Lewya 360 Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Favorite.. let's say the ones I discovered and loved so far! John Williams of course! Gustav Holst Gustav Mahler André Mathieu Sergei Rachmaninov Éric Satie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,220 Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Pierre Boulez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,524 Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 My favourite film composers are on record. Classical composers whose music that I love, are (among others) Holst, Bartók, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Lord, Emerson, Hackett, Stravinsky, Shostakovitch, Britten, and Rautavaara. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 In no order. Stravinsky Debussy Ravel Messaien Bartók Maxwell Davies Holst Feldman Millhaud Gershwin Elgar Varèse Vaughan Williams Ives Berio Walton Strauss Barber Corigliano Mahler Janáček Berg Prokofiev Copland Harris North Schnittke Martinu Honegger Britten Koechlin Ellington Birtwhistle Reich Revueltas Ginsatera Takemitsu Shostakovitch Scelsi Dutilleux Ligeti Scelsi Part Lutoslawski Adams Gorecki A bit too inclusive perhaps, but hey, I'm a lover of 20th century music! Top 10 lists be damned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Good lord! Let me think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Harrison is a great underappreciated choice, an important link in American music between Ives/Copland and the minimalists. Colorful, sensuous, and vast, expansive landscape music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Right now, it's Stravinsky. When you say Stravinsky, people always think The Rite Of Spring or The Firebird, but it's his 'miniatures' that really get to me. Sharkissimo and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 IN ORDER For film my favourites are... 1. John Williams 2. Howard Shore 3. Michael Giacchino 4. Thomas Newman 5. Jerry Goldsmith 6. Alan Menken and sometimes Hans Zimmer IN ORDER For classical my favourites are... 1. Sergei Prokofiev 2. Claude Debussy 3. Jean Sibelius 4. Igor Stravinsky 5. Aaron Copland 6. Dimitry Shostakovich 7. Leos Janacek 8. Erik Satie 9. George Gershwin 10. Bela Bartok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 For film: 1. John Williams 2. Howard Shore 3. Jerry Goldsmith 4. Clint Mansell 5. James Horner 6. Michael Kamen 7. Christopher Young 8. Hans Zimmer (at times) 9. Scott Glasgow 10. Leonard Rosenman Plenty of honorable mentions: Herrmann, Rozsa, and the other golden and silver age composers I don't know all that well; Beltrami, Newman, Goldenthal, Isham, and occasionally Giacchino and Harry Gregson-Williams today. Zuckerman and Wintory will probably join the list in time. Concert music somehow became a Top 24, and since the order doesn't really matter after about #8 or so, I didn't want to remove anyone. 1. Krzysztof Penderecki (all eras) 2. Richard Strauss 3. Toshio Hosokawa 4. Gerard Grisey 5. Witold Lutoslawski 6. Jean Sibelius 7. Helmut Lachenmann 8. Lepo Sumera 9. Dmitri Shostakovich 10. Pascal Dusapin 11. Thea Musgrave 12. George Crumb 13. Gustav Holst 14. Wojciech Kilar 15. Gustav Mahler 16. Toru Takemitsu 17. Marina Khorkova 18. Sergei Rachmaninov 19. Kaija Saariaho 20. Per Henrik Nordgren 21. Alan Hovhaness 22. Karol Szymanowski 23. Takuma Itoh 24. Matthias Pintscher So, yeah, lots, but my two #1 picks fit your request, and for 21st century specifically that would default to Hosokawa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Christ on a bike, how could I forget Kilar, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Dusapin, Grisey and Crumb? Nørgård is another stupid omission. I hate lists. They trigger my analysis paralysis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 And Murail? Where's Murail, Sharky??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,220 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Composers Who Died in the 20th Century A few days ago I tried to make a list of 22 of my favourite 20th Century composers for this thread, but I gave up when the shortlist reached about 80 names. Even if I could have whittled it down to 22 names which felt right at the time (I couldn't) the list would have been out of date by the next day. On the other hand, listing all of the candidates as equals doesn't convey that some of these composers have a better chance of making the cut, on a random day, than others. So I've gone for the following approach: ★★★★★ goes only to the two mandatory top picks. ★★★★ goes to composers who are shoe-ins for the list of 20 runners-up (i.e., composers who I think would be almost certain to make the list on any day) ★★★ indicates a strong contender for the remaining (dozen or so) spots on the runners-up list. ★★ composers are long shots for