ITT: we make biased opinions of eachother based on our favorite classical composers.
My 3 fav's
>Schubert
>Debussy
>Tchaikosky
Schoenberg
Glass
Cage
come at me
>>63349075
Sophomore composition student.
bruckner
strauss
mahler
>>63349435
sorry, 2nd semester bachelor in geology.
>>63349303
Bachelor student in history...or astrology, likes dark and gritty stuff like Lovecraftian lore and the like, your prefered cooking style is the french cuisinne.
I've never even heard of any of these guys desu, but Schoenberg and Cage was really good, thx for these man.
>>63349572
"to be honest" is changed to desu? why the fuck?
>>63349512
Nazi.
>>63349512
Full of energy, goofy, first one to start and last one to stop dancing. You can hold your liqour and is generally a fun guy. Would have a beer with.
>>63349692
kek
>>63349572
Wrong on all counts. Haven't heard of even Glass? They're all contemp because I can't into classical classical.
>>63349790
Fugg, what IS your prefered cooking cuisinne if any then?
I need to know because reasons
Scelsi
Ligeti
Stockhausen
>>63349075
You enjoy going for walks at night.
>>63349303
You plan on learning an instrument someday.
>>63349512
You have been listening to classical since young, and you have witnessed it live.
>>63349075
Brahms
Ravel
Lassus
>>63349075
Bellini
Mozart
Beethoven
Pls. Rate
>>63350710
Do you like pop as well? There's a big emphasis on accessible and melodic here.
Bach
Mahler
Schubert
Arvo Part
Philip Glass
Steve Reich
>>63350815
recently saw the hammer drop gifs, gotta listen to the entire symphony. so i'd say you like thor
Howells
Ravel
Messiaen
>>63349075
Reserved but pleasant guy. Unjudgemental and will listen to your problems.
>>63349303
Is awfully excited by the idea that they are into The Avant-Garde.
>>63349512
Boisterous beer-drinker with a sensitive side. Also, which Strauss?
>>63350627
Also excited by the avant-garde, but won't smoke weed like the previous guy. Probably likes exotic pets.
>>63350688
Patrician Musician.
>>63350627
romanian spectralism / 10
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
>>63349075
Pretty melodies. You do not get counterpoint-boners/10
>>63349303
I like wilfully obtuse things/10
>>63349512
firetruck ahoy. Loud, brassy like my filmscores/10
>>63350627
avant-teen/10
>>63350688
well-balanced individual/10
>>63350710
don't listen to much classical music, but I heard an aria by Bellini and I'm putting that in to appear more knowledgeable than I actually am/10. Good choice with Mozart though
>>63350815
I don't listen to much classical music, but I do know enough to put some safe choices/10
>>63350918
I listen to this while I study/10
>>63350937
I like funky harmonies and potentially have some background in church music/10
>>63351036
Very safe/10
mozart
brahms
wagner
Mussorgsky
Stravinsky
Cage
Brahms
Mozart
Poulenc
Palestrina
Bach
Martinů
>>63351278
Poly/10
Saint Saens
Richard Strauss
Bernstein
>>63351236
>Don't listen to much classical
Wrong. I'm a big Opera fan and hope to become an Opera singer. Good call though. I see how you could think that. I also like Offenbach and Sullivan.
>>63351327
Nu-male/10 likes Broadway musicals
mozart
stockhausen
mendelssohn
>>63351344
>Big opera fan
>likes Beethoven
??
>>63350813
No, I don't like pop music but I do like accessible Operettas and Masses.
>>63351386
While I love Opera, I also listen to symphonies and piano works. You can like both.
Stravinsky
Beethoven
Bach
>>63351359
it was actually trouble in tahiti that made me put him up to my top 3. I've only been in high school productions of musicals. In the pit though
and the age of anxiety was a pretty great symphony
>>63351257
You like more traditional styles of Classical.
>>63351278
You like music that is more complex.
