Our favorite classical composers

I've always seemed to liked the Russian late romantic composers and American early modern classical composers - Tchaikovsky and Risky-Korsokov come to mind for the former and Gershwin for the most part for the latter. I also just recently started discovering (French) Debussy's work and I like it, too.

If by classical you mean the Classical era, then hands down Bach.

If cinematic music counts as classical, at the age of 4 y/o I received a copy of Kingdom Hearts for the PS2, my first video game, and I was sucked into the franchise at a young age - needless to say, I was always, even to this date, a fan of the soundtrack for this series (I stopped playing the games themselves at like 16 y/o - I'd rather play the Witcher franchise, or other more mature games nowadays), but it's largely just nostalgia at play here (perhaps?). I've dived into the portfolio of Yoko Shimomura, the Japanese composer of the franchise, and honestly I'm impressed - she incorporates a lot of impressionism into her work, which contrasts the romanticism that is heavily associated with cinematic music quite well, and makes it feel more "classical," by nature. Another great "cinematic" composer I think is Sweden's Johan Söderqvist, who did Battlefield 1's soundtrack (which is like the most cinematic shooter game ever made, imo), although he's not reall "classical" per se, just good at composing a cinematic score.