What are your favourite classical composers? Do you listen to classical music?

[Roy]

I like classical music very much but in smaller doses.

My favourite composers are: Ravel, Chopin, Alkan (bonkers piano pieces), Satie, Honegger (I love his ominous 5th Symphony), Schubert, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gliere, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns, Rautavaari (20th century), Debussy, Rebecca Clark (her viola sonata is so underrated, it is 20th century already and she was a woman, maybe that's why). Medtner (nice piano sonatas), Schnittke are very underrated.

I love classical music featuring heavily instruments like viola, horns, cello, harp. I find violin overrated, too quickly can give me a bad headache.

I dislike out of famous composers or can't connect with: Mozart, Brahms, Bach. I don't care for Beethoven or Mahler.

[Alexandro]

This is going to be a long ass list, fair warning.

1. Neoclassical Stravinsky

2. Russian Stravinsky

3. Serial Stravinsky

4. Bach

5. Villa-Lobos

6. Albéniz

7. Chopin

8. Debussy

9. Liszt

10. Shostakovich

11. Piazzolla

12. Beethoven

13. Mozart

14. Schumann

15. Prokokiev

16. Ravel

17. Tárrega

18. Handel

19. Soler

20. Messiaen

21. Ligeti

22. Rachmaninov

23. Varèse

24. Scarlatti

25. Cassadó

26. Falla

27. Pablo de Sarasate

28. Granados

29. Mahler

30. Takemitsu

31. Wagner

32. Luis de Pablo

33. Torroba

34. Monteverdi

35. Brahms

36. Elgar

37. Mompou

38. Strauss

39. Vivaldi

40. Rodrigo

41. Webern

42. Verdi

43. Mussorgsky

44. Mangore

45. Sibelius

46. Reich

47. Cage

48. Dvorak

49. Mendelssohn

50. Tchaikovsky

I definitely forgot some, but I'm just going off the top of my head and Jesús bendito this is already a long fucking list

[Damião de Góis]

I listen to it sometimes. My favorites are:

From Portugal:

Carlos Paredes, Carlos Seixas

International:

Vivaldi, Bach, Debussy, Mozart, Pechelbel, Boccherini

[JamesBond007]

Baroque : Bach, Handel , Purcell, Vivaldi etc...

[Roy]

I listen to it sometimes. My favorites are:

From Portugal:

Carlos Paredes, Carlos Seixas

International:

Vivaldi, Bach, Debussy, Mozart, Pechelbel, Boccherini

I love Debussy!

[Salty Ears]

Franz Liszt, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Wagner, Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Borodin, Gustav Mahler

[Roy]

This is going to be a long ass list, fair warning.

1. Neoclassical Stravinsky

2. Russian Stravinsky

3. Serial Stravinsky

4. Bach

5. Villa-Lobos

6. Albéniz

7. Chopin

8. Debussy

9. Liszt

10. Shostakovich

11. Piazzolla

12. Beethoven

13. Mozart

14. Schumann

15. Prokokiev

16. Ravel

17. Tárrega

18. Handel

19. Soler

20. Messiaen

21. Ligeti

22. Rachmaninov

23. Varèse

24. Scarlatti

25. Cassadó

26. Falla

27. Pablo de Sarasate

28. Granados

29. Mahler

30. Takemitsu

31. Wagner

32. Luis de Pablo

33. Torroba

34. Monteverdi

35. Brahms

36. Elgar

37. Mompou

38. Strauss

39. Vivaldi

40. Rodrigo

41. Webern

42. Verdi

43. Mussorgsky

44. Mangore

45. Sibelius

46. Reich

47. Cage

48. Dvorak

49. Mendelssohn

50. Tchaikovsky

I definitely forgot some, but I'm just going off the top of my head and Jesús bendito this is already a long fucking list

I see that you love Stravinsky, lol. For me Prokofiev or Rachmaninoff are even better, both clearly in my top 10 of classical composers that I know of.


This piece for piano of Ravel is astonishing. Very beautiful but also tremendously difficult to play I read. The first part - Ondine is otherworldly.

[Alexandro]

I see that you love Stravinsky, lol. For me Prokofiev or Rachmaninoff are even better, both clearly in my top 10 of classical composers that I know of.


This piece for piano of Ravel is astonishing. Very beautiful but also tremendously difficult to play I read. The first part - Ondine is otherworldly.

Indeed, indeed. This is personally my favorite work of Ravel:



Oh, and with my ranking, don't take it as being sorted from most to least favorite, they are just listed in the order I remembered the composers while writing the post....I like them all pretty much equally .

[Alexandro]

Although, I am a Stravinsky fanboy, yessss.

[Roy]

Although, I am a Stravinsky fanboy, yessss.

Stravinsky + fanboy sounds like an unusual collocation for sure, huh.