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04 Jan 2015, 3:21 am

Hello everyone !
I am a huge fan of musical composers, one of my all-time favorites being Alan Menken (the genius behind many well-known Disney songs). I have others that I particularly love too, including John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, Alan Silvestri, Thomas Newman, Randy Newman, & Alexandre Desplat.

Do any of you have any favorite musical composers that you admire ? :roll:

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04 Jan 2015, 12:36 pm

You betcha! Let's see, in no particular order...Mahler, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Bach, Bruckner, Rameau, R. Strauss, Schubert, Lizst, Berlioz, Vivaldi, Part, Gorecki, Debussy, Ravel, Grieg...and I think that's enough for now.

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04 Jan 2015, 1:28 pm

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Wow, that's awesome ! I'm a pretty big fan of some of those composers, too.

They're incredible .. !

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04 Jan 2015, 2:10 pm

Angelo Badalamenti

Does the score for most David Lynch films

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04 Jan 2015, 2:17 pm

hilaryy_renee_ wrote:

Stargazer43 wrote:

Wow, that's awesome ! I'm a pretty big fan of some of those composers, too.

They're incredible .. !

You should join our token classical music thread in this forum: viewtopic.php?t=259394.

It's my favorite thread on this site

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04 Jan 2015, 5:11 pm

Surprise, all of mine are film composers, with most being horror composers. Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter, Richard Band, Riz Ortolani, Christopher Young and, if bands who compose film scores count, Tangerine Dream and Goblin. Goblin in particular, because their scores for numerous Italian horror classics are amazing.

Additional shout-out to Peter McConnell and Michael Land, who composed the terrific scores for LucasArts' computer games.

I don't listen to a whole lot of classical music, but Mahler, Shostakovich, Liszt, Berlioz, Rossini...I dunno.

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18 Jan 2015, 1:53 am

I don't like music that's too clean or fancy. I like music with an undercurrent of despair and alienation. Favorite composers are Sibelius and Shostakovich. I think Sibelius' Violin Concerto is the most beautiful and moving piece of music ever written and there's none of his music that I don't like.

Shostakovich seems deliberately less beautiful and more disturbing. I like that, but my favorite piece of his music is the beautiful 2nd movement of his cello concerto:

My favorite soundtracks are Clint Mansell's collaborations with Kronos Quartet like Noah and the Fountain and Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream:

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18 Jan 2015, 8:31 am

Eithne Ní Bhraonáin. She hasn't released any new compositions in a few years, even though her recording studio ("Aigle") occasionally announces that they're working on new material that will be released "soon".

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24 Jan 2015, 2:26 am

Another composer i like primarily known for soundtracks is Shigeru Umebayashi:

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24 Jan 2015, 2:42 am

Skibz888 wrote:

Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani

Yes. Fellow Tarrantino head over hurr... Clint Mansell is really cool too.

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31 Jan 2015, 3:17 pm

Ennio Morricone and Hans Zimmer

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