Classical Music

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Classical music is my greatest passion in life.

1 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Favourite Work = Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter", particularly the finale)
2 - Franz Peter Schubert (Favourite Work = Symphony No. 9 "Great")
3 - Ludwig Van Beethoven (Favourite Work = Symphony No. 9 "Choral")
4 - Franz Joseph Haydn (Favourite Work = Symphony No. 104 "London", particularly the finale)
5 - Dmitri Shostakovich (Favourite Work = Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar")
6 - Felix Mendelssohn (Favourite Work = A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture)
7 - Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky (Favourite Work = Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique")
8 - Johannes Brahms (Favourite Work = Symphony No. 3)
9 - Antonin Dvorak (Favourite Work = Symphony No. 9 "From the New World")
10 - Johann Sebastian Bach (Favourite Work = Harpsichord Concerto No. 1, particularly the first movement)

As you can tell I love symphonies/orchestral works! It's nice to see somebody started a thread on classical music.

Tchaikovsky, Bach, Brahms & Chopin are my favourites.

I'm a huge sucker for Nocturnes.

there's older pieces i'm very fond of (Beethoven's Sixth, the Hungarian Rhapsodies, ktp) but for me it doesn't become interesting enough until Alban Berg. Messiaen & Penderecki are my favorites from later on, although almost any in the mid-to-late 20c appeals to my ear. i especially like those who are trying to combine things (e.g. Messiaen took from birdsong & the East & old church music) to express their vision.

unfortunately, too much of classical music (not unlike rock or jazz) merely exists to propagate an idiom.

I'm really not a classical music fan. There are a few modern artists I enjoy such as Stephen Humphries and Two Steps From Hell, but when it comes to music I have a very wide range. However, most of the time I listen to metal.

J.S. Bach
Debussy
Beethoven
Mendelssohn
Ravel
Dvorak
Vivaldi
Rachmaninoff
Chopin
Saint-Saëns

It would have to be Stravinsky and Debussy at the moment for me. I love modern music. The soundworld is at once like the shine off metal. Its somehow devoid of colour but at the same time on closer inspection its prismatic with all these shards of brilliance.

It's not like me at all to come into a thread with something really obscure is it

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YATGRr_a-M0[/youtube]

One of my favourite genres, how I love the soothing rhythm. So peaceful. Here are my most listened to composers or any of them:

Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
Debussy
Camille Saint Saens
Tchaikovsky
Vivaldi
Some other symphonies