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Topic: Some Classical Music Fan Here ?
Posted: May 20 2005 at 10:54

In my opinion Prog Rock is very close to Classical Music in many aspects, not only for re/arrengements or trascriptions, but much more in spirit.

Can you name your favourite Classical Composers and build up your personal top-ten ?

Here's mine !

1 - Mozart

2 - Beethoven

3 - Brahms

4 - Schubert

5 - Debussy

6 - Bartok

7 - Prokovfiev

8 - Stravinsky

9 - Hindemith

10 - Ravel

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 11:02

1- Bach

2- Mahler

3- Shostakovich

4- Rachmaninov

5- Purcell

6- Telemann

7- Messiaen

8- Schnittke

9- Bruckner

10- Strauss (Richard, of course)

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 11:06

nacho wrote:

1- Bach

2- Mahler

3- Shostakovich

4- Rachmaninov

5- Purcell

6- Telemann

7- Messiaen

8- Schnittke

9- Bruckner

10- Strauss (Richard, of course)

Good List Nacho... and the Bruckner's 9th simphony for me is one of the best and deeper ever

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 13:51

dear ita fan prog..
credo che la musica prog sia molto vicina alla classica!conosci" Concerto grosso per i New Trolls"??è uno dei miei album più consumati...ed è vicinerrimo(!)al prog..anzi!
spero proprio che tu lo conosca..ne vale la pena!

tòn d'apameibomenòs prosephè podas okus Akilleus

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 13:53

1. Bach (JS)

2. Brahms

3. Mahler

4. Shostakovich

5. Schubert

6. Dvorak

7. Debussy

8. Mendelssohn

9. Sibelius

10. Bruckner

Of course, there are countless others that should have been mentioned as well, including well-known names such as Mozart and Beethoven, but also less well-known composers such as Respighi, Takemitsu, Bax, Gubaidulina and so on.

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 14:36

I listen to a lot of classical, but mainly on the radio and my tastes are rather inclined towards contemporary classical such as Stockhausen, Ligeti, Webern, Cage or Xenakis.

A few months ago I also had the great pleasure of listening to a piece by the modern Icelandic composer Snorri Sigfus Birgisson, but unfortunately didn't catch the title !

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 14:41

Domitilla wrote:

dear ita fan prog..
credo che la musica prog sia molto vicina alla classica!conosci" Concerto grosso per i New Trolls"??è uno dei miei album più consumati...ed è vicinerrimo(!)al prog..anzi!
spero proprio che tu lo conosca..ne vale la pena!

Lo conosco, cara Domitilla... da quando avevo 14 anni !!!!!

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 14:49

Dragon Phoenix wrote:

1Of course, there are countless others that should have been mentioned as well, including well-known names such as Mozart and Beethoven, but also less well-known composers such as Respighi, Takemitsu, Bax, Gubaidulina and so on.

Among less known I can add Vaughan-Williams, Walton, Martinu, Malipiero and Duruflè

(...but Respighi is quite well known)

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 16:00

ita_prog_fan wrote:

Among less known I can add Vaughan-Williams, Walton, Martinu, Malipiero and Duruflè

(...but Respighi is quite well known)

I agree that Respighi is quite well known (btw, I was in Rome recently but I didn't see many pine trees), but you might be lapidated by some of the English members for considering Vaughan-Williams a less known composer, and the same could happen to you with Duruflè and French members... They are very well known as well!!!

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 16:50

It boils down to what is "well-known". The classics for the millions listener probably never heard of Respighi, since even his Roman trilogy does not get much attention in that field.

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 20:34

yes

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 23:24

I'm a fan.

Vavildi, Bach, And the rest are all good.

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Posted: May 21 2005 at 00:06

1. Stravinsky

2. Debussy

3. Bruckner

Those are my top 3 favourites. Almost anything else can follow, though I'm not a big Bach fan.

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Posted: May 21 2005 at 03:29

nacho wrote:

ita_prog_fan wrote:

Among less known I can add Vaughan-Williams, Walton, Martinu, Malipiero and Duruflè

(...but Respighi is quite well known)

You could be lapidated for the same reasons by some Russian or Japanese ...

I don't know how many pine trees are in Rome now... but surely you can still see a lot of fountains

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Posted: May 21 2005 at 08:47

Some composers less well-known even to real classical music lovers, and well worth checking out:

Sculthorpe (Australia), Lilburn (NZ), Sallinen and Rautavaara (Finland), Moeran (UK), Vasks (Latvia I think).

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Posted: May 21 2005 at 13:12

I'm with Manunkind...more interested in the modern classical/ experimental/ avant-garde composers. George Crumb, Steve Reich and La Monte Young especially.

But I also like several of the more classical orchestral composers, too. Mahler, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Stravinsky, Copland, et al

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Posted: May 22 2005 at 19:39

1. Grieg

2. Rachmaninow

3. Beethoven

4. Brahms

5. Debussy

6. Ravel

7. Schumann

8. Bach

9. Mozart

10. Sibelius

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Posted: May 22 2005 at 21:02

I've grown up on classical music. My favourite composer at the moment at is Oliver Messiaen. His compositions aren't very "catchy" like the famous symphonies by the well known composers.

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