>>63351415
who's your favorite solo piano composer? idk whether to pick sibelius or brahms
>>63351477
Probably Grieg Tbh. The ones you've mentioned are good too.
>>63351513
I'm interested in getting to know better Grieg. What works do you recommend?
>>63351532
Lyric pieces, all of them
>>63351477
>Sibelius as best solo piano composer
what the fuck
>>63351532
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCDgl_OLwCg
Bach
Chopin
Ravel
>>63351586
i didn't say best, i said favorite, you goon.
>>63351632
>not having the best as your favourite
what the fuck
CPE Bach
Liszt
Satie
>>63351648
at least i don't be in the bathroom typing on the computer naked talking to my girlfriend farting on the toilet
>>63351694
this desu
>>63351694
Excuse me?
>>63351626
You like and play Piano.
Chopin
Satie
Debussy
ahahah this ajA person is amazing. A breath of fresh air on this place. Clearly a person who respects everyone's tastes and don't see himself as superior. How cool it would be if there were more people like him...this place could actually be really good and we could all learn, teach and share.
>>63351791
Let me guess, you're ajA and you took your trip off?
Johann
Wolfgang
Ludwig
>>63351903
nah that anon ain't me
thank you !ajA for being so awesome !!
Shostakovich
Rimsky-Korsakov
Shoenberg
>>63349512
Young, got more heavily into classical music approximately 2-3 years ago. Favorite period is the romantic. Not in any arts program, but is in English or humanities. Something like that.
>>63350627
A weird fucker. I respect Stockhausen and ligeti, but they aint my favorites. You'd be fucked if you actually did like them a lot.
>>63350710
I don't say casual, because all of these composers are great. But I doubt you actually like the modernists either. You straddle the line of elitism, almost pretentious enough to betlittle people for liking "le meme composers" like minimalists and modernists, but not pretentious enough to go past the biggest greats.
>>63351327
Neat fellow. Somehow affiliated directly with music, whether by parents siblings or study. You don't venerate the romantic period, but you love music with character, stuff that is bombastic and expressive in an energetic way.
>>63351359
Musicals are fun you fuck. West-Side Story is 9/10
>>63351652
>inferior bach/10
Plays piano casually, likes music accordingly. Not explored farther into less conventional repetoire, but has interest anyways.
My favorites, albeit not what I think are "best"
>Mahler.
>Prokofiev.
>Shostakovich.
Its hard to give a definitive list, but based on what I listen to most often and relisten to consistently that's probably mine.
>>63352070
>My favorites, albeit not what I think are "best"
>>Mahler.
>>Prokofiev.
>>Shostakovich.
are you jewish by any chance
>>63352012
jesus stop trying so hard, it's cringy even tho everyone knows it's ironic
reverse psychology doesn't really work here you know
>>63352070
damn I forgot about Shostakovich, love that nigga
>>63352099
that guy's not me dude lol
>>63352070
>you dislike meme composers and are pretentious
No, I don't belittle a classical fan's taste. Also I really like John Adams. Now that I think of it, you could replace Beethoven with Offenbach or Adams.
>>63352128
whatever, assuming you're not lying it applies both to you and this other anon
Leonard Bernstein
Alfred Schnittke
Steve Reich
>>63352015
>>63352070
You both like odd and slightly complex/ non-traditional Russian music. You both also might like some Soviet era jazz.
>>63352160
I'm not being ironic though, I've never been more serious in my life.
>>63352095
Nope. Jews are great at music though nigga.
>>63352103
One of the greats imo. The only reason he doesn't get more attention is because he didn't technically innovate anything that significant. All his pieces themselves are pretty fucking great though. Quartets, symphonies, sonatas, concertos, they guy did it all.
>>63352130
/classical/ has conditioned me to be suspicious of anyone that seems to like conventional composers. Most people throw in a curve ball for appearances sake.
