

Rachmaninoff was no doubt a brilliant pianist and a good composer, but to call him the greatest is an insult to those that truly changed music. You can say he's your favorite and be right, but once you say "best composer ever" you open up to scrutiny.