Your top 5 Classical composers:
 

Here's my top 5 classical composers list (in order):

Vivaldi
Bach
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Strauss

Not in order:

Henry Purcell
Ludwig Van Beethoven
J. S. Bach
Jean Baptiste Loeillet
Anonymous [because some of my favorite Classical and pre-Classical music is without a known composer]

my top five (with fav pieces)
Mendelssohn (Violin Concerto)
Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto)
J.S. Bach (Violin Partita No3 in E Major (esp. the Prelude)
Haydn (Violin Concerto in G)
Francis Poulenc (Vallanelle for pipe and piano)

My fave composers with pieces I play:
1.Brahms: Rhapsody in G minor
2.Sergei Prokofiev
3.Chopin: Some Preludes
4.Debussy: La Plus Que Lente, Nocturne, etc.
5.Beethoven:several Sonatas

1. Bocherrini
2. Beethoven
3. Tchaikovsky
4. Mozart
5. Liszt

haha, right on

You can't forget Lizst

Wow...can I even pick just 5? How about 6...
In no particular order:

Samuel Barber
J.S. Bach
Manuel de Falla
Frederic Chopin
Gyorgy Ligeti
Bela Bartok

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

Alright then:

1. Alkan
2. Debussy
3. Prokofiev
4. Ravel
5. Bartok

In absolutely no order whatsoever.

In some vague order;

Tchaikovsky
Mozart
Beethoven
Debussy
Dvořák

At the moment:

Mozart
Stravinsky
Glass
Mahler
Holst

Finally somebody puts Prokofiev on a list!

Thank you

Brahms (Requiem, the symphonies, the concert pieces with vocal and chorus)

Beethoven (the symphonies, piano concertos and sonatas, the Masses)

Mahler (sym 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, The Song of the Earth)

Ives (Central Park, Unanswered question, Gong hook and ladder (sic) etc.)

Bach (sonatas, partitas and suites for violin and cello, piano preludes and fugues)

Sure I'll go with that from the hip.

1. Mozart
2. Bach
3. Irving Berlin
4. Toto
5. Beethoven

edit: Tchaikovsky was ***.
edit: That's censored? Odd, it's not an insult, just a fact.

Rachmaninoff
Shostakovich
Bach
Liszt
Bartok

Messiaen
Bartok
Mahler
Beethoven
Debussy

Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Antonín Dvořák
Sir Edward Elgar

1. Beethoven (Symphonies are phenomenal)
2. Chopin (Piano FTW)
3. Liszt (SHOW OFF)
4. Rachmaninov (Solely for his Piano Concerti)
5. Brahms (Symphonies and Piano Concerti)

1. Beethoven
2. Prokofiev
3. Saint-Saens
4. Shostakovich
5. Wagner

The first two are certain, the others may move around and drop out as time goes on.

Ravel

Tchaikovsky

Brahms

Saint -Saens

Rachmaninoff

and Chopin finishes just out of the top five.

Mussorgsky
Smetana
Debussy
Holst
Tartini/Saint-Saens

Probably in that order...

Mozart
Debussy
Bartók
Tchaikovsky
Burgmüller

in no particular order. And so many more! It was hard to pick just 5.

Top Three:
Faure
Mahler
Beethoven

Vivaldi is my favorite, the rest are in no particular order.

Vivaldi
Gershwin (he counts right?)
Chopin
Verdi
Tchaikovsky

Vivaldi is up there along with Mozart.
And burn me at the stake for herecy, but the classical work of alot of modern composers pushes up past composers like Chopin for me. Even full orchestrals by Nobuo Uemetsu, the music director of the Final Fantasy series. The music itself may not be up to par with the early classical composers, but when you put it in the context of the story and message it is trying to portray, you would struggle to find any artist that can compete.

In no particular order
Chopin (for being cool, and composing songs like winter wind and the ocean)
Mozart(some of the most memorable songs)
Tchaikovsky(badass bro)
Brahms
Beethoven (even the ice cream man plays his songs)

and if I could squeeze in a sixth bro, it would be dvorak, because his music is so dramatic.

Grieg
Tchaikovsky
Wagner
Debussy
Chopin

Gershwin counts for me ;)
Bach
Prokofiev
Bartok

(not in any order)

bach
maller
chopin
grieg
beethoven

Schoenberg
Mahler
Mendelssohn
Rimsky-Korsakov
Prokofiev

This is an interesting list. What do you recommend by Rimsky-Korsakov?

Scheherazade. I think it is one of his finest works.

I've heard this one mentioned before, I'll have to check it out.

Mine would have to be

Chopin (You mesmerism me with Fantaisie Impromtu and all the other greats that exited ur brain onto a page via quill)
Beethoven (symphony number 5... i kno i know i am a music student and I love him for his most famous work... eh :P)
Debussy!!!!!!!! (thanks for your La fille a cheveux de lin and the sunken cathedral)
Orff (Carmina Burana... best oratoria thus far)
Bach (well structured and thought out.. oh and thanks for 12 tone temprement)

So many others but these are all I can think of at 3.01 am :D haha!!

Bach
Tchaykovsky
Beethoven
Wagner
Strauss JR.

1. Paganini
2. Smetana
3. Tchaikovsky
4. Vivaldi
5. Rachmaninoff

1. Chopin
2. Beethoven
3. Vivaldi
4. Debussy
5. Mozart

Just curious, what is your favourite Tchaikovsky piece?

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