I have two favourite composer - Debussy and Chopin. =)

Who are YOUR favourite composers? :think:

Copland, Oldfield and Yuki Kajiura. Copland is mainly for Appalachian Spring, and Oldfield because I love his minimalist pieces. As for Yuki Kajiura - the name's enough to justify ;)

Yuki Kajiura...
...
enough said ^_^

Hector Berlioz. (I *LOVE* big music!!! :punk: )

May God have mercy on your soul. Anyway, if you've read any of my posts, I love Handel and Mozart. The others that are right under them are Bach and Beethoven. Below them are Faure, Schubert, Debussy, Chopin, et cetra. Berlioz is at the bottom. He uses bangies instead of talent. Look to Handel for "Big" music that still retains taste and decency.

Mozart and Uematsu. 'nuff said.

Chopin and Uematsu.

can't think of anymore :P

Originally posted by Alfonso de Sabio@Sep 22 2004, 03:49 AM
May God have mercy on your soul.


Berlioz is at the bottom. He uses bangies instead of talent.
Very doubtful...


"What is mere talent compared to genius?" - Johannes Brahms (?)
And besides, I happen to *like* bangies...*lots* and *LOTS* of bangies... :punk:

Edwin Posted on Sep 22 2004, 07:45 AM


"What is mere talent compared to genius?" - Johannes Brahms (?)


"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

1. Chopin
2. Rachmainoff
3. Bach
4. Beethoven
5. Berlioz (like his symphonie fantastique)
6. Wagner (almost all his operas are just fantastic)

Too many, but here are a few (With my favorite suite listed as well):

Holst (The Planets Suite)
Copland (Rodeo)
Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring)
John Williams (He just rocks. All his songs.)

that's just a few.

In a non-specific order:

Yuki Kajirua - .hack, Noir and Xenosaga, I think.
John Williams - StarWars
Cecilia Cheung - Chinese singer and music composer

My favourite composer is Weird Al Yankovic,
and yes he dose compose alot of his music

Woohoo, Weird Al rocks :D Glad to see there's other Copland fans around!

nobuo uematsu................hans zimmer.........and actually noir (dont get a big head about it) ^_^

edit- weird al yankovich..........wooo

:music: as i walk through the valley where i harvest my grain i take a look at my wife and realise she's very plain :music:

there are too many...
- yuki kajiura
- nobuo uematsu
- bach
- chopin
- bill douglas
- jim brickman
- yuko ohigashi
etc....

In no particular order:

- George Winston
- Joe Hisaishi
- Augustine Barrios Mangoré
- Turlough O'Carolan
- Yuki Kajiura
- Amadeus Mozart
- Brian Eno
- Conlon Nancarrow
- Koji Kondo
- Michael Hedges
- Yasunori Mitsuda
- Sarah Pobjoy
- Yoko Kanno
- Vince Gauraldi
- Kitaro
- Ichiko Hashimoto
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Allan Holdsworth

:lol:

Sorry Jujemu, I haven't had the chance to listen to George Winston yet . . ah, Koji Kondo *goes to play some Mario songs* . . . Sarah has a fan . . . Vince Gauraldi, the guy who did Peanuts/Snoopy?

Kitaro . . . that name rings a bell . . . I remember when I was young, I watched some Japanese guy playing on a bunch of instruments. I forget the names of the songs, but I can still hum some of the tunes now *decides to reminisce and search for info*

My favourites: Mozart, Chopin, Jay Chou, Taku Iwasaki, Nobuo Uematsu.

...and Alphonse Nguyen! ^_^

Although I haven't heard any of his new comps. -_-

Yes! Vince composed most of the Peanuts' music. And yeah, that sounds like Kitaro - he specializes in the synthesizer. Did you see him perform live?

*blushes* . . check out my thread and/or the CMA thread, cause I don't know which of my songs you've heard yet.

Ah yes, that's what it was called, the synthesizer! This was way way back, like more than 10 years ago, I saw Kitaro either on a recording or on the tv.

