composers

[ayooluwa]

can i know your favorite composer

[Trumpetmaster]

can i know your favorite composer

Hi ayooluwa

Welcome to the BBB!!!
I have a lot of them but my favorite composer... is Gustav Mahler

Post Often!!!

Regards,
TM

[EricP]

I love my Mozart. While it may not be the most complex music, his melodies and structure greatly appeal to me. Of course, Beethoven is near the top.

[Shapley]

Mine vary:

For Symphonies - Mahler

For Concerti - Vivaldi

For Opera - Bizet

For Piano Music - Rachmaninov

For Organ Music - Bach

For Chamber Music (other than concerti) - Mozart

[EricP]

Mine vary:

For Symphonies - Mahler

For Concerti - Vivaldi

For Opera - Bizet

For Piano Music - Rachmaninov

For Organ Music - Bach

For Chamber Music (other than concerti) - Mozart

How very organized. I never tried to break it down that way.

[Shapley]

It's hard for me to do it any other way. If I were to pick a favourite composer right now, it would be Vivaldi, because I've been in a concerto mood lately. A couple of months ago, it would have been Rachmaninov, because I was enjoying his piano music.

Mahler always remains at the top of the Symphony list. I'm probably with the majority of our regular posters on that one, but there's tough competition in that field.

I don't know opera well. The Pearl Fishers and Carmen are two of the few that I've heard all the way through, and the only two right now I'd go out of my way to attend (well, okay, The Magic Flute, too), so Bizet is my favourite composer of operas at this point. I'm sure I'm in the minority there.

I like a lot of Mozart's music, but his chamber music is the only area that I could honestly say he is my favourite.

V/R
Shapley

[jamiebk]

I am hard pressed to select a "favorite" composer. I could not select one anymore than I could a favorite food. Sure, I love pizza, but I could not live on it of the rest of my life. I guess if I had to pick a composer to whom I had to listen the rest of my life (to the exclusion of others) it would be Beethoven. I'd follow this up with Mozart. In comparison to wine (which I love) Beethoven would be like a big full bodied cabernet sauvignon, while Mozart would be more like a fine Pinot Noir. I would not want to do without either.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Bizet and Verdi; Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Wagner when I'm in a seriously cranky mood. Rimsky-Korsakov. Bach and Handel when I feel like humming along.
And since I like a whole lot of movie soundtracks, I'd have to include most of the currently-living crowd that compose for Hollywood. Lennon/McCartney, Neil Diamond, and Mason Williams probably belong on the list, too.

[BigJon@Work]

My favorites may shift with the winds, but I always go running back to Bach when the weather gets rough.

[Trumpetmaster]

My favorites may shift with the winds, but I always go running back to Bach when the weather gets rough.

Ah Bach!!!