1. Rachmaninoff- I don't remember hearing another composer that equaled his chops. One of the best.

2. Mozart- Surely deserves a place in any top 5 for Eine Kleine Nachtmusik alone.

3. Schubert- I love the mood of his music. Probably not as accomplished as most but he certainly speaks to my ears.

4. Beethoven- If he wasn't a composer and he was born in this day and age he would have been one of those commercially huge artists that everyone hated on because he didn;t write something as great as Moonlight Sonata everytime.

5. Brahms/Haydn- I link them together because they have alot of similarities in writing epic pieces that transcend. I can't choose between them.

Tchaikovsky
Mussorgsky
Bach
Tell
Mozart

1. Schubert (String Quintet in C)
2. Beethoven (String Quartet in Am)
3. Mendelssohn (Midsummer Night's Dream Overture)
4. Vivaldi (Concerto for 2 Trumpets)
5. Dvorak (American Quartet)

Difficult, but here i go,

Liszt (la campanella)

Rach (Prelude G minor)

Prokofiev (Montagues et Capulets - Romeo And Juliet)

Beethoven ( Moonlight Sonata 3rd Mov.)

Chopin (Waltz E-minor, No. 14)

Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Chopin
Vivaldi
Wagner

In particular order.

Do you like Schumann's piano music? Going by this list, which is very similar to mine, you should

If I'd heard him before, I must have overlooked it. I just listened to "Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120 (1851 - an orchestral piece)" and enjoyed it very much.

I also listened to Requiem Op. 148 (Requiem aeternam) which was a choral and dramatic composition according to Wikipedia which I like even better. Very melancholic and (without irony) dramatic.

Thanks, Paul.

IMO one of the best piano pieces, along with Chopin's 24 preludes

Rachmaninoff
Chopin
Beethoven
Wagner
Tchaikovsky

+

Mikael Tariverdiev
Ennio Morricone

I actually have Evgeny Kissin performing Chopin's 24 Preludes and it's a breath-takingly beautiful performance.

on nr 5, mozart, on nr 4 beethoven, nr3 choppin, nr2 claude debusy and nr1 erik satie

My top five:

1. Beethoven (far beyond anyone else)
2. Schubert
3. Tchaikovsky
4. Bach (for his organ work mostly)
5. Vivaldi

Thanks for sharing that, Paul. I fell in love with this piece.

My 5:

1. Glass (sorry, but he introduced me to classical)
2. Beethoven
3. Stravinsky
4. Gershwin
5. Shostakovich

I think that people tend to be entirely too apologetic for liking Phillip glass. I think he's a great composer. The rest of your list is pretty spot on too.

In my novice opinion:

Beethoven
Penderecki
Bach
Gershwin
Tchaicovsky/Chopin

I really like the tunefulness of Tchaicovsky's stuff, and Chopin has really great atmosphere as well as technique. Gershwin I should get more familiar with before i include him for sure. The other guys i luuuuuuv.

Penderecki, niiiice. "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" is an excellent composition. It's also a great way to get people to leave you alone, haha.

Yeah, me and my girlfriend were fighting while I had it on for homework one time and she told me to turn it off so no one would die.

My Favorite Composers
 

1. Tchaikovsky
2. Grainger
3. Sousa
4. Holst
5. Mackey

In no particular order

Beethoven
Bach
Rachmaninov
Grieg
Chopin

All time favorite if I had to have just one... Probably Grieg.

1 Mozart
2 Pachelbel
3 Beethoven
4 Tchaikovsky
5 Chopin

-Mozart
-Bernstein
-Chopin
-Puccini
-Shoenberg
:clap:

Not in order of merit:

Beethoven
Debussy
Elgar
Mahler
Shostakovich

Bach!

And who would want to be without many of the others already listed?

Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, and Scriabin (late piano music, at least) are sadly under-rated. When I mentioned that Sibelius lived to a ripe old age but composed only during the first half of his life, a friend once said, "We're grateful." But isn't he now on the verge of a revival?

Just to add a few more unusual-- I'm inordinately fond of:

Charles Tournemire (precurser of Messiaen)
Frank Martin (a musical "anatomy of melancholy")
Herbert Howells
Kenneth Leighton

JS Bach no doubt!
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fredrich Chopin
Sergei Rachmaninoff (<3)
and I'm not sure about the fifth one.
Maybe Haydn.

Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Lady Goo Goo, I mean Gaga. No wait, Chopin.

1. Beethoven
2. Schubert
3. Vivaldi
4. J.S. Bach
5. Mozart

All but 1 are subject to change.

1. John Cage
2. J.S. Bach
3. Arnold Schoenberg
4. Edgard Varese
5. Karlheinz Stockhausen

Wow, finally someone who probably appreciates Stockhausen as much as I do.

Stravinski
Bartok
Wagner
Mozart
Beethoven

Lately I've been listening to Schubert's entire catalog. Such brilliance. It's hard to claim any renowned composers are underrated but Schubert may just be. If he only lived beyond his 31 years. The music he could have created. "The Trout" is my current go-to piece and even my 4 year old son is in love with it.

Serendade (Ständchen) is a nice composition by Schubert, too.

My favorites are

Burgmüller
Vivaldi
Bach
Händel
Loeillet

1. Beethoven
2. J.S. Bach
3. W.A. Mozart
4. Chopin
5. S. Joplin

Wow you people got good taste here

At this moment, Bach
Landini
Palestrina
Verdi
John Adams

Favourite composers top 5
 

Hi.
My favourite as of this moment:-
1.Beethoven
2.Mahler
3.Mozart
4.Bruckner
5.Shostakovich.

Not bad for starters!

1. Bach
2. Vivaldi
3. Beethoven
4. Edvard Grieg
5. Tchaikovski

did I say, that I hate Mozart?
His music is so uncreative and he relied so much on skill and playfullness,
instead of touching the people with something deep

I find it somewhat odd that you criticize Mozart for this, yet Tchaikovsky is in your top 5...
IMO, Mozart has a lot of material that I would describe as deep.

I'm not trying to tell you what to think, or that you should/must like Mozart it just seems a bit contradictory to me.

The thing about Mozart is that he is sitting on a throne, that so many musicians would earn to sit on a million times more than he does.

I didn't say that he is a bad musician or that there is absolutely no meaning in his music, but he is overrated times a zillion.

And yeah, I like Tchaikovsky. And I don't really see your point there :/
Mozart is Wiener Klassik(Vienna Classic?), while Tchaikovsky takes his elements from Russian Romantic Classic... :/ This is like comparing a banana to an avocado