>>63352262
you know anything by any composer that's similar to his 5th symphony? cuz that's my favorite work of his
>>63352262
i honestly don´t get your name. what is the joke
>>63352327
>Mahler = Nail her
>>63352357
wtf isn't his name pronounced maw-lurr?
>>63352376
Yes? That's not the joke though. Unless it means mawl her.
>>63352357
sorry for being pedantic but mahler sounds nothing liek nail her
>>63352327
Its a homophone. Maul her? I just met her! Its not the best. But i revel in stupidity.
>>63352306
I'd not be the best resource in that respect probably. I listen to his violin works most. All his violin sonatas are great.
The Classical symphony and Symphony 7 are really good.
Maybe you'd like the Prokofiev Violin Concerto 2? Its pretty frantic sounding, one of my favorites. The second symphony is good too, that'd probably be closest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ZMwdB0J3c
Scythian suite is a really fun firebird-esque piece as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac49JLoNk2w
>>63352357
['mah - leh]
Shostakovich is really amazing. There was a time in which almost every saturday or sunday morning, i would wake up, play his 7th symphony really loud. That really got my day going.
^ oh i almost forgot to add... for the anon that acused me of being aJA: I'm not aJA. I just really dig his style.
Schutz
Gesualdo
Bach
I await my judgement.
Schumann
Prokofiev
Mozart
>>63352832
nice.
>>63352768
I assume you're a musician. Your love polyphony and bach has led you to believe its the height of classical music, or at least your favorite form.
You even like the well tempered klavier, the art of fugue, and the entire goldberg variations.
I assume you're a post grad of 2-3 years.
>>63352832
>Why schumann/10
No idea. That's a pretty varied set of styles.
Mozart
Bach
Brahms
>>63353088
patrician.
>>63353088
Not self-confident. Or too elitist.
I can't fathom a person who's favorite composers align perfectly with the best composers.
I guess you have a music education that substantiates your high opinion of them. I respect them as the great, but they don't appeal as personally as others imo.
>>63353181
>I can't fathom a person who's favorite composers align perfectly with the best composers.
how long have you been listening to classical music please
>>63353181
>Not self-confident.
You bet
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
>>63353202
14 years. Played for about 12.
I'm not trivializing the technical prowess of each. Mozart, Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven are near to objectively the best composers of all time.
I just find that over the course of exploring the genre there are pieces that strike me more emotionally. Especially in regards to Mozart. Unless you thoroughly understand the context of his accomplishments at a young age your liable to become more attached to the works of romantic or modernist composers imo.
>>63353226
Still have good taste anon.
>>63352926
schumanns my favorite swashbuckling composer when it comes to treatment of melody with rhythm. mozart comes close in personal preference, but with an orderly eye of genius on form, instrumentation, and proportion.
prokofiev's there for the neoclassicist, yet dissonant, take.
i find that all 3 composers, at times, give me an impression of impetuous yet moody humor.
>>63352227
>Soviet era jazz
Largely doesn't exist because it was banned.
>>63353265
lol. so basically mozart and bach cannot be anyone´s favorites because they are too great. what silliness.
>>63353522
Not what I'm saying. I'm just saying its not very likely.
The people who tend to like all the greats are usually either very casual listeners or VERY patrician listeners. That's the funny thing. I think that most people that post in /classical/ are neither.
People that are casual listen to them because they're the most popular and accessible, people that are patrician listen to them because of formal perfection and all the other things that make them great.
Everyone that likes classical likes them. So I just find that when you ask the question who are your "favorites" its a given. That said, everyone turns to their personal favorites outside of the ubiquity and irrefutable quality of those composers.
I think most people see these threads as opportunities for self-expression and exposure. Thus people will say more obscure or controversial composers who eke out their personality better or who they want to promote / defend.
>>63353688
>I think most people see these threads as opportunities for self-expression and exposure.
judging from your posts this may very well be true.
It's my case. I'm a casual classic music listner. It was classical radio where i learned to appreciate this music.
