Do you like classical music?

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I used to enjoy some minimalism, but not anymore. Minimalism doesn't appeal to me anymore unless I am under the influence of a lot of very strong marijuana. I still try to listen to it from time to time, but I get so bored with it that I can't seem to finish an entire piece. I've also been losing my patience for repetition, though not nearly as much.

Unfortunately, kinda the 'greatest hits stuff'; Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn (sp?), Tchaikovsky, Holst, some Beethoven, Renaissance music (what most people think is medieval music..., Handel, yada, yada...

But I do like it.

Definitely love classical music my favorites are:
Thomas Tallis
Palestrina
William Byrd
Gregorio Allegri
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Christian Bach
Wilhelm Friedman Bach
Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach
Vivaldi
Teleman
Handel
Haydn
Beethoven
Gustav Mahler
Eric Satie
Among the moderns:
Gustav Holst
Phillip Glass
Glenn Gould
Howard Shore

Baroque is my favourite, particularly Handel.

I also like Mozart very much.

I like opera and oratorio - I find it very sensually pleasing to listen to voices going up and down in a smooth clear pure way. But I don't like choruses - then there are too many people and it gets confusing. I like when one person is singing, or two are singing a duet.

Wow.. There is an array of music that many of you are considering classical. While I tend to think of classical as anything from baroque, romantic and other periods, but it seems some feel it also envelopes Opera and Theatrical composers too?

I'm rather fond of Vivaldi, Handel and Rachmoninoff.

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I've played Symphonies 2, 3 and 5 in the amateur orchestra that I'm in now and I played Pohjola's Daughter in my university orchestra - all great stuff.

It's virtually all I listen to.

Beethoven

Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Wagner, Liszt, Rameau, Dvorak, Ravel, Schumann, Berlioz, Mahler, Chopin, Vivaldi, Schoenberg, Debussy, Prokofiev, Glass, etc.

I grew up listening to classical music. My dad was into it. He used to make me and my brother identify each piece that was played in the old Warner Bros. cartoons. (Can you tell he's an Aspie? ) I also sang it in choirs for many years.

I like a little bit of everything from Gregorian chant through modern composers.

Praetorius
Dowland
Tomas Luis de la Victoria
Handel
Haydn
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Smetana
Respighi
Ives
Britten
Glass
etc., etc., etc.

Absolutely love it. My favourites include Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky; Ralph Vaughan-Williams; Johannes Brahms; György Ligeti; Arvo Pärt; Steve Reich; Ludwig van Beethoven; Gustav Mahler; Johann Sebastian Bach; Mily Balakirev.

Dig classical, baroque; not so much with the later stuff.

I listen to Dvorak, a bit of Beethoven and Schoenberg, and some assorted pieces by different composers. A "Best of Beethoven" CD that I won in bingo at school when I was 8 was the first music that I really loved.

I'm not big on too much CLASSIC classical--I like a little Mozart, a little Bach, a little Gorecki, a little Orff ("O Fortuna" kicks ass)...

But I prefer more recent semi-classical works. I love neo-classical, like Elend (which takes classical instruments but uses them for an extremely cacophanous, dark, gothic sound) or Dark Sanctuary (depressing, bleak piano-and-vocal music). Those two bands are IMO by far the best neo-classical artists and they're both from Paris, hah.

I also love movie scores, if they count. Danny Elfman, John Williams, etc. The soundtrack for "Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer" is my favorite.

I'm a "three Bs" kinda guy: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. Throw Schumann in there, too. I love the little motifs which are inverted and transformed in all sorts of ways to give the music cohesion. This is much better than the blatantly obvious Wagnerian leitmoifs, where each little phrase of the music is supposed to actually "mean" something.

By the way, I've never heard a composer use minor chords like Brahms. I just think it is absolutely fantastic!

When I'm not listening to classical music (which is most of the time), I'm listening to traditional Irish music.

Wow, that says it all for me, especially Wagner and Mahler. And don't forget Liszt in that mix. All of the pianists at school loved him, except me. I could not stand anything that that man wrote!

As for the minimalists, I like Steve Reich quite a bit. I could probably get into Glass as well, I just haven't had the inclination.

I also have great respect for John Cage. I know he doesn't count as a minimalist (as the definition usually applied), but he was minimalistic in philosophy. He was all about getting people to recognize the sounds around them as music. Roaratorio is one of my favorites.

Bach!

Indian classical mostly.