Best Composers

[Cosette]

Arvo Part.

 

[fashionist]

^ Yes, I was just thinking I'd add him. Simply beautiful, spiritual music. Especially Spiegel im Spiegel and Fratres, i'm not at all religious but .

Also other personal favourites not previously mentioned:
Brahms
Mendelssohn
Tavener
Sibelius
Handel


and all the great Italian operatics - Verdi, Bellini, Rossini, Puccini i could go on and on .............................

 

[#umero]

Franz Liszt
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Frederic Chopin
Richard Wagner

There are others that I like/admire, but I like powerful, lyrical, late romantic composers this most.

 

[#umero]

Claude Debussy....have to say I wasn't familiar with his pieces. Thank you AlexN for mentioning him

One of the defining impressionst composers, lots of imagery in his pieces, like painting a blurry, dreamy, picture with music. I love his works, he's so genius! He didn't use a lot of the conventional harmonies, but they weren't completely atonal/twelve-tone either. Very poetic and lovely...

 

[meme527]

There are others that I like/admire, but I like powerful, lyrical, late romantic composers this most.

to play, or to listen to?

 

[#umero]

Both.