I like to listen to a lot of different things and i mostly don't say not to anything. The downside to this is that i don't get to really have a deep knowledge of most genres.
Anyway that said i have been listening to this record a lot: http://www.carpediem-records.de/en/vox-cosmica
It's from a female composer who lived in the 11th or 12th century. Really overwhelmed by her music.
>>63351777
You're an anti-formalist
Debussy
Ives
Lassus
>>63349075
Homo
>Wagner
>Strauss
>Dvorák
>>63352926
I'm very tickled by your assessment. But I have to throw you for a loop since I'm a neet dropout with no training in music. You may have just compelled me to learn some music theory though.
>You even like the well tempered klavier, the art of fugue, and the entire goldberg variations.
Listening to the goldberg variations right now!
Here, have a nice cantata for your flattery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9MBa8lXV4
Beethoven
Takashi Yoshimatsu
Vangelis
Prokofiev
Scriabin
Bartok
>>63350688
>Brahms
>Ravel
>Lassus
You listen to music for captivating melodies
>>63351652
>CPE Bach
>Satie
You like a well-placed meme here and there.
>>63352438
>Forgetting about Piano Concerto 4 and Piano Concerto 2
Both are bombastic a la 5th Symphony
>>63355429
>Yoshimatsu
You either play sax or listened to my shilling in /classical/.
>>63349075
Bach
Stravinsky
Debussy
Only because I haven't ;istened to many others, I'm a bit of a classical pleb.
Grieg
Ravel
Debussy
Chopin
Liszt
Ligeti
>>63355647
No lol found it randomly in youtube. I think this guy is pure lyricism and his harmonic style just moves me. Also the consistence of quality in his work is outstanding, also much exploration and variety he definitely pushed tonality forward when people said Wagner had made it old and took tension to the limit. I also got to shill his cyberbird concerto into the new japanese chart,
>>63355837
Nice pham. If you like him give Akutagawa a listen if you haven't already. Music for Symphony Orchestra and Trinita Sinfonica are great starter pieces.
>>63355809
you cant count
Brahms
Mahler
Wagner
Am i a pleb?
Ravel
Stravinsky
Takemitsu
>>63355926
>Mahlah
>Wagner
Yes
OP here, this shit fucking blew up while I was away
>>63350937
Very accurate, gratz
>>63351236
What does that even mean?
>>63355202
Edgy teenager, >>>/b/ is that way
Brahms is overrated as fuck. Accept it. He´s a poor man´s Beethoven. He didn´t innovate shit.
The Immortal JS Bach
The Tryhard Max Reger
The Unlimited Taste Works Brahms
to behonest
>>63355419
Ha oh well.
That's the funny thing about classical, the very best music is loved by both people that are new and people that are long time lovers. Its objectively great stuff.
The well tempered klavier, art of fugue are really more studies than anything else but if you have an ear for detail and like the style they can be just about as interesting and pleasant. Its amazing to see him spin out the fugue in every form.
>>63355647
The 2nd PC is my all time favorite piano concerto, the only thing that could dethrone it is the Emperor. Re-listening to the 5th symphony i guess they'd actually have fit better. I actually think the PC is a bit more daring in terms of style actually. The 5th still has some resemblance to traditional style by comparison.
>>63356367
Coming up with themes for /classical/ threads is really the way to go imo, gets way more discussion going.
>>63355926
P'erhaps a tad lad.
Mahler and Wagner have great appeal for their thematic triumphs and the huge orchestral flourishes, but their overall body of work pales in comparison to many. Hell, Mahler is my own favorite, but when you can choose from composers who also wrote operas, sonatas, concertos, and quartets, there's much that leaves wanting.
Same with Wagner. I fucking love his overtures and his operas (if you see them live) will absolutely drain you emotionally (if you stay awake). They're good, but I'd take it that you're getting into things more often or don't have a solid classical education.
If you haven't looked into the impressionists give it a try. More understated composers are fantastic too.
Debussy and Ravel are comfy as fuck.
