Is John Williams your favorite composer?

[Ollie 859]

If only we listened.

You will learn, you will learn....

[Red 73]

I'm kinda' suprised that no one has chosen the last option. You know, just to throw people off.

[Saxbabe 28]

Also Option 2. He's by far my favorite film composer, but not absolute favorite composer. I have favorites lists for film and classical composers, separately. Classical favorites are Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Haydn, Sibelius, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, Ravel. I like him as much as some of these, but consider film composing a separate genre.

-Greta

[Sergeant 1,093]

Wow , Sibelius.

I have always liked Texans!

I'm kinda' suprised that no one has chosen the last option. You know, just to throw people off.

There are still some things , that are sacred.

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

Sibelius rules.

[Sergeant 1,093]

...and Vienneses!...

[Jeshopk 8]

He's my favorite composer. Much of this has to do with the opportunities he has been given and what he has made of them. He has such a wealth of great music behind him now, moreso than any other composer I have ever known of. I know that technically, Mozart and Beethoven are also 'great" and wrote many hours of music, but they never wrote anything like "The Abduction of Barry" or something like "One Barrel Chase". Its his diverse yet unified body of mainly effective work that makes him my favorite. Also, his very best moments are the greatest music I have ever heard.

[Richard Penna 2,082]

Option two for me.

He's in my top 3 composers (JW, JNH and T.Newman) but James Newton Howard took the mantle last year.

[crocodile 6,294]

JW is my favourite. But not the only one to respect.

Karol

[Elmo Lewis 6]

There are a lot of great composers out there, and a lot of them are better than Williams.

But Williams just cilcks with me.

[Whill 0]

I was just curious for how many of you John Williams is your absolute favorite composer, as opposed to just another really good composer.

Yes B)

[SeekUYoda 0]

It's either him or Brahms. Hard to say, really, though I am certainly much more obsessive about tracking down Williams music and information than I am for that of Brahms. The thing I love about both of them is that I always hear something different every time - there's always another layer, or another way that the different voices interact with one another, such that you could spend an entire year studying a major work and still not be bored at the end of it. But it's Williams and Brahms, and everybody else is way back there in the dust.

[Admiral Holdo 16]

JW's my 3rd favorite - after Conti and Goldsmith (in that order). Is that bad?

[Morn 7]

There are certain composers that I could not say Williams is better than. And I'd say that Alex North and Ennio Morricone are a little better than him.

[Sergeant 1,093]

Morricone , yes if we are talking about quantity.If quality , not even close.

[Morn 7]

Morricone has plenty of quality, but what he is best at is originality.

[scissorhands 16]

Morricone has plenty of quality, but what he is best at is originality.

Don't get me wrong, but (as much as I like his latest scores) the man hasn't come up with anything original in the last 2 decades. I don't perceive any significant evolution in Morricone, something vital for any artist.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Peio, there comes a point in everyone's life that you don't renew yourself, or develop, or evolve, you just excist.

[Elmo Lewis 6]

And that moment is called "deathbed".

I mean, you're dead when what you are is what you've been.