Who are your favourite classical composers?

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14 Mar 2007, 12:09 pm

I mostly love music from the romantic era,Chopin and Liszt wrote some magnificent pieces.

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14 Mar 2007, 12:18 pm

Here are three of my favourites-

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

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14 Mar 2007, 1:17 pm

1812 overture : when it goes into that degressing 5 step staccato ... wow ... Techno All the way.

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14 Mar 2007, 1:20 pm

Bach
Beethoven
Dvorak

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14 Mar 2007, 3:24 pm

Johann Sebastion Bach
Ludwig von Beethoven
Gustav Mahler
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Gustav Holst
Edvard Grieg
Thomas Tallis
William Byrd
Gregorio Allegri
Carl Orff
Eric Satie
Igor Stravinsky
Sergei Rachmaninov
Sergei Prokoviev

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14 Mar 2007, 4:03 pm

If I had to narrow it down to 10, in no particular order:

J.S. Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Verdi
Wagner
Brahms
Handel
Vivaldi
Strauss
Stravinsky

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14 Mar 2007, 4:34 pm

I love Mozart more than any other. His music is perfect, and fellow piano-players will know what I mean :wink:
Ravel is also very good, the Bolero being a weaker piece.
And of course Vivaldi, Bach and Beethoven.

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14 Mar 2007, 11:08 pm

You bums should all check out Apocalyptica. Friggen' awesome. They're kind of like a mix between rock and classical--A few guys with cellos playing an exciting rock beat.

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15 Mar 2007, 1:13 am

Chopin
Liszt
Puccini

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16 Mar 2007, 9:32 pm

I like Bach, Mozart and Hyden.

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17 Mar 2007, 3:19 am

Enigma wrote:

I mostly love music from the romantic era,Chopin and Liszt wrote some magnificent pieces.

I like Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody.

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17 Mar 2007, 3:22 am

IrishEyes wrote:

Here are three of my favourites-

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

All good choices! Which of their works do you admire the most? I found Tchaikovsky's "Slave March" elicited a strange emotional response from me. I am learning one of Mozart's Menuets in my piano (actually keyboard) lessons, along with a diverse range of works from other eras.

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17 Mar 2007, 3:42 am

Khraese wrote:

You bums should all check out Apocalyptica. Friggen' awesome. They're kind of like a mix between rock and classical--A few guys with cellos playing an exciting rock beat.

It's cello metal but I think it could be loosely described as classical.

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17 Mar 2007, 3:54 am

Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach and a whole bunch of others. The thing about Mozart is that when the world is too much for me, I can turn on Mozart and hear/feel sanity and peace and gratitude. I've read that his work vibrates at the same rate as the ... planet? universe? Whatever. It's a gift from the gods.

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17 Mar 2007, 7:19 am

AlexandertheSolitary wrote:

Enigma wrote:

I mostly love music from the romantic era,Chopin and Liszt wrote some magnificent pieces.

I like Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody.

Can you play it on the piano?
I've got the music for it,but it's above my ability.

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17 Mar 2007, 7:27 am

Mostly Beethoven and Bach...
And also Ludovico Einaudi, known for his piece: Le Onde (Which I'm learning at the moment)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9mtHQ2bLkU[/youtube]

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