Anyone have a favorite classical composer?

For myself, I'd say Frédéric Chopin. I've attempted many of his pieces which have been transcribed for classical guitar from piano and any trouble I've ever had playing anything else pales in comparison to the trouble I have playing much of his work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqPsG7H0N3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzfmWzNU9XA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8X2jyoW0Fg

I like baroque. It's all about the harpsichord. Couldn't name a single composer, though.

dftg said:

If it ain't baroque don't fix it

Shostakovich

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ogJFXqYEYd8

Wagner.
Tchaikovsky.
Vivaldi.


and a little ludwig van leaves good feeling

Tchaikovsky takes the trophy.

And for some odd reason I absolutely love Pachabel's cannon.

Mahler, Satie, Glass, Reich

Basil Poledouris- Conan the Barbarian soundtrack

Best classical record of all time hands down

Check out a work called the Black Mass by Alexander Scraibin. Really fucking good.

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Slavonic Dances. wonderful shit.

Also, I just found out about this guy Astor Piazolla. He's slightly more comtemporary, but awesome nonetheless. Seen 12 Monkeys? They stole a chunk of his tunes for that movie. baDA baDA bumbadaBAAAAAAAA.

beat me to it.

this guy has been doing a classical radio show since 1982

http://www.wunh.org/index.php?menutype=Sch...en.php&day=1¤thour=18&hours=2

John Cage, Wendy Carlos, Modest Mussorgsky, and Ralph Vaughn Williams

Stravinsky
firebird suite mainly

bennyhillifier

dftg said:

Check out Handel's Air and Variations (the Harmonious Blacksmith.) I'm a big fan o' the harpsichord.

my fave's are Mozart, Ludwig van, JS Bach, Albinoni, Saint Saens, Bartok, just to name a few. not a big fan of Chopin though. a tad too romantic for my taste.

what shoenberg or whatever that worked with off time sequences like the 12th beats and all.

the_reverend said:

yeah!