Best Composer List

[bignaf]

where was this digged up from???

[BenODen]

Surprise! It's memories (obviously before I was born into these boards!) from 2001! I'm sure there are other interesting threads to be dug up back in the days.. This one took some digging though, unless he was slick and edited the URL, he went back page by page in the all threads display to get back to 2001...

I would have to bring up Copland and question his absence from this thread.. Maybe in quantity or formalism, he doesn't have the credentials as the others that have been brought up, but it seems that the emotion in his works, should get him a mention in a top 40.. Maybe there are just too many good composers. The eyeclose factor for some of his tender works and the blood pumptitude on his energetic works say to me that he is able to craft works that do their job of moving our minds to a different place.

I'll have to think some on whether I can come up with the reasoning to end up with a more subjective list than just my favorites.

Cheers,

-Benito

[Kyle]

Originally posted by MahlerMaestro:
[b] Maybe you have tried or maybe not, but i've tried tonight to rank the composers of classical music. It IS a difficult thing to do, because some composers were better in different ways. Influence is a big weight in my list. I've done Top 40 (no, I haven't been listening to Casey Casem).

Here it is, and maybe together we could come up with our own specialized list put together by us. Let the debates begin!
Heres to start off..........
NOT NECESSARILY IN ORDER!!! just to start us off in a good direction.
1.Beethoven
2.Mozart
3.Bach
4.Brahms
5.Chopin
6.Tchaikovsky
7.Haydn
8.Handel
9.Dvorak
10.Mahler
11.Wagner
12.Vivaldi
13.Shostakovich
14.Schumann
15.Bruckner
16.Rachmaninoff
17.Mendelssohn
18.Debussy
19.Saint - Saens
20.Shubert
21.Liszt
22.Richard Strauss
23.Verdi
24.Elgar
25.Prokofiev
26.Vaughn Williams
27.Rossini
28.Stravinsky
29.Sibelius
30.Bruch
31.Ravel
32.Rimsky Korsakov
33.Mussorgsky
34.Grieg
35.Franck
36.Bartok
37.Berlioz
38.Borodin
39.Holst
40.Bizet

Please give notice of any composers you feel should be included for debate and those who you feel strongly against.

Laast mich betrunken sein! ~~Mahler

:cool:

[BenMurphy6]

i sure was surprised to see mahlermaestro's name on the bbb again...

[OperaTenor]

Nobody mentioned Puccini......

[BenMurphy6]

that's a shame. :p

[dkm32]

Originally posted by operatenor:
Nobody mentioned Puccini......

All is unfair! No one mentioned Josef Strauss either.

Ah, those Right Coasters!

<small>[ 06-23-2003, 02:18 PM: Message edited by: dkm32 ]</small>

[BigJon@Work]

are you talking about your fav, or who you think is the best composer.

Whatever happened to old Thorny? Hasn't posted here since the middle of 2004. This was his first post.

[bignaf]

My Fav 10:<P>Beethoven<BR>Bach<BR>Mozart<BR>Dvoark<BR>Mendelssohn<BR>Mahler<BR>Shostakovich<BR>Verdi<BR>Prokofiev<BR>Tchaikovsky

this is actually his first.