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Dorsalia 
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 Topic: Top-ten favourite composers
Posted: November 25 2009 at 06:29 |
I don't usually do these kind of things, but escapism can be a good thing.
My top ten favourite composers (whose names I know) are:
Arvo Pärt
J.S. Bach
Franz Schubert
Ludwig Van
Henryk Górecki
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Antonín Dvořák
Henry Purcell
Leo Brouwer
Daniel Gildenlöw 
I'm not saying I'm an expert, but these are the names that come to mind. I'm definitely most familiar with J.S. Bach and Arvo Pärt.
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Posted: November 25 2009 at 07:21 |
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Dmitri Shostakovich
J. S. Bach
Arvo Pärt
Erik Satie
Gustav Mahler
Oliver Messiaen
Alexander Scriabin
Igor Stravinsky
Giacinto Scelsi
Sergei Rachmaninoff
or something like that.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: November 25 2009 at 08:19 |
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Edvard Grieg
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ludwig van Beethoven
Antonin Dvorak
Johann Sebastian Bach
Robert Schumann
Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikowsky
Aram Khachaturian
Alexander Borodin
George Gershwin
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: November 25 2009 at 13:36 |
My thoughts on this have been changing a bit recently.
1. Charles Ives 2. Steve Reich 3. Philip Glass 4. J.S. Bach 5. Gyorgi Ligeti 6. John Cage 7. Harry Partch 8. Pytor Tchaikovsky 9. Karlheinz Stockhausen 10. Domenico Scarlatti
Edited by Equality 7-2521 - December 21 2009 at 18:30
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: November 25 2009 at 15:16 |
1. Vaughan Williams
2. Beethoven
3. Mahler
4. JS Bach
5. Rachmaninov
6. Shostakovich
7. Tchaikovsky
8. Prokofiev
9. Holst
10. Glass
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Haiku
Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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The Quiet One
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Posted: November 25 2009 at 19:08 |
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Posted: November 25 2009 at 20:10 |
1. Igor Stravinsky
2. J.S. Bach
3. Philip Glass
4. Fredric Chopin
5. Ludwig Van Beethoven
6. Dimitri Chostakovich
7. Sergei Rachmaninov
8. Franz Liszt
9. Franz Schubert
10. Carl Orff
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lucas
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 02:30 |
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How strange that W. A. Mozart is not in any of the top ten listed  Ever heard the monumental requiem (directed by Hogwood with Emma Kirkby among others) ?
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prog4evr
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 05:35 |
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Rachmaninov and Brahms - foreshadowing the musical passion of the best early prog (pre-1980s)...
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mystic fred
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 05:49 |
Beethoven
Sibelius
Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tchaikovsky
Mozart
Antonin Dvorak
Schubert
Richard Strauss
Stravinsky
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paganinio
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 08:50 |
some of my recent favorites
Mark Hollis (wrote all of Laughing Stock) Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom songwriter) Jari Mäenpää (wrote all of Wintersun, an album that helped save my life) RZA (all-time favorite hip hop composer, Wu-Tang chief producer, not sure whether it's him that wrote all the music. I mean, they have NINE members, why should he do all the work?)
It always amazes me how ONE guy is able to write a band's entire discography. Well, it's not that amazing, since I'm also the only songwriter in my band.
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paganinio
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 08:52 |
some of my recent favorites
Mark Hollis (wrote all of Laughing Stock) Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom songwriter) Jari Mäenpää (wrote all of Wintersun, an album that helped save my life) RZA (all-time favorite hip hop composer, Wu-Tang chief producer, not sure whether it's him that wrote all the music. I mean, they have NINE members, why should he do all the work?)
It always amazes me how ONE guy is able to write a band's entire discography. Well, it's not that amazing, since I'm also the only songwriter in my band.
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 11:11 |
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Bartok
Copland
Erm..the guy who wrote A Faust Symphony (Liszt ?)
Ginastera
Mussorgsky
Stravinsky
Janacek
Holst
What should be transparent from the list, is that without the requisite prod from ELP, I would never have heard any of the foregoing.
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The Truth
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 11:18 |
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Does anybody here know Penderecki?
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Dorsalia
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 13:00 |
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Yep. I'll stick with Bach though xD
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Dorsalia
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 13:03 |
 lucas wrote:
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How strange that W. A. Mozart is not in any of the top ten listed Ever heard the monumental requiem (directed by Hogwood with Emma Kirkby among others) ?
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I enjoy a lot of Mozart's music, but truth be told It's not something I ever really get the urge to listen to. Maybe his music sounds too "classical" to me. I'm more of a Baroque and Renaissance man on the whole.
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Posted: November 26 2009 at 13:21 |
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Rachmaninoff
Chopin
Ravel
Beethoven
Glass
Grieg
Vivaldi
Tchaikovsky
Prokofiev
Stravinsky
Brahms
I love Rachmaninoff though.
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halabalushindigus
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Posted: November 28 2009 at 00:50 |
Um, I can spell composer
Steve Hackett
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Jon89
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Posted: November 28 2009 at 01:32 |
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Jon89
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Posted: November 28 2009 at 01:36 |
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Anderson/Squire/Howe/Wakeman/White
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