I did this poll just out of curiousity!! My faverouite composer is Bach and I love Toccata and Fugue. When voting please tell me who your fave composer is, what your fave piece that he has composed and why!

Queen of Sheeba

I've just voted for Bach - mainly for his solo string writing, but also for his fantasic choral works. The St Matthew Passion is just fantastic. Elgar comes a very close 2nd though...

It has to be Beethoven, but its taken many years to realise just how profound and magical his music is.

Jo

Hi Queen of Sheeba

My favorite composer is Beethoven, my favorite piece hard to choose the Pastoral symphony is high on the list as is the emperor concerto. For piano and violin I love the sonata No 5 spring. Ive got the music for that and I make atempts to play the adagio on my violin from time to time. But I like he way he uses dynamics.

I also forgot Handel's The Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba is wondeful. Its a really fun piece to play. It gives you a happy feeling whyen you are feeling down!!!

Hi,

Mozart was/is absolutely outstanding in my view. I do feel Beethoven was more passionate but I also feel his music was all over the place where as Mozart's music was more 'controlled.'

Just my 2p worth!

Regards,
Craig

Its Beethoven for me also.

Mozart is an amazing composer but I feel he is more of a konformist (a rule follower.) He looks for the logic in his music where has Beethoven wrote off the cuff. Beethoven wrote whatever he felt in whatever key was appropriate. He was more creative and I feel Beethoven wrote with much more passion.

Regards,
Craig

I would have voted John Cage, but he is not in your list...

I voted Mozart, I love loads of his pieces!
Here a just a few: Sonata in A major
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Clarinet Concerto(K622)-my fave!!!
Piano concerto in D minor

But I also lovesome of Mendelssohn's works! The Hebrides Overture being one of them! Does anyone else love that piece?!!

Nat

hi!

well, i think that Chopin is the greatest composer of all time. you must have forgotted about him! his pieces are magnificent!

~Cleopatra~

I Beetoven!!!
Especially his No. 5 symphony, Moonlight sonata and for elise

Hard decision! Either Mozart, Bach or Beethoven (Especially his Emperor PIano Concerto). My mum likes Handel, his violin sonatas are so pretty! Has anybody been watching the programmes on Mozart on BBC. What did you make of them?

ping-lee

How can you all narrow it down?
For me, my absolute favourite composer has to be Debussy. His solo piano works are just sublime, and I can really relate to his music.
However, I really like Prokofiev also, and Fauré, and Beethoven, and Mozart, and Grieg, and........

See my problem?

QUOTE (ping-lee @ Apr 4 2004, 03:12 PM)

Has anybody been watching the programmes on Mozart on BBC. What did you make of them?

Yes ive been watching them and thought they were brill! see my post in the general discusson forum!

Nat

Dear Cleopatra,

"Chopin" - good call, yes he was an excellent composer.

Regards,
Craig

It has to be Bach - I find him so inventive and FULL of LIFE and energy.

Brahms is also a favourite - and I must give him a mention 'cos I don't think anyone has yet!

Maggie

QUOTE (maggiemay @ Apr 6 2004, 08:56 AM)

Brahms is also a favourite - and I must give him a mention 'cos I don't think anyone has yet!

I like Brahms too, I forgot to mention him!!!lol

Nat

can't exactly say he's the greatest composer of all time but i'm getting somewhat addicted to the piano works of John Ireland at the minute, fantastic music and the harmonies.... sigh. such a underrated composer

Pity my favourite composer isnt on the list! Claude Debussy is my favourite. You should try listening to Clair De Lune - written for piano ; Breath-taking

Has to be Bach...but afterall I am a harpsichordist.

I would say Beethoven out of the ones listed as I love his piano sonatas but my fave of all time in Chopin as I think his piano works are amazing!

Question should have been written as "who do you think is the greatest composer of all time" In my opinion it is Edgard Varese a real pioneer and great thinker.

umm... Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy...!

My fav changes all the time like every week I'm in the mood for a different composer, just now it is probably Schumann, I love the sonata No.1 Op.11, brill!.

QUOTE (Pianiste @ Apr 7 2004, 05:15 PM)

but my fave of all time in Chopin as I think his piano works are amazing!

of the ones listed, either bach or brahms

Undisputedly, Mozart.

He is the only person EVER to write, literally, a whole symphony in his head, then pen it all down. Hear the story about him going on holiday when he was 14, sees a piece performed in the Vatican.
It is never released on paper, only ever performed there. It's about 2 hours, but 12 mins keep on repeating. He goes home, writes it all down (7 part choir).

No-one has ever beaten that mental composing capacity like that!

(Jesus loves u)

What, no Mahler or Richard Strauss? Never mind - Mozart rules in any case. As to favourite pieces, he wrote so many incomparable works of genius that it's almost impossible to choose. I suppose, though, amongst my very favourites I'd include his:

Clarinet Concerto (good choice there, Nat!)
Flute and Harp Concerto
Horn Concertos (all four)
"Jupiter" Symphony (No 41 in C major)
Requiem
Le Nozze di Figaro.

mendolsen

i love haydn! but his name is not in the poll.

if not Mozart then it has to be EINAUDI!!! hehe

Mozart.

For me, it must be Mozart. He is such a Great composer. I like his Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 5 especially.

Debussy.
Beethoven seems boring / perhaps okay for people into 18/19C music. My CD player won't play anything before debussy.

For me, it must be Mozart. He's such a great composer! I like his Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 5 especially.

ohhhhh thats not fair i ain't on there lol

oh by the way i cant compose to save my life!!!!!

hee hee hee

I think Bach, Mozart and Beethoven are the greatest, and from there it's impossible to choose just one. That said, I voted for Beethoven on the poll.

QUOTE (fluty tute @ Feb 16 2005, 11:22 AM)

oh by the way i cant compose to save my life!!!!!

neither can i dont worry!!

Scott Joplin! Yeah...

But Chopin comes in 2nd...amazing solo piano pieces.

its a tough one to call, there are so many not on the lizst...

like Hindemith, John Tavener, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Holst, Wagner, Stravinsky, John Cage, John Williams, Philip Glass, Schoenberg.................................

some of the biggest names of twentieth music surely must go down on the shortlist for the greatest composer.

My favourite has to be Saint-Saëns. I love the piano concerto no.2 and the cello concerto No.1.

i dont actually know so i'll have to put Beethoven just because im playing a piece written by him for my grade 4 oboe

I voted for Bach and my fav tune is Tocatta and Fugue in D minor best tune ever!!!

Elgar without a doubt.

Any MODERN composers? Williams, Shore?

Never mind. "niffler" might become one - in time! (cough, not)

SHOSTAKOVICH! I can't get enough of him!

Well I could choose one of the composers on your poll but they're all biased - all classical and most about 2 centuries old!! I think Andrew Loyd Webber should win - or Scott Joplin. Theyve certainly kept me entertained over the passed few years

At the moment mine's Tchaikovsky but I change my fav. every second or so.
My fav. 'piece' is the Piano Concerto No.1 by Tchaikovsky, great melody and you've gotta love those grand chords at the beginning!!

i agree with hornplayer, there are so many great ones its hard to fit them all on, and remember them all!
love rachmaniov though! (vocalise)

It's not fair!!
I like chopin but he's not in the list!!

QUOTE (sutty_73 @ Apr 5 2004, 02:32 PM)

Dear Cleopatra, "Chopin" - good call, yes he was an excellent composer. Regards, Craig

it's not fair!!
he's not in the list!!