Favorite Classical Composer

Favorite Composer: Chopin, I love the guy, total beautiful music... genius.

Piece from Composer: Waltzes. B minor 69/2, Grand Valse ...Sonata #2 all movements, polonaise in Ab

Played anything by favorite composer? Waltzes. Small preludes.

Bethoven is cool. He is deaf and can still right music.He rox!

Favorite Composer: Händel, I've learned to know him through the movie Amadeus, a fictive story on the battle between Mozart and Handel. In retrospect he's seen as a b-composer in the shadow of Mozart. But I think his weakness is his strenght (his 'light')touch. Vivaldi is also there.

Piece from Composer:Sonata B in D minor (Händel) The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

Played anything by favorite composer? Not yet.

Er... The "fight" in Amadeus is between Mozart and Salieri... Haendel died when Mozart was three years old, so it's impossible they had any kind of battle.

Personally, my favourite composer changes with my mood. Sometimes it's Bach, sometimes Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert or Prokofiev, depending if I'm feeling quiet, hapy, sad, or depressed. I've played works of all these.

Favorite Composer: Gustav Holst. Such a genius...

Piece from Composer: EVERYTHING. But I love all of The Planets, and Second Suite is my favorite of his two Suites

Played anything by favorite composer? I've played both Second Suite and First Suite. Second Suite with my high school band, First Suite in an honor band. When I saw we played First Suite for the honor band... I think my heart sped up a lot. It was so amazingly epic...

Favorite Composer: Either Chopin or Vivaldi

piece: From Chopin: Nocturne Op 9 No. 2 (I know I love it because i played it for a month like 4 hours a day and i still love it :D) and From Vivaldi: Winter from his Four Seasons

i've played a lot from both since I play piano and violin. For the Nocturne, that was the piece i used for a piano test that convinced my mom to let me quit piano :D. I got a 96 on the test :D

Either Vivaldi, Chopin or Bach.
Their music is relaxing (for me, I don't know if you feel the same) and makes me feel comfortable and better when I'm about to explode.:rockon:

Right now my favourite composer is John Rutter. I also love his choir, the Cambridge Singers. My second favourite is Vivaldi. I love the Gloria, the Dixit Dominus RV 594, In furore and some arias from his operas. I'm not an opera fan, I tend to get bored, but I do love to listen to some arias. For example, Sposa son disprezzata from Bajazet, Dov'e la figlia, Nel profrondo, Agitata da due venti from La Griselda and others.
I also like Mozart, I am currently singing a lieder called An Chloe, lovely. I love the Requiem and the Coronation Mass. His canons are also very funny. Vado ma dove is also lovely, I wish I could sing it some day.

I love Vivaldi, because his music is full of patterns, and I like to think logically.

I love Vivaldi, because his music is full of patterns, and I like to think logically.

I love Vivaldi too. Lots of people only know The four seasons, which is a great work, I love it, but there are so many wonderfull compositions by him, his music is so energetic, so full of life, it's so cheering.

Here are some links of other Vivaldi compositions:

Vivaldi - Bajazet - Sposa son disprezzata - Cecilia Bartoli (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N3G6rXpVlQ)

Vivaldi - L'olimpiade - Siam navi all'onde algenti - Cecilia Bartoli (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep987vSTsVc)

Vivaldi - Orlando Furioso - Nel profondo - P. Jaroussky & MN Lumieux (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnLM2QhCPPs)

Beethoven. He really was a musical genius, especially for composing Ode to Joy, his masterpiece, after he was deaf. He was the one who started the Romantic period, which happens to be my favorite era. I heard his music playing really loudly one time and was so moved, for lack of a better word. I don't think I've ever felt that same way when listening to some other piece of music.

Chopin is also a favorite :D

Favourite Composer: Beethoven :tu:
Favourite Composition: 9th Symphony - EPIC.

Beethoven. He really was a musical genius, especially for composing Ode to Joy, his masterpiece, after he was deaf. He was the one who started the Romantic period, which happens to be my favorite era. I heard his music playing really loudly one time and was so moved, for lack of a better word. I don't think I've ever felt that same way when listening to some other piece of music.

Chopin is also a favorite :D
I am also a great fan of composer Beethoven. He is really a great composer.

I feel compelled to mention most of the composers mentioned in this thread, including Handel, Chopin, Vivaldi, and Bach, among others, are not "classical composers." None of those were even alive during the classical period except for Handel (towards the end of his life) and Chopin (in his early schooling years).

Anyway, if we're talking about the periods during which all of those lived, then I'll break mine into categories.

Baroque period (second favorite): Bach. Vivaldi, Pachelbel get honorary mention.

Classical period (least favorite): Beethoven. And he legitimately is pretty much the only composer from that period I universally like. A few of Mozart's pieces were ok but in general he's overrated.

Romantic period (favorite): Smetana, solely for The Moldau, the most glorious piece of music ever written. Liszt, Tchaikovsky get honorary mention.

My favourite composers are Lully, Rameau and Couperin. Their music has lots of harpsichord, which is my favourite instrument. I also like really like Vivaldi, he's the first composer I really fell in love with.

I feel compelled to mention most of the composers mentioned in this thread, including Handel, Chopin, Vivaldi, and Bach, among others, are not "classical composers." None of those were even alive during the classical period except for Handel (towards the end of his life) and Chopin (in his early schooling years).


Whoever started the thread was probably using the term "classical" to refer to a nonspecific genre rather than a specific chronological period on the historical spectrum of music. I've always thought of baroque, romantic, contemporary, etc. -type music as being subgenres and I'm guessing the poser of this original question was thinking along the same lines.

I like mozart and beethoven

Bach for me.

Other favourites include: Dvorak, Handel, Brahms, Chopin and Vivaldi.

I feel compelled to mention most of the composers mentioned in this thread, including Handel, Chopin, Vivaldi, and Bach, among others, are not "classical composers." None of those were even alive during the classical period except for Handel (towards the end of his life) and Chopin (in his early schooling years).



I think the term 'classical' is used here in the colloquial sense: music between XVIIth and XXth century, of that style that's usually heard in theatres and concert houses.

Classical period (least favorite): Beethoven.

If you allow me to get punctillious(:evil: ), I would say that, though Beethoven lived indeed in the classical period, he virtually invented Romanticism. Well, I know that the word invent is excessive, but there's a clear difference of spirit and style between his early and late works; just compare the Fugue quartet to his early piano sonatas, for instance. After all, Schubert is considered fully Romantic, and died just one year later.

Beethoven is clearly one of my favourite composers, and certainly one of the most interesting.

Frédéric Chopin and Claude Debussy.
My favourite piece definitely has to be Chopin's "Ballade No 1". A piece that, sadly, I probably never will be able to play on the piano...
I can play loads of Chopin and Debussy stuff, but that piece kills me.

I've always called Mozart my favorite, though Beethoven's 9th Symphony is absolutely amazing when heard played live. Rachmaninoff is great, too. His Prelude in C Sharp Minor is one of my favorites.

i love Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition!

my favorites are Gustav Holst, Beethoven, Camille Saint Saens,bach and Weber i love them all