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Poll Question: whos yer favorite?
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Bach... then Mozart (except operatic music, I just can't stand it).

Beethoven is overrated!  IMO, just calm down, will ya?...

Honorable mentions: Borodin, Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Haydn, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi & Wagner (although I hate opera, as I already pointed out).
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Originally posted by Damen Damen wrote:

Nicolo Paginini is definately one of my favorites. I can't believe he didn't get a single vote, his violin caprices are brilliant.

exactly! his music for solo violin is incredible

Here are a few others whose I highly appreciate the music: Katchaturian, Morton Feldman, Harry Partch...
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he was an excellent violinist (and guitarist; something very few people know. he wrote a lot of pieces for violin and guitar). his compositorial skills though are usually scoffed at by musicologists, though certainly his cappricios for violin are among the most difficult ones to play (along with de Sarasate and Isai)


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Nicolo Paginini is definately one of my favorites. I can't believe he didn't get a single vote, his violin caprices are brilliant.
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too many to listen them all; I'll just name a few:

Bach (everything, but especially his fugues and the Brandenburg concertos)
Mozart (mostly for his operas, especially "Don Giovanni", also his string quartets)
Beethoven (especially his symphonies and his compositions for piano; also his only violin concerto)
Debussy (especially his "Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune" and "La Mer")
Ravel (especially "La Valse" and "Ma Mère l'oye")
Mussorgski ("Pictures at an Exhibition", "A Night on Bald Mountain", "Boris Godunow")
Schönberg ("Verklärte Nacht")
Stravinski ((especially "Le Sacre du Printemps" and "Petruschka")
Berg ("Wozzeck", "Lulu")

the list could go on and on


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bach

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edgar varese

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Vivaldi and Dvorak of those listed, but I prefer Sibelius, Delius and Vaughan Williams to any of them.
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Wagner, because he had least votes from my favourite composers at the moment. Where are Anton Bruckner and Modest Musorgsky? 
yet you still have time!
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"Bach" is of course the name for a whole family of composers:

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer, organist) - the most well-known of the Bachs
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Composer, organist)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Composer, harpsichordist, pianist)
Johann Bernhard Bach (Composer, harpsichordist, organist)
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (Composer)
Johann Christian Bach (Composer)
Johann Ludwig Bach (Composer, violinist)
Johann Aegidus Bach (Organist, conductor)
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (Organist)

and my absolute favorite of the family:
P. D. Q. Bach


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jejeje Stravinsky is winning...mmm wonder why that might be...heheheheh ...I think just a few are gonna understand this joke

Anyway, my vote goes to the great Wolfgang Amadeus!
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My top picks:

1. Bach
2. Mozart
3. Chopin
4. Tchaikovsky
5. Vivaldi or Dvorak.
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Which Bach? Personally I go for Carl Philipp Emmanuel. I voted 'other' presuming Bach in question is Johann Sebastian
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The best thing I can play on the piano is Debussy's Claire de Lune....funny thing is that it still brings tears to my eyes when I listen to it. So I'm playing the piano and I'm crying...(good grief I'm such a GIRL sometimes!!)
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Both the romantic and Contemporary periods of classical music are my favorites.  I really enjoy Debussy's music especially.
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I like Chopin and Liszt the best. The Romantic composers were the proggers of the late 1800s. I also like Beethoven and Bach (the technical genius.)
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Definitely Bach, since he was certainly the most intellectually rigorous, and also one of the most emotionally involving, composers who has ever lived- definitely impressive considering how later composers viewed the Baroque stlye as emotionally underdeveloped.

 

Then Beethoven, also an absolute genius whole work enchants, resonants, and intrigues; and also embodies the absolute pinnacle of form. [Thanks also, Ludwig, for killing off the Classical era proper; God what a wasteland of empty and meaningless music!]

 

Then maybe Webern.  I think he's misunderstood. 

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   Vivaldi

 
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Chopin is the man!
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I enjoy playing works by Brahms on The Viola and violin.
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Pietro Locatelli !!!
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