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04 Dec 2009, 9:55 pm

Mine:

Johann Sebastian Bach (Germany, 1685 – 1750, for example: cantata BWV 147 - 1. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben)
Antonio Vivaldi (Italy, 1678 – 1741, for example: opera Moctezuma)
Georg Friedrich Händel (Germany, 1685 – 1759, for example: oratorio Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus)
(all Baroque :) )


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04 Dec 2009, 10:18 pm

I have difficulty picking out a single composer and have the same problem with modern musicians. I like specific songs, but more often than not, I don't like the majority of songs on a specific album or by a certain artist. However, at the moment I enjoy Chopin, particularly Fantasae Impromptu.


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05 Dec 2009, 12:57 am

Vivaldi and Debussy are my favorite. Can't say that I enjoy Chopin so much. On the other hand, I find I like particular guys with the batons more than others. Whether or not I like Ravel's Bolero is completely dependent on the conductor. The best and only version that hasn't irritated me is the slowest, just the way Ravel intended. :)
I really like Baroque, but not all of it. I don't like that weird background music they play at parties. I feel like I should be wearing a wig or something, haha. But, I like more soulful music, like the Four Seasons, which I was addicted to, just a little time ago.



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05 Dec 2009, 1:00 am

bonuspoints wrote:
I have difficulty picking out a single composer and have the same problem with modern musicians. I like specific songs, but more often than not, I don't like the majority of songs on a specific album or by a certain artist. However, at the moment I enjoy Chopin, particularly Fantasae Impromptu.
Fantasae Impromptu is amazing, though. Chopin must have had a dex of at least 17. :)



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05 Dec 2009, 1:10 am

Rachmaninoff.



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05 Dec 2009, 1:56 am

so many composers, so much individual brilliance; vivaldi, bach, handel, mozart, beethoven, rossini, liszt, wagner, verdi... all the way to philip glass and michael nyman. i find it hard to identify one particular favourite.

to quote bonuspoints:

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I have difficulty picking out a single composer and have the same problem with modern musicians...


i agree with this and i almost find it frustrating that music is my only seemingly non-focused interest. :roll: :lol:

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oh, and happy belated birthday Scientist. :D


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05 Dec 2009, 7:52 pm

tektek wrote:
oh, and happy belated birthday Scientist. :D
:D Thank you very much! ;)


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07 Dec 2009, 1:47 am

Chopin. 8)


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07 Dec 2009, 8:01 am

I like too much classical music to be able to pick a favourite. J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart are at the top of my listening list at the moment.


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07 Dec 2009, 10:53 am

There are way too many for me to pick, I have favorite pieces/composers from early music to modern music. The classical music that I listen to really depends upon whom I am in the mood to listen to at the moment. I am currently in the process of listening to a lot of Haydn, Bach and classical renditions of Christmas carols.



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07 Dec 2009, 2:17 pm

we had a similar thread recently:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt108903.html


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