Mozart wrote the best series of piano concertos for me.

favorite 5 classical piano composers
 

1. Beethoven
(love the appassionata! gotta check out abiow.com/beethoven-appassionata-hermeneutics/ if you love beethoven and appassionata!)
2. Chopin
3. John Field
(little know classical era composer - a must if you love chopin)
4. Bach (harpsichord - close enough)
5.Lizst

All Best!

abiow.com/beethoven-appassionata-hermeneutics/

Beethoven
Mozart
Brahms
Bach
Mendelssohn

Chopin
Mozart
Schubert
Bach
Vivaldi

Faure (especially the Requiem)
J.S. Bach (the Art of the Fugue, the Keyboard works, The Cello Suites,
The Brandenburg concertos, etc.)
Bernstein (the Chichester Psalms is my fave)
Schubert (the Mass in E flat)
Rachmaninoff (the Vespers and Piano Concertos)

Tchaikovsky
Shostakovich
Bach
Elgar
Dvorak

In no particular order:

Tchaikovsky
J.S. Bach
Gustav Holst (it's hard not to love "The Planets")
Gluck
Chopin

2nded

Way too hard to narrow this down to five.

Rachmaninov (2nd piano concerto "Adagio sostenuto" is the most beautiful piece of music ever written)
Chopin ("Fantasy Impromptu" - amazing tune)
Bela Bartok (Some really good piano concertos, hard to single anything out)
George Gershwin ("Rhapsody in Blue" is incredible, "Porgy and Bess" was genius)
Gustav Holst (Planets does it for me)
Arvids Zilinskis (underrated Latvian composer, "Elegy in Autumn" very moving)
JS Bach ("Toccota in D": my favourite ever organ piece)
Prokofiev (How long does this list go on?)
Scott Joplin (Apart from his piano rags, I'd reccomend tracking down his opera, "Treemonisha", which was his masterpiece.)

Mozart
Bach
Tchaikovsky
Strauss
Mahler

Quite an admirable list!

Bela Bartok - His six string quartets are pure indulgence, very dynamic and visceral, sometimes bordering on violent
Claude Debussey - I'm not terribly much for his symphonic work, but I haven't heard a piano piece by him that I didn't love
Dimitri Shostakovich - His symphonies are dark and brooding, just the way I like them, especially his 8th symphony. One of the best and most prolific String quartet composers of the modern era.
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Mainly for his Piano sonatas, Moonlight, Pathetique, and Apassionata are without a doubt my favorite pieces of music, full stop.
Frederich Chopin - In my opinion, next to Beethoven, the greatest piano composer ever. His Nocturnes are beyond my description.

Superb list! Although I prefer Liszt to Chopin.

definitely need to check out some Shoskatovich

any recs?

Schoenberg (early rather than later)
Stravinsky (later rather than early)
Mahler
Delius - for his control of melody alone he had to make the list.
Prokofiev

Vivaldi
Bach
Mozart
Brahms
Beethoven

Excellent stuff, I love everything there! I'm going to add Fiocco into the mix, because he composed some very original and highly complex harpsichord pieces which to this day I've heard none more innovative.

Definitely check out his Symphony No. 8 in C Minor. It's one of my favorite symphonic pieces ever:

The Jazz Suites. And Tahiti Trot!

In no particular order

Tchaikovsky
Vivaldi
Satie
Mozart
Howard Shore (a modern film composer)

Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Mozart
Beethoven
Debussy

listening to a lot of Chopin lately

Any recommendations for a particular recording of this?

beethoven
tchaikovsky
mozart
dvorak
mendelsshon

Do you like the Serenade waltz in C major written by tchaikovsky? I'm obsessed with it! It makes me want to float in the air... weird?

Charles Widor: Toccata in F
J.S.Bach: T&D in Dm
(am i safe to say this?) George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Beethoven: Moonlight sonata (all movs)
Handel: Hallelujah

at the mo', really digging:-

Copland
Stravinsky
Shostakovich
Bernstein
Gershwin

Feldman
Beuger
Beethoven
Ullmann
Cage

random order and selection, really

Mozart4eva

I've still got a lifetime of listening ahead of me, of course, but based on the listening I've done so far (in no particular order):

1. Messiaen
2. Ligeti
3. Stravinsky
4. Poulenc
5. Lutosławski

Never thought it would be so difficult to choose five of them, but still I tried and did it! Here they are:
Beethoven
Faure
Schnittke
Debussy
Vivaldi

1) Tchaikovsky
2) Mozart
3) Beethoven
4) Bach
5) Chopin

You and I might be the only people in the world that give a darn about Poulenc. :beer:
His piano works are sublime, but deceptively hard to play.

In no order:

Rachmaninoff
Debussy
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Chopin
Brahms

(yeah I like the Romantic era :p )

Strauss (Richard of course)
Wagner
Rachmaninov
Verdi
Tschaikovsky

no order^^

Tchaikovsky
Prokofiev
Bach
Chopin
Borodin

Classical composers
 

I love Classical music. Mozart,beethoven,liszt,brahms and more they were such brilliant composers. what are some of your favorite classical composers

1. Elgar

2. Chopin

3. Beethoven

4. Sibelius

5. Bach

Beethoven
Debussy
J. S. Bach
John Cage
Reich (Gotta love phases and hate the show-offs who can play them!)

Schubert
Respighi
Paganini
Vivaldi
Beethoven

Baroque: JS Bach in a landslide

Classical: Beethoven (when not in his Romantic mode)

Romantic: a three way tie between Beethoven, Chopin, and Schumann

Modern: Stravinsky with mad props to Holst & Vaughan Williams