Classical music...

Yes imust say, Bach is proabbly the best composer ever. Mozart is my other favourite. However, a composer i admire perhaps more, is chopin. Its very hard for me to explain, but in a sense, i think chopin would survive as a writer today, of course, not with his piano pices, but i think his music fits contemporary structure the closest of all famous classical composers.


Bach, Mozart, Chopin are my favs.

Beethoven is very good but hes not as enginious in his music as those three, imo. same with vivaldi, and holt, some really excellent pieces, but overall, not as unique and musically talented as my fav three.

Id also put the beatles up there too hehe

dont have an era tho, i dont know enough about that sort of stuff.

 

What? You don't rate Beethoven's ninth up there with the greatest symphonies ever written?

What about Rachmaninov?

 

I just love classical music, music of the gods it it

my favorites are in order are:

Bach
Beethoven
Handel
Mozart
Tchaikousky
Wagner
Vivaldi
Choplin
Rossini

my favorite classical music soundtracks are "Fantasia, "2001, a space odyessy", "A Clockwork Orange"

my favorite film are John Williams, Wendy Carlos.

its all greart.

 

I prefer not to rate my taste of classical music by periods, but if I'd have to, I would say Classical, Romantic and Avant Garde, in no particular order.

I like a lot some of Beethoven's more obscure pieces, like the Piano Sonata # 29, and the Grande Fugue. In these pieces the old master really went beyond his boundaries into really groundbreaking (for the time) territory.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Modest Mussorgsky.

And in the twentieth century, there were some composers like Messiaen, Beria, Orff, Lachenmann and Stockhausen that really broke through the musical concepts that had been used for centuries to produce completely new forms of music. Some of it is hard to listen to, but I think its very important work.

 

I love classic music.... you should listen to it stoned. hah

 

MusicMan19,

I really like classical music although I'm far from an expert. I enjoy Wagner and Vivaldi. I do not play an instrument so I am always in awe at the artful collaboration-it always sounds like a masterpiece to me! I sing but would love to learn the piano someday.

You mentioned Satriani in an earlier post. I can't remember the name of the song I used to love-but it was a song I played over and over and over...I'm sure I drove my friends nuts...anyway it was a slower song...now I am wondering if I have it somewhere...I'll have to go look.

I love music too...can listen all day long... Heather

 

All classical, & renaissance and celtic.