... in no particular order
 

Hmmm... I guess this works for me:

Prokofiev
Debussy
Brahms
Beethoven
Bartok

It's a tough one to answer. I may put up another five when I'm up to it :laughing:

Top 5 Classical Composers are :-
Ravel
Antonio Vivaldi
Alkan
Debussy.
Tchaikovsky

1 Beethoven
2 Mozart
3 Tchaikovsky
4 Chopin
5 Bach
In my memory, I began to know about Beethoven when I was a schoolchild. There was a lesson about Beethoven's story.

Wow. This is going to be hard. Here goes... most likely in this order... maybe...
(With some of my favorite pieces by them)

1. Chopin - Ballade No. 3, Op. 47 in A flat major
2. Rachmaninoff - Prelude Op. 23 No. 7 in C minor
3. Ravel - Sonatine in F sharp minor
4. Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor
5. Hmm... maybe... Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Gosh that was hard. At least figuring out where to put Chopin was easy...

My favorite five classical composers
 

Camille Saint Saens
Ludwig van Beethoven
Gustav Mahler
Antonio Vivaldi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amade Mozart
Georg Philipp Telemann
Claude Debussy
Caroline Shaw
J.S. Bach

1. Schubert
2. Grieg
3. Tchaikovsky
4. Prokofiev
5. Dvorak
(though Glazunov, Holst, Rachmaninov, Svendsen, and Smetana also crossed my mind)

Mozart
Strauss II
Vivaldi

Loeillet, cool!

Mozart(Serenade of Winds)
JSB
Wagner(Tannhäuser)
Vivaldi
Albinoni

Mozart,
Hydn
Debussy
Ravel
K. Weill
(and a lot of others)

Xenakis
Webern
Kagel
Messiaen
Nancarrow
Partch
Zorn
Bartok
Varese

Korndorf
Mahler
Stockhausen
Gesualdo
Lassus
Ockeghem
Scelsi
Schoenberg
Luigi Russolo
Tishchenko
Ives
Wagner
Feldman
Brahms
Stravinsky
Gurdjieff
Berlioz
Ligeti
Cage
Boulez
JS Bach
Palestrina
Badalamenti
Goldsmith
Perotin
Monteverdi
Schnittke
Lutoslawski
Scriabin
Debussy
Ravel
Jacob Druckman
Kate Soper
Sorabji
Julián Carrillo
Boulez
Liszt
Zappa
Rautavaara
Maja Osojnik
Henze
Faure
Grisey
Cowell
(Lou) Harrison
Murail
Krenek
Claude Vivier
Kurtág

Top 5 Bestest Awesome Best
 

Mike
Ike
Flip
Flop
and Jimmy as The Beever

(in no specific order)

Beethoven
Mozart
John Cage
Chopin
Tchaikovsky

Beethoven (everything)
Mozart (piano concertos, late symphonies, operas, late quartets)
Wagner (DER RING)
Shostakovich (symphonies, quartets)
Brahms (symphonies, violin concerto)

No specific order
Mozart
Beethoven
Debussy
Haydn
Vivaldi

Dvorak

No Robert Schumann? WOW!

toru takemitsu (absolute favorite, unparalleled)
morton feldman
messiaen
mahler
luigi nono

Arvo Pärt (salve regina).

Mozart (kyrie, mass in c minor).

Beethoven (the kreutzer).

Debussy (reverie).

Satie (the gnossiennes).

In no order, and subject to change at any time.

Vivaldi
Mozart
Wagner
Shostakovich
Tchaikovsky

J.S.Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Giovanni Gabrieli
Dvorak

Chopin
Debussy
Tchaikovsky
Mozart
Beethoven

Mozart
Beethoven
Rachmaninov
Sibelius
Tchaikowsky

When I was in my late teens / early twenties I liked Sibelius a lot. I still do but it’s been a while.

With Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov do you know any particular compositions that blend the romantic side with a more impressionistic feel?


Recently I was listening to Chopin and I was struck by the music being more ethereal (and better) than I remember.

Palestrina
Buxtehude
Bach
Mozart
Chopin

(Would Harry Partch or Moondog count as classical?) :laughing:

Certainly. Why not?

Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahms
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Sergei Prokofiev
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach hasn't moved into the holy 5 yet. Ha

Difficult to name only five, I'm more into piano music, it's the intrument I play, so I'd choose:
1. Franz Liszt
2. Frédéric Chopin
3. Ludwig Van Beethoven
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5. Antonio Vivaldi

I can’t think of any piano compositions by Vivaldi off the top of my head. Can you refresh my mind for me?

What I wanted to say is that I'm more into piano classical music than with other instruments, but I didn't say I ONLY listen to piano music. That's why the first two ones are more known for the piano contributions and aren't considered as the best composers.

What I meant is that because I'm more into piano music I chose Liszt and Chopin as my favourite ones. They're considered as "excellent pianists", while Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Vivaldi are "excellent composers". I didn't say I was only going to choose pianists. Don't know if I wrote everything correctly.

Dear Merlin, Schoenberg is amazing...

No certain order, but here I go:

1. Schoenberg
2. Ysaye
3. Prokofiev
4. Vieuxtemps
5. Wieniawski

I'd like to add that I love Lalo's Symphony and Sibelius's Violin Concerto among many, many other pieces... And I particularly enjoy the taste of tortured souls in music, so that may play a part in the above choices.

From favorite to least favorite:

1. Chopin
2. Tchaikovsky
3. Mozart
4. Saint Saens
5. Beethoven

These are my 5 favorite classical music composers.

Chopin.
Mozart.
Debussy.
4.Bach (J.S)
5.Beethoven

A что это за имя, aрсем, если не секрет? на мое ухо, чем-то армянским звенит, хотя фамилия у вас вовсе не армянская. в любом случае, приветствую!

1 Romitelli
2. Ligeti
3. Bach
4. Stravinsky
5. Shostakovich

I've changed my mind:
5. Richard Wagner
4. Frédéric Chopin
3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2. Ludwig Van Beethoven

In no particular order:

Prokofiev
Mahler
Beethoven
Mozart
Tchaikovsky

At the very top of my list J S Bach.

Then in no particular order :-
Arvo Part
Durufle
Hugo Wolf
Schumann
Schubert
Beethoven
Bartok
Mozart
Handel
Ravel
Mahler. - - - - the list could go on & on . . . and OK that’s more than 5 but reducing favourites to so small a number is for me an impossible process.
Actually I’m more interested in people’s pet hates in classical music. On my part there’s a huge portion of English symphonic rubbish written in the late 18 the century. I’d add most of Philp Glass to the list too.