the runners-up list (i.e., they'd be in with a chance, albeit a slim one, depending on my mood, sobriety, etc., at the time of choosing). ★ indicates an honourable mention for composers that I really wanted to give a shout-out to, but don't think would have a chance of making the top 22 in view of all the competition. NO STARS doesn't (necessarily) mean that I actively dislike the composer in question; they're mainly included here to distinguish them from those composers that are unlisted because either (a) I unintentionally overlooked them or (b) I'm entirely unacquainted with them. It's a crude tool for a crude job. Here is the list: Yasushi Akutagawa ★ George Antheil ★★½ Blaž Arnič ★ Kurt Atterberg ★ Georges Auric ★½ Grażyna Bacewicz ★½ Edgar Bainton Tadeusz Baird ★½ Mily Balakirev Granville Bantock ★ Samuel Barber ½ Elsa Barraine ★ Jean Barraqué ★★★ Béla Bartók ★★★★½ Arnold Bax ★★½ Amy Beach Paul Ben-Haim ½ Alban Berg ★★★½ Lennox Berkeley ★ Leonard Bernstein ★ Arthur Bliss Ernest Bloch ½ Hakon Børresen Rutland Boughton Lily Boulanger ★★½ Nadia Boulanger ★ York Bowen Tomás Bretón Havergal Brian ★½ Frank Bridge Benjamin Britten ★★ Max Bruch ½ Alan Bush ½ Ferruccio Busoni ½ George Butterworth ½ John Cage ★ Cornelius Cardew ★★½ Alfredo Casella ★ Carlos Chávez ½ Halfdan Cleve ½ Eric Coates Aaron Copland ★★ John Corigliano ★★ Henry Cowell ★★ Frederic Hymen Cowen Ruth Crawford Seeger ★★ Luigi Dallapiccola ★★½ Claude Debussy ★★★★ Frederick Delius Edison Denisov ★★ Ernő Dohnányi ½ Franco Donatoni ★★ Cornelius Dopper ½ Felix Draeseke ½ Paul Dukas Thomas Dunhill Louis Durey ½ Antonín Dvořák ★★ Edward Elgar ★½ Maurice Emmanuel ½ George Enescu ½ Manuel de Falla ★ Ernest Farrar ½ Morton Feldman ★★ Gerald Finzi Benjamin Frankel ★ Luís de Freitas Branco ★ Robert Fuchs Lūcija Garūta ★ André Gedalge Roberto Gerhard ★½ Edward German ½ George Gershwin ★ Ruth Gipps ★ Alexander Glazunov ½ Reinhold Glière ★ Berthold Goldschmidt ★½ Eugene Goossens Percy Grainger ½ Edvard Grieg Gérard Grisey ★★★ Eivind Groven ★ Henry Kimball Hadley Ilmari Hannikainen ½ Howard Hanson ½ Roy Harris ★★★ Karl Amadeus Hartmann ★½ Hamilton Harty ½ Kunikiho Hashimoto ★ Siegmund von Hausegger Fumio Hayasaka ★★½ Victor Herbert Bernard Herrmann ★ Paul Hindemith ★★★ Finn Høffding ½ Vagn Holmboe ★★ Gustav Holst ★½ Arthur Honegger ★★½ Alan Hovhaness John Ireland Jānis Ivanovs ½ Charles Ives ★★★½ Leoš Janáček ★★★★ Joseph Jongen Vítěslava Kaprálová ★★ Aram Khachaturian ★½ Uuno Klami ★ Zoltán Kodály ★★ Charles Koechlin ★★★ Joonas Kokkonen ★★½ Erich Wolfgang Korngold ★ Hans Krása ★★½ Ernst Krenek ★ Eduard Künneke ½ Rued Langgaard ★★★ Lars-Erik Larsson ★ Sylvio Lazzari ★ Sigurd Lie ★ George Lloyd Witold Lutosławski ★★½ Hamish MacCunn ★ Bruno Maderna ★★★ Leevi Madetoja Gustav Mahler ★★★★★ Jean Martinon ★ Bohuslav Martinů ★★½ Toshiro Mayuzami ★★½ John Blackwood McEwen ★ Colin McPhee ½ Olivier Messaien ★★½ Darius Milhaud ★ Ernest John Moeran ★ Nikolai Myaskovsky ½ Conlon Nancarrow ★★★ Carl Nielsen ★★★ Ludolf Nielsen ½ Luigi Nono ★★★ Hisato Ohzawa ½ Carl Orff John Knowles Paine Andrzej Panufnik ★½ Eduard Patlayenko ★ Dora Pejačević ½ Allan Pettersson ★★ Ernest Pingoud ★ Lyubomir Pipkov ★ Walter Piston ½ Francis Poulenc ½ Sergei Prokofiev ★★★ Giacomo Puccini Sergei Rachmaninov ★½ Maurice Ravel ★★★★ Alan Rawsthorne ★½ Ottorino Respighi ★ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ★ Jean Rivier ½ Joaquin Rodrigo Albert Roussel ½ Ludomir Różycki ½ Edmund Rubbra ★ Carl Ruggles ★★½ Joseph Ryelandt Camille Saint-Saëns Giacinto Scelsi ★★★ Franz Xaver Scharwenka ★ Max von Schillings Franz Schmidt ★ Alfred Schnittke ★★ Arnold Schoenberg ★★★★ William Schuman ★★ Cyril Scott ★ Alexander Scriabin ★½ Roger Sessions ★★½ Giovanni Sgambati ★ Dmitri Shostakovich ★★½ Jean Sibelius ★★★½ Robert Simpson ★★★½ Ethel Smyth Charles Villiers Stanford Maximilian Steinberg ½ Richard Strauss ★½ Igor Stravinsky ★★★★½ Karol Szymanowski ★★ Germaine Tailleferre ★ Toru Takemitsu ★★★ Alexandre Tansman ½ Virgil Thomson ★½ Heinz Tiessen ½ Michael Tippett ★★½ Charles Tournemire ★ Geirr Tveitt ½ Marcel Tyberg Edgard Varèse ★★★½ Ralph Vaughan Williams ★★★★★ Giuseppe Verdi Louis Vierne ★ Heitor Villa-Lobos ★½ Claude Vivier ★★★ William Walton ★½ Anton Webern ★★★½ Felix Weingartner Richard Wetz Hermann Hans Wetzler ★ Grace Williams ½ William Wordsworth ½ Kosaku Yamada ★ Akio Yashiro ★★½ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,526 Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I just learned Liszt had the same type of following as the Beatles. "Lisztomania" was considered a mental illness. People were trampling over each other to get broken piano strings from him to use as bracelets. The wenches went cray-cray for ol' Ferenc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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