Beethoven's a pimp

Rock it down masta B!

my fave composers (that's the word ur looking for mate )
Vivaldi
Beethoven
Vaughan Williams
Tchaikovsky
Handel
all types of neo-classicism music
Strauss
Mozart
Bach
and some other Romantic era composers that i can't remember

Studied music at school and college so grew to love it.Nice to find other classical music lovers

@sw

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

@DS9 + indy...thanks

Tavener (Akathist)
Villa-Lobos (Descobrimento do Brasil)
Bruckner (Heligoland)
Prokofiev (The Fiery Angel)
Stravinsky (The Firebird)
Shoshtakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District)
Rimsky-Korasakov (The Invisible City of Kitezh)
Wagner (yeh ok I know, he was a proto-nazi, but Parsifal still makes go all goose-bumpy and I love Der Ring des Nibelungen and Tannhauser)
Resphigi (i Pini di Roma)
Vaughan-Williams (Sinfonia Antarctica)
Sibelius (Finlandia)
Grieg (Peer Gynt)

of contemporary composers I listen mostly to Philip Glass and Michael Nyman


Edited by - Grand Mullah Tawakalna on 10/1/2005 12:14:07 PM

Taw--keep in mind the Nazis are simply a product of underlying Gnosticism and Martin Luther. Most of europe were proto-nazis

My favourites:

Accolay
Kriesler
Vivaldi
Correli
Verdi
Tchaikovsky
Bach
Beethoven

Hmm I forgot all about Prokofiev...his music is q nice...I forgot Chopin to
I only recently "discovered" Wagner...Tannhauser is a very beautiful piece
What do you think of Der Fliegende Hollnder(Flying dutchman) Taw?

Edited by - sycho warrior on 10/1/2005 12:31:07 PM

Bach
Shubert
Dvorak
and least but no all,
Johann Pachelbel for Canon in D Minor


Edited by - Finalday on 10/1/2005 12:50:48 PM

If there's 1 thing i really hate,it's people bringing polotics into music.
The thing to concentrate on is the melodies,chordal movements of the music,not the crap that goes on in the back-ground.Music is supposed to be universal..no matter what creed,race,gender or type of being they/you/it/we are.
I'm not flaming anyone here btw,and yes u may be right,but do we have to have to know what someone's political or otherwise ties are?

btw..yes i also forgot wagner,good composer.

samuel barber, adagio for strings in c minor, brings a tear to my eye when i hear it

Finalday, I believe the Canon was in D major.

And yes, DS9, his views on the Jews (ooh! rhyme! views on the Jews who bring news of the snooze...or blues...) do matter, considering that he was his own librettist and the characters of the scheming, evil, short, ugly, hooknosed, covetous Nibelung Dwarves basically had 'Jew' stamped all over them.

Several Jews (my grandfather, in fact) make it a point not to see Wagner's operas and especially the Ring cycle because this simply is so offensive.

More relevant to Wagner's music, however, was the fact that he was just a disgusting human being: an arrogant, self-obsessed, narcissistic, mysogynist (did I spell that right???), elitist prick of gargantuan porportions.

Edited by - Wilde on 10/1/2005 4:05:42 PM

I hate it when people bring Bollotics into music threads too

My fav, its got to be John Williams.




I KID I KID!!! Sheesh, easy Taw, I don't want to be done on murder charges cause you'd choked on that one

Hmm, my fav composers - so many names that I cannot remember them all (sadly). I often don't know whom wrote the tune, just that I flippin love it.
Strauss
Vivaldi
Bach
Beethoven
Motzart (almost like staples these guys)
Tchaikovsky
Handel
Shubert
Fuch
Elgar
Kirchner
Debussy
Haydn
Chopin
Schumann

Meh, mostly because I have learnt pieces by each of them whilst playing the piano - I certainly don't know their whole repetoire at all, just a few select from each.
*edit* - Spelling mistaken Indy, meant Strauss

Edited by - MIke G on 10/2/2005 2:06:45 AM

Wilde, It is Cannon in D Minor

I like everyone already mentioned... with the likely exception of Wagner... and it doesn't have to do with his politics... I just find his work to be rather over the top and bombastic in a truly intentionally wanting to be over the top and bombastic way.

Didn't see but could have missed someone else already mentioning

Brahms
Chopin
Rachmaninoff
and Strauss.... the waltz one