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View Poll Results: Who is Your Favorite Composer?
Bach 13 20.63%
Beethoven 5 7.94%
Dvorak 1 1.59%
Handel 3 4.76%
Mozart 4 6.35%
Schubert 2 3.17%
Tchaikovsky 4 6.35%
John Williams (haha, kind of a joke) 7 11.11%
other (please specify in a post) 24 38.10%
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Old 07-19-2004, 12:42 PM   #1
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Classical: Favorite Composer?
Who is your favorite composer? Mine's a tie between Dvorak and Mozart, although now I tend to lean towards Mozart.

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Old 07-19-2004, 12:46 PM   #2
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I assume that we're talking about classical as a descriptor of compositional music rather then the Classical Era?

No matter, out of those selections, Mozart was a genious and I really have a greater respect of him and his music now that I've spent a good amount of time analizing his works. So, he's my choice.
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I assume that we're talking about classical as a descriptor of compositional music rather then the Classical Era?
Yes. Your favorite composer of classical music.
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Old 07-19-2004, 01:21 PM   #4
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I'm a big fan of Debussy. Especially La Mer and Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun, which I wrote a paper about.
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Old 07-19-2004, 04:26 PM   #5
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Right now, at least, mine's Chopin. I don't think there is a nocturne of his that I don't like, and most of them are playable for people at my level.
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Old 07-20-2004, 01:47 AM   #6
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I also lean towards Dvorak..and yes, Mozart was a genius....
but so was Sergei Rachmaninoff....I'm really big on Rachmaninoff...and Smetena. Berlioz is awesome too.
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Old 07-20-2004, 01:57 AM   #7
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my fav are bach and beethoven
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i can't pick between Greig, Ravel, and Mahler, NONE of which are mentioned in your poll.
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Old 07-21-2004, 12:34 PM   #10
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Berlioz is awesome too.
I remember listening to "Symphonie fantastique" for the first time in Music Lit last fall. Very strange, but cool piece.
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Old 09-18-2004, 04:13 AM   #11
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you didnt mention him in your poll. he is a genius. i love the four seasons
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Old 09-18-2004, 12:54 PM   #12
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Who is your favorite composer?
Hmm... mine would have to be... Lennon/McCartney.

Oh, you meant classical?

Then Matteo Carcassi.
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I remember listening to "Symphonie fantastique" for the first time in Music Lit last fall. Very strange, but cool piece.
Did you ever learn the story behind that piece?

Berlioz went to see a production put on by an english playhouse(in france) and saw (her name is drawing a blank right now). Anyways she was an actor in the play (believe it was Hamlet). He fell in love with her and wrote the Symphonie fantastique. (An episode in the life of an artist). 3 years later they got married. The symphony was sort of a musical tale about their relationship (a few years before they even met) Part way through he takes some opium (hypotheticly speeking ) and she turns into a witch. It's quite amusing to follow the score. They got married and had a miserable marriage...kinda ironic no?
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And then in March to the Scaffold he gets his head chopped off, depicted by the the pizzacato doublebass just before the final chords.
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Mine would have to be Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, and Mahler. On the cello though, I enjoy playing Popper.
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