Favorite composers?

[Q9]

I'm taking music history right now, and it's providing me with a great excuse to listen to MY kind of music - CLASSICAL!

So, I was just wondering, which composers are preferred by BYCers? My favorite, out and away, is Ludwig van Beethoven. Why? Not only is his music great, but he had a horribly nasty temper that lead to this response to a critic:

"What I crap is better than anything YOU could think up!" Beethoven in a nutshell. Plus, it's funny because it's true.

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

Vivaldi. He is... classical in a bottle.

 

[Spookwriter]

There can be no doubt that Beethoven is bad to the bone.
I don't know if it's even possible to say which is his best piece.
Fifth Symphony? Ninth Symphony? Something else, depending
on the mood? How awesome he was. Even deaf, he composed
some of the worlds best known music.


And Vivaldi...his violin movements. Not one of my personal favorites,
but it does have it's time when nothing else is right.

There's so much...Bach...Mozart...Stravinsky...Brahms.

Classicial music by these guys has got to be the whole reason behind
top notch home stereo.

But if I have to choose only one to be my go to music ... It's got to be
Tchaikovsky.

 

[eenie114]

What he said: Tchaikovsky if I had to pick one.
Followed closely by Strauss and Beethoven. I inherited my mom's love of Strauss waltzes.

 

[Duramaxgirl]

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I also like the blue Danube... who wrote that? And when I was a teen, many moons ago, my brother had a song that I loved called The Morning... anybody remember who wrote that one? It was also classical.

 

[Boyd]

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1812 overture

 

[TigerLilly]

I like any of them that have an upbeat tempo, but I'd have to say Beethoven is my fav. The more 'lively' the music, the more house-cleaning I can get done!

 

[debilorrah]

Mozart's the Marriage of Figaro.

 

[TigerLilly]

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Good one!

 

[debilorrah]

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Good one!

My very favorite of all the classic composers. I adore Mozart.