classical fans/players?

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Are there any other classical musicians or classical music fans out there? I know I can't be the only aspie out there...

What do you play? What are your favorite composers/pieces?

I'm a big fan of German Romaniticism and brass music...

I like hearing some of the troubadours from the 1100s. They spoke a language called Occitan (a French dialect, and also similar to Catalan), which is still spoken by a small population in south-central France. The troubadours partially sparked my interest in foreign languages.

Tim

I like music from the rennaissance, baroque and classical periods and also some modernist and experiemental stuff.

I play the flute and piano and I have sung in choirs.

I also compose.

Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz... a few of my favorites

I've been fooling myself with attempts at classical composition lately. My favorites are of the orchestral variety classics, love the big sound. Yet my own playing in the style tends towards the baroque, which I don't like to listen to, odd. But I'd rather listen to the highlights than the whole thing, more often than not; I respect the idea of thematic development, but find myself bored if things start to drag too much. Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, some Wagner and Beethoven, things of that nature. More into other genres that incorporate classical stylings like progressive rock, or "Rhapsody in Blue," or something like Stan Getz's FOCUS. King Crimson's ISLANDS is underrated, I think.

I'm more interested in the debate between "high art" and "low art," and have many rows about the value of Yes with the purely classical crowd as well as rockers. Either they're not good enough for the classical crowd, or too good for the punk/pop people. Fascinating. I fall somewhere else, I believe the classical symphonies were great achievements, but it's wrong to assume that other forms of music can't inspire or move just as much, even if they aren't as developed thematically or technically.

I'm a HUGE fan of all classical music. It's my favorite genre of all, even though I like many modern, popular types of music as well, like country and classic rock.

And ragtime.

I play the piano, viola, am learning the oboe, and have written two operas.

Nice to see the variety of tastes...I pretty much agree with Spaceplayer about the validity of different types of music...it's all in what you do with it.

I play trombone mainly...so it's no surprise I'm a fan of Mahler, Wagner, Shostakovich, Bruckner, etc. But I also see a lot of beauty in Czechguardsman's selections...I enjoy listening to those French and Spanish styles sometimes.

What are some of your favorite recordings? I have a few of the old Chicago/Reiner records on vinyl that I think are great...but I have 2 recordings of Beethoven's 9th and I'm not exactly delighted with either...

Bach, Beethovan, Mozart, Chopin, Joplin, Gershwin, Debussy, to name a few.

I play the guitar and prefer baroque or renaissance periods.

On a side note, I'd love to play in an organized group again, so if there's any other instrumentalists in the Massachusetts/Rhode Island area, drop me a line...

Beethoven, Bach, and some Mozart.
My algebra teacher plays nothing but Bach during worktime!

Bach fan. I play no instruments though.

I like German Romanticism too, and Baroque.

Dmitri Shostakovich, Maurice Ravel, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt and Glenn Danzig. I'm also looking into getting some Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy, Johann Strauss II and Robert Schumann.

Glen Danzig?


I've been a Franz Liszt fan ever since I heard one of his compositons on the classical station a few months ago.
Haven't explored much of classical outside of the obvious names though.

I grew up listening to and appreciating standard fare such as Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi. Recently, I 've been expanding my listening experience with 20th century composers such as Mahler and Prokofiev. Next on my list is Sibelius. A nice surprise was Heinrich Shutze, the father of German music, who inspired Bach and so on.