Your top five classical composers

It may be rather generic, but of all that I've played, my favorites are:

Bach
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Mozart
toss up between Paganini and Strauss


Currently working on the Bach Chaconne and Beethoven Violin Concerto

Ah-- another fiddler in the house.

Originally Posted by Connemara

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I've been all about Strauss and Handel as of late.

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Found this when I was looking for the Dvorak on YouTube.

Jan Hammer

1. Beethoven 2. Mozart 3. Rimsky-Korsakov 4. Haydn 5. Dvorak Enjoy!

Originally Posted by Althis

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It may be rather generic, but of all that I've played, my favorites are:

Bach
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Mozart
toss up between Paganini and Strauss


Currently working on the Bach Chaconne and Beethoven Violin Concerto

Paganini? Really? He really wasnt much of a composer.
If you are going for technically difficult violin music with heart its either Bartok or Ysaye for the win.
Im also a fiddler.
Beethoven violin concerto is one of the best pieces ever written (as is the Bach Chaconne).
All of the below wrote for most insturments, all wrote for orchestra, and all wrote some of finest string music every concieved.
1. Shostakovich
2. Bartok
3. Bach
4. Beethoven
5. Messiaen

To round out the top 10....
6. Brahms
7. Debbusy
8. Ravel
9. Stravinsky

Mozart is a great composer

1. Beethoven (on the back of the 9th alone - had he not written anything else, the 9th by itself is IMO, worthy of this slot.)
2. Bach
3. Haydn
4. Mozart
5. Tchaikovsky

Johann Bach
George Handel
Beethoven
Schubert
Tchaikovsky

Originally Posted by antirabbit

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Paganini? Really? He really wasnt much of a composer. If you are going for technically difficult violin music with heart its either Bartok or Ysaye for the win. Im also a fiddler.
Paganini can be very beautiful I you are in to that sort of thing. Also, Mozart is dead by the way.

Originally Posted by antirabbit

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Paganini? Really? He really wasnt much of a composer.
If you are going for technically difficult violin music with heart its either Bartok or Ysaye for the win.
Im also a fiddler.
Beethoven violin concerto is one of the best pieces ever written (as is the Bach Chaconne).
All of the below wrote for most insturments, all wrote for orchestra, and all wrote some of finest string music every concieved.
1. Shostakovich
2. Bartok
3. Bach
4. Beethoven
5. Messiaen

To round out the top 10....
6. Brahms
7. Debbusy
8. Ravel
9. Stravinsky

Played viola for almost 20 years in my early days and I'd say this is my list already posted.... just might put Stravinsky in at #5 ... but I do love Tchaikovsky.... great picks....

1.rachmaninov
2.bach
3.beethoven
4.schastakovitsch
5.liszt

Top 5 in terms of how many plays they have on my computer (Seemed the best way to decide), YouTube to make it more exciting:

1. Karlheinz Stockhausen

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2. Anton Webern

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3. Charles Ives

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4. Gustav Mahler

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5. Igor Stravinsky

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Hindemith
Prokofiev
Desprez
Bruckner
Bach

^ Josquin, really? Nothing wrong with it- just interetsing.