Who is your favorite composer of classical music and why?

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It's all about Beethoven. Beethoven is, for me, the epitome of human expression. I love Bach and Haydn, but it’s all about Beethoven.

He was a futurist; he realized that he could not emotionally suppress his music. He was able to metamorphose his themes like no other composer in history. He didn’t ’break the rules’ as so many people like to say.

That’s an inaccurate declaration. What he did do was expand musical/emotional vocabulary for everyone that followed him. S piano music was written for the piano even before a more modern piano-forte was really developed, almost as if he could see the future.

Using Haydn’s model and years of practice he perfected the string quartet. He mastered the Symphony. He didn’t let time limits be his guide for completing his music.

He would sketch and sketch and sketch ’til his heart was content. S art was what kept him alive. He did everything he could to overcome his hearing problems (the misconception is that he was completely deaf during his entire career, but he actually had good and bad days and didn’t go completely deaf until later in his life - 1814 or so?) he didn’t let that stop him.

The one thing he needed as a musician he lacked, but even that couldn’t stop him. He tapped into just about every musical medium: Songs, Opera, Symphony, Chamber (Piano Trios, String Quartets, Wind Ensemble, Violin/Cello sonatas, etc), Oratorio, Solo Piano, Concerti, et cetera. He even transcribed some of his music for other instrumentation (Violin Concerto for Piano, Piano Sonata No.

9, Op.14 transcribed for String Quartet H.34, etc). It just seems like I identify very strongly with Beethoven's works like no other composer. I may not be in the mood for Bruckner, Wagner, Debussy or Messaien, but I seem to just about always be interested in Beethoven.

Sources: My CD collection therion_6's Recommendations Beethoven Lieder (Songs) Great set! Complete Beethoven Edition, Vol.16: Lieder Amazon List Price: $38.98 Used from: $377.41 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations Beethoven's Oratario Opus 85 Great work if you are unfamiliar with it! Beethoven: Christus am Olberge Amazon List Price: $21.98 Used from: $11.86 therion_6's Recommendations My favourite Beethoven Quartet Cycle.

You can hear the H.34 arrangement on Naxos' Kodaly recording which is a great treat! Beethoven: String Quartet, Op.130; Grosse Fuge, Op.133 Amazon List Price