Sorry to jump on the Mozart bandwagon, but I'd have to say that he's my favorite. His music just blows me away.

I have to say Beethoven, his later works, especially the string quartets are my favorites

Rachmaninov.
All of his works are brilliant

Rachmaninoff for sure, I'm a piano guy, and that stuff is AMAZING. After that, Mozart is awesome, and Hayden is great too.

But seriously, guys and girls, Romance by Rachmaninoff is worth a listen if you're trying to vibe out, or seduce somebody? haha

I tend to go for the more modern composers. I like Arvo Part, John Williams, Micheal Nyman, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich. I am a big fan of Reich and have a fair bit of his stuff though I know he can polarize somewhat.

I also have Music Of The Spheres by Mike Oldfield and am not surprised that he headed in this direction.

In no particular order with a great example of his work:

Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata
Robert Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor
Antonín Dvořák - "New World" Symphony
Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations
Alexander Scriabin - Sonata No. 9 "Black Mass Sonata"

In no order...

Bedrich Smetana
Gustav Holst
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Claude Debussy
Rimsky-Korsakov

I find Schumann's music very interesting. The Variations in the Name of Abegg is so fun to play. I'm playing it right now. xD
I'm also in love with Debussy. His music is beautiful. I'm currently playing his Reflections in the Water. :D

I love Bach.

Beethoven. Very tragic but unique.

For me it's either Beethoven or Chopin.

Hmm.. I am young to classical music. But from my present point of view Boccherini and Tchaikovsky are brilliant

For me it is definitely Mozart. He is a music genius. I love all of his compositions.

For me it would have to be Haydn-especially "Trauer" and "Farewell". I also love listening to Corelli and Holst "Planet Suite" because it contains "I Vow To Thee My Country"

My favourites are Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and Bach.

Mine favorite classical composer is Joseph Haydn. He was Mozart's friend and Beethoven's teacher.Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise). This is really a fun.

Bach wasn't a classical composer, he wrote baroque music.

who cares. the damned AP theory class i took was entirely based of of conventions that he used commonly but broke on occasion.

ohhhh same as Adolf Hitler

oh shush. hitler didnt deserve to be proud of wagner

For my school talent show i'm playing Siegfreid's call on my horn. SHould be interesting considering how many jews are at my school.....
cant help it tho. its just such a cool horn part

Yeah and you could also say Chopin didn't write classical music, he wrote Romantic music. Or Debussy wrote Impressionistic music. It doesn't matter, classical is just a big umbrella term.

like rock, jazz, and metal.
actually metal kind of falls under the umbrella term of Rock.

but anyway, the fact of the matter is, most people dont understand the categorization of classical subgenres, so its all put under the general title of "classial."

like how "The Who" is labeled under rock and so are "The Ramones." just different types of rock.

and "The Gordan Goodwin Band" and Charlie Parker both played jazz. it was just different jazz.

so you just begin to split hairs.

György Ligeti is definitely my current favourite composer.

Tchaikovsky

Modern wise, John Williams and Howard Shore, lol

I love Debussy's "Girl with the flaxen hair." Does anyone recommend anything similar?

^Beethoven's Sonatas for violin and piano.

Chopin is my favorite classical composer! DUH! It's in my name! :)

I definitely recommend Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun". I guarantee you will fall in love with that piece.

I already commented on this topic, but I just wanted to add another thing...

I absolutely LOVE Prokofiev's 5 piano concertos!!

CHOPIN- Prelude in C Minor. So pretty and so sad and "lachrymose".

I think my favorite at this point in time is something a little different; Aaron Copland. Such bold, noble, unique, and natural sounding music.

My top of the most famous are Dvorak, Beethoven, and Tchaikovky. Beethoven is awesome, Dvorak is really interesting and imaginative, and Tchaikovsky has the absolutely most memorable tunes. I love Holst. Emmanuel Chabrier is a favorite. I'm also one of those Erik Satie guys. Debussy is nice. Johann Strauss Jr. Stravinsky. I've always liked Saint-Saens. I'm actually a big Haydn guy. Mozart's music is universally beautiful, too beautiful to be true in many cases, I love his music. It takes me to my special place, hehe. Lizt's hungarian rhapsody no. 2 is such an awesome piano piece. I know I'm forgetting some. J.S Bach is very juicy mind music, gives you something to think about. Vivaldi really excity concerti and Handel's water music is superb. There are certainly others. I won't I won't regret not representing them.

Wagner and Beethoven

paganini, sarasate, hindemith, vivaldi

Barber's Essays for Orchestra and Holst's lesser known choral works are my favorites.

Dvorak for symphony and opera. Lizt for piano.

Wagner, Morricone, Saariaho, Bach, Stravinsky, Berg

Debussy, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Vivaldi.

Truly, top quality posting :)

I admit, I don't stray too far from the classics except for Part who is already a living legend.

Handel, Debussy, Liszt, Stravinsky, Holst, Copeland, Faure, Part.

John Williams - hands down
go check out his American Dreams album that came out around the Olympics in Salt Lake.

he does wonderful stuff outside movie composing

Dennis Alexander. . . does he count? hes more romantic