Classical composers you hate.

I have to agree with you on Strauss. Can't stand his music either 

Verdi is another composer that I can't stand and his music irritates me almost as much as Strauss'.

I've also never really liked Mozart's works (with some exceptions). The man had an absolutely huge amount of talent, which is certainly evident in his compositions, yet his music lacks depth. I'm convinced that he could have composed much more interesting and emotional works if he wouldn't have been so dependent on wealthy patrons, who often demanded accessible and/or dancable compositions.

And Wagner lastly, is just too bombastic for my tastes. I admire him for his musical innovations (not his personality ), but nothing more than that.



Edited by Zebedee - August 08 2010 at 16:21

I don't hate any.

I pretty much love them all (Johann Strauss to a lower degree though...). Baroque, romantics, nationalists, classics, serialists, etc, etc... I hate many many many prog rock and metal bands and musicians though. 

JLocke wrote: Well, I really enjoy Mozart a lot. However, I'm not sure if he's the complete genius everyone cracks him up to be. He's damn good, but I think Beethoven was better.

I am not fond of his divertimenti, but I enjoy pretty much everything else I was exposed to.
Beethoven is more of a pre-romantic so not very comparable to the classicism of Mozart.

Slartibartfast wrote: I can't say I hate any either.  More a matter of indifference.

This

I hate Vivaldi. Seriously, what a hack. Speaking of hacks, Puccini is nothing more than a populits writing lame music. I'm also not too fond of Brahms.

thellama73 wrote: JLocke wrote: What's your novel about, llama? no need to be snarky.

Hate would be saying too much, but I don't care much about Anton Bruckner. His music is going nowhere, in my opinion.
And Richard Wagner I only listen to once a year, during the Bayreuth festival, but then I really listen to him - the whole Ring and whatever else is broadcast on the radio (WDR 3 fortunately broadcasts a lot of the festival). But listening to all 16 hours of the Ring is like eating a fat goose - you can''t eat anything else after that for a while, so for the rest of the year I usually abstain from Wagner and only get the  odd snippet of him which is being aired on WDR 3 in their "Klassik Forum" or perhaps a live broadcast from the Metropolitan opera ((there is one about every three month, and sometimes they do a Wagner opera).

Jim Garten wrote: thellama73 wrote: I hate Vivaldi. Seriously, what a hack. Speaking of hacks, Puccini is nothing more than a populist writing lame music. Nothing like objective criticism is there? How about backing up statements like 'Vivaldi is a hack' and 'Puccini is nothing more than a populist writing lame music' then?

As regards romanticism, I don´t like Richard Wagner. His music is too bombastic, spectacular and, they say, anti-Semitic. Therefore he´s prohibited in Israel music halls.