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> TOP THREE!, Greatest composers versus ones you like the most
ma non troppo
post Jul 10 2012, 08:12 PM
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Here is an interesting thing, I think! Name the three composers that you think, objectively (!) are the GREATEST. The name the three that you personally enjoy listening to or playing the most!

It's supposed to be fun, so please don't fall out.

The three GREATEST is my opinion: (not in any particular order)


J.S. Bach
Beethoven
Shostakovich


My three FAVOURITE to play or listen to: (again, not in any particular order)

J.S. Bach
Schubert
Chopin


Some may be upset by not including Mozart, but he would not be in my top three for either list. He may well be my number 4 in the "greatest" list.
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post Jul 11 2012, 06:46 AM
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post Jul 11 2012, 07:23 AM
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post Jul 11 2012, 09:07 AM
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QUOTE(ma non troppo @ Jul 10 2012, 09:12 PM) *

Here is an interesting thing, I think! Name the three composers that you think, objectively (!) are the GREATEST. The name the three that you personally enjoy listening to or playing the most!

It's supposed to be fun, so please don't fall out.

The three GREATEST is my opinion: (not in any particular order)


J.S. Bach
Beethoven
Shostakovich


My three FAVOURITE to play or listen to: (again, not in any particular order)

J.S. Bach
Schubert
Chopin


Some may be upset by not including Mozart, but he would not be in my top three for either list. He may well be my number 4 in the "greatest" list.



(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) My GREATEST three would be the same as yours ! Bach Beethoven and Shostakovich !

To play , exactly the same three !
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post Jul 11 2012, 10:23 AM
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The three I like to listen to the most are:

Vivaldi,
Mendelssohn
Elgar

No idea who the greatest are...
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post Jul 11 2012, 02:24 PM
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Three greatest:
Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms

Three favourite:
Rachmaninov
Prokofiev
Chopin
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post Jul 12 2012, 05:41 AM
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Greatest
Beethoven
Bach
Wagner
and Anon ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) )

Favourites to play
Clementi
Beethoven
Bach
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post Aug 8 2012, 11:37 PM
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Greatest

Beethoven
JS Bach
E Elgar/ J Haydn

Favourites

R Strauss
R Wagner
E Elgar
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post Aug 9 2012, 08:13 AM
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This is more difficult that I thought, and I guess depends on which instrument(s) you like playing/listening to.

Anyhow, here goes:

Greatest

JS Bach
Handel
Elgar

Favourites

Louis Vierne
Cesar Franck
Elgar


You might just notice a pattern emerging from my second list. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

To make this more interesting, if you were marooned on a desert island, and could only have music by one composer on your iPod or whatever, which composer would that be?

I would vote for Sir Edward Elgar.

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post Aug 9 2012, 09:41 AM
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Greatest:
J.S. Bach
Mozart (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
Mendelssohn / Dvorak (can't make my mind up between these two)

Ones I like to play the most:
Mozart (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
Chopin
Saint-Saens

I'm sure many will disagree with me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)
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post Aug 9 2012, 11:23 AM
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This is ridiculously difficult!

Greatest

Debussy
Schoenberg
Stravinsky


Favourites

Debussy
Takemitsu
Szymanowski
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post Aug 9 2012, 11:32 AM
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Yup v difficult...

Favourites Dvorak, Brahms, Schubert

Greatest Mozart, Bach, Haydn

(but Schubert is kind of tied with Mozart and Haydn in the favourites list ... and I really should have Stravinsky in the greatest... and how could I leave him out of favourites? and what about Tchaikovsky? and R Strauss, and Weber, - and - and - TOO DIFFICULT!)
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post Aug 10 2012, 09:39 AM
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QUOTE(VH2 @ Jul 11 2012, 07:46 AM) *

If I answered this then everyone would know who I am in real life!!!


Not that any of us had already guessed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Today's favourites:

Brahms, Elgar, Vaughan Williams

Greatest?

J S Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky
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post Aug 11 2012, 07:48 AM
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Greatest Three
Chopin
Mozart
J S Bach

Favourite to listen to
Chopin
Rachmaninov
Field

Favourite to play
Chopin
Debussy
Field
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post Aug 11 2012, 08:04 AM
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Greatest: Beethoven, Schubert and Shostakovich.

Favourites to listen to: Beethoven, Tallis, Walton.

Favourites to play: Beethoven, Field, Mendelssohn
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