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- ave
Love Beethoven, of course. Can't love him enough.
Bach. oh yeah!
Prokofiev. < -Insanely good
Chopin. <-Mmmmm creamy piano
Ravel.
Schubert.
Schuman -sp?
Brahms.
Rachmaninov.
Satie.
...and...Mozart, but he wasn't human, so he doesn't count. F*** is he good!
- langford0
whoever composed the wedding march from a midsummer's night dream and whoever composed that one opera that is always in bugs bunny cartoons; italian? maybe ave knows..
- 4cY0
You forgot Dvoràk!
- langford0
(midsummer night's dream; sorry)
- ave0
I do like Dvorak, but I haven't spent alot of time listening to him.
Rossini from bugs bunny, I think? Not so familiar with the Italians.
- ave0
Kurt Weil -sp?
though, again I haven't spent much time listening to him. Same with Stravinsky, but I like most of what I've heard.
- dsmith70
Shostakovich
Ligetti
and most importantly Stravinsky
- londonBoy0
"whoever composed the wedding march from a midsummer's night dream"
Mendelssohn is the man.
Me?
Stravinsky (God-like)Prokofiev (I worship - my tip: Piano Concerto No.3 in C)
Debussy (Yummy french genious - my tip: Prelude A L'apres Midi D'un Faune)
Ravel (Bolero: Torvill & Dean - sadly, incredibly boring to play - my tip: Piano Concerto in G and LeftHand Concerto in D flat)
Barber (Adagio for Strings used in PLATOON -i think! His other stuff is really good too.)
Mozart (genious - my tip: Piano Concerto No.21 in C)
Rachmaninoff (russian genious)
Shostakovich (lighten up!! - my tip: Symphony No.5)
Dvorak (Hovis Bread Advert)
Brahms (yeah - my tip: Symphony No.2 in D and No.4)
Elgar (Nimrod, Pomp & Circumstance et al.. - my tip: Symphony No.1 in A flat)
Bartok (academic)
Mark-Anthony Turnage (modern + british)
John Williams (you either love him or hate him)
Richard Strauss (not the Strauss family that gave us those horrid viennese waltzes like Blue Danube! - This is the Strauss that gave us Also Spract Zarathustra (Original Planet of the Apes))
James McMillan (Scot - my tip: The Beserking)
Stockhaussen (experimental)
Lutoslawski (my tip: orchestral works)
Michael Tippett (important)
Falla (spanish stuff)
Benjy Britten (Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra)
Stephen Sondheim (music theatre)
Copland (my tip: Clarinet Concerto)
Dukas (frenchman who gave us the Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Grieg (my tip: Piano Concerto in A minor)
- blend30
Sibelius and Rachamaninov
- ave0
Nice line up londonBoy!
- quamb0
Stockhaussen
Vangellis (giggles)
- tomkat0
john barry, henry mancini, jerry goldsmith
no classics there - sorry
- CyBrainX0
Mozart
Beethoven
Bach
- chimchim0
Barber
Stravinsky
Holst
- londonBoy0
I'd like to append Mahler on my list for the most amazing C major chord in a C minor Symphony (No.2)
- kodap0
anyone for Wagner?
- scarabin0
it's all about the first and third movements of beethoven's "moonlight sonata". in adagio on the last one.