Takemitsu, Debussy and Ravel

joe hisaishi only,
but he is not famous ,
i never saw his songs on concerts on youtube but where can i find some music or some videos of joe hisaishi?

i heard them only in animes from studio ghibli (the best .-) )

thanks!!!

i made a thread like this, but it died out :(

i have many favorites, but my particular favorite is kLuTz, AKA Gregory Pak @ http://klutz.vgmidi.com/

trust me, you'll love his music by just listening to one song :shifty:

I agree, Nobuo Uematsu (I think FFIIV music is wonderful, esp. Advent: One Winged Angel and Sarutabaruta)
also:
Johannes Brahms - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Opus 120 no 2
Camille Saint-Saëns
Shirou Sagisu (Think End of Evangelion and Bleach OST's)

-Nobuo Uematsu (Of course^_^ My playlist is made up mostly of FFVII/FFX music)
-John Williams(Star Wars! I have almost all of the SW movie soundtracks)
-Antonio Vivaldi(My favorite baroque composer! I wrote an essay on him last year!)
-J.S. Bach(My second favorite baroque composer! I love baroque music)
-Gustav Holst(His stuff grows on you! I went to a Planets concert recently^_^ And my orchestra played St. Paul's Suite last year [that song is really catchy, especially the fourth movement{Finale: The Dargason}])

That's all I can think of right now...oh, I heard someone mention Copland, reminds me of a funny story. My orchestra played a movement of Rodeo one day (Hoedown, I think. WOO! HOEDOWN!!!!!), and my stand partner was crying and yelling "It's too hard! I can't do it!" And he thinks he's the best violinist in the world.

Uematsu, Mozart, and Faure are the only ones I can think of right off the top of my head.

-chopin
-strauss
-tchaicovsky
-paganini

Takemitsu, Debussy and Ravel

*Gasp* Liszt isn't up there Thorny?

Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. But Beethoven is my top favorite, I always love playing anything by him. As for non-classical composers, I love Asakura Noriyuki, Taku Iwasaki, and John Williams.

Asakura Noriyuki composed all of the Rurouni Kenshin music except for the music of the OVA, Trust and Betrayal (Tsukiokuhen), which was done by Taku Iwasaki. I was so impressed by the compositions that the music has ruined other anime OSTs for me and I have very high expectations now if I am going to buy a CD; .hack is the only other thing that has come close.

Though I play classical compositions for my piano study, I prefer modern composers.

My number 1# Composers (sharing the same position, I can't give one more credit that the other) :shifty: :P :

Yoko Kanno (Ghost in the Shell compositions)
Shiro Sagisu
Toshiro Masuda

Chopin~
Mozart
Bach
Beethoven
and Tchaikovsky~

Oh and Lists arg I can't spell~

Mmhm... Liszt.

Chopin, Debussy, also. Mozart is after, then Beethoven.

Yoko Kanno, especially because of Bebop. 'Nuff said.

Frédéric Chopin. I obtained a large volume of his work; most of which I can play well, except for his famous Minute Waltz in all it's proper tempo and glory. But of all things, it's missing his Fantasie Impromptu. Pffsh. =[
And Phillip Glass; for his work in the documentary, "The Fog of War". I know. I'm such a tard, the only thing I could think of during the film was how good the soundtrack was. You'd think I'd care more about the content in a film such as that, but no.

God, Debussy's impressionestic style is really eating at me lately. It's beginning to become so natural and beautiful in all it's complexities.

Expect some records of my playings of his preludes book one in a bit.

Grieg...
Beethoven...
Uematsu Nobuo...
Rachmaninoff (<-- I'm not sure how you spell his name XD)

Uh... I don't know really XD

My favorite composere would be Mozart and Me :)

Koji kondo. :P Because I'm a zelda fanboy. =P And the fact that I have all his songs on my iPod....^^;

My all time favorite is Bach, my favorite piece being his Chaconne [as my username suggests]. I also love Vivaldi, Sarasate, Beethoven, and Mozart.

Lizst
Yiruma
Koji Kondo
Al(phonse Nguyen)
Mozart
Bach

There's more, but I'll put them... someday.

New Top 5 list. Too bad Tchaikovsky is knocked down to 6. Lol.

1. Beethoven
2. Chopin
3. Liszt
4. Debussy
5. Rachmaninoff

It WAS (in order)

Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin.

No more!

Kabalevsky is soo good! My teacher is introducing me to his works, and so far its the only composer I like she has ever shown me. Soo this is based on greatness

1 - Ravel/Debussy [they are just SO good!]
2 - Liszt
3 - Chopin
4 - Joe man :D
5 - Kabalevsky
6 - Beethoven deserves #6

1) Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky
2) Ludwig van Beethoven
3) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4) Scott Joplin
5) Kuji Kundo (... meh...)

Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky is my favourite. I like Debussy, Satie and Chopin too.

I forgot Koji Kondo...I love the LoZ: OOT soundtrack...

I found a new one to add to my list: John Rutter! Everyone should try to listen to his Requiem. It's DELICIOUS.

Rimsky-Korsakov
Debussy
Ravel


:P I also add Stravinsky to my list, because of The Rite of Spring.

I have so many, but my very favorites are Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Absolute musical geniuses to say the least.

I will say, at this moment, Koji Kondo seems to be my most 'favored' composer since I am into his music for a while (as I'm playing Twlight Princess).

Still -

Beethoven
Chopin
Liszt
Debussy
Rachmaninoff

Are always my top 5. :sweat:

Oh, I don't even need to think about this one. =P

KOJI KONDO RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will say, at this moment, Koji Kondo seems to be my most 'favored' composer since I am into his music for a while (as I'm playing Twlight Princess).

Still -

Beethoven
Chopin
Liszt
Debussy
Rachmaninoff

Are always my top 5. :sweat:

minus Beethoven thats same as me. yeah i like Beethoven but he's not a fave. 5th position would have to go to either Scriabin or Ravel

I have quite lot of favorites... I guess... (Just putting them up as they hit my head)
Yuki Kajiura
Nobuo Uematsu
Hikaru Nanase
Bach
Genin
Reichert
kukui
Tajiri Matsutaka
Suguru Matsutani
Mendelssohn
Handel

I think that's all of them

Ah, I'll name 'em. . .Not in any real particular order however :

Beethoven
Chopin
Liszt
Rachmaninoff
Debussy
Rimsky-Korsakov
Brahms
Mozkowsky
Ravel
Scriabin
Gershwin
Kondo
Mendelssohn
Godowsky (Chopin Etudes)

Motoi Sakuraba, mind behind some of tales series, star ocean, was part of wolf team, and many more, do'tn want to list them all

Ma props go out to [In no particular order]: Yoko Kanno, Joe Hisaishi, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakov, Debussy, Shiro Sagisu, Aaron Copland, Holst-Leidig, Leonard Bernstein (West Side yo!), Percy Aldridge Grainger, AND VACLAV NELHYBEL...

Well...for classical...Antonio Vivaldi

For anime/games/others , Motoi Sakuraba and Motoo Fujiwara - and Fujiwara gets his props from the couple of songs he gave to Tales of the Abyss and his compositions for the band, "Bump of Chicken".

Keiki Kobayashi, the legend.

This man can single-handedly reshape the world.

chopin
bach
williams
kanno
kajiura
bodenski

that's standard, i know..

Rachmaninoff
Edward Elgar
Ravel

Weird list. :heh:

^
I just saw on the net Ravel's works will enter public domain on January 1st, 2008.

Hmm..Favorite composer... There is no favorite for me, there are those that I like lots of their works and other that I like some or have no heard all of them. But I am very variable, I have no idea who to choice haha or which ones to put in a list.

Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Webern, Faure, Grieg (somewhat), and etc...

Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Debussy, Schumann. . .(Just to name a few.)

Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin, Grieg, John Williams, John Vesely (Secondhand Serenade), Josh Dies, NOT Finnissy, Ravel.

Messiaen!

im reading his 'Technique de mon langage musical' (sp?) and he is actually a genius.

i was listening to his 'Catalogue d'Oiseaux' the other day and got told to turn it off because it was giving my mum a headache =/ i have also heard someone describe the 'Vingt Regards' as random clusters.

shame how little most people appreciate his music really...

Don't forget Messiaen's Couleurs de la cité céleste, it's very intriguing too.

If only I had the chance to listen to more Messiaen stuff...

ooh.. i havent managed to get a recording of that yet. i need a CD of his orchestral works... i love the Turangalila Symphony! i would love to be able to play the ondes martenot, but arent they really rare?

In terms of Messiaen's music, I've heard his "Quatuor pour la fin du Temps" . (*searches for sheets*)

HANS ZIMMER DUDE!!!
michael nyman

In terms of Messiaen's music, I've heard his "Quatuor pour la fin du Temps" . (*searches for sheets*)

thats what he wrote in a concentration camp using the instrumentalists available isnt it?

that in itself is fantastic, without even having heard the music

thats what he wrote in a concentration camp using the instrumentalists available isnt it?

Yep. :)

Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko Shimomura.