Your favorite composer.

[Rick Nebiolo]

Chamber music is the classical style I listen to most often and IMO Haydn and Schubert are about the best I've run into in my limited experience. If I had to make a choice I'd take Haydn. Of course all I can afford are those $6 specials from Naxos [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

~ Rick

[PhatTBoll]

Mussorgsky is pretty bitchin.



They say he drank himself to death, but I don't believe that.

[andyfox]

I agree with Chopin. He was the master of every facet of musical composition (except for arranging): melody, harmony, counterpoint, form, texture, voicing, rhythm.

[Zeno]

There are obviously so many good composers to choose from that to pick only one is rather hard. I'll throw out some knuckle balls:

John Philip Sosa
Gershwin
Schumann

Chopin is good (I have a two CD set 'Best of Chopin') but too musical. So Andy is wrong. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] Figure that one out.

Schubert was a genius but unfortunetly he died at 31. And for shear beauty and poetic perfection he produced some extraordinary pieces of music.

Handel was no slouch either. Aside from the obvious work, See, Largo from Xerxes.

I think 'favorite' may depend not only on taste but particular mood of the listener at the time.

-Zeno

[ClaytonN]

I don't think Yo Yo Ma goes under this category as he is a cello player, but he's the only classical I listen to. The combination is the eastern China classical mixed with Mozart is great stuff,

[degenerategambler]

liszt was quite the pimp, wasnt he?

[M2d]

Copeland
Gershwin
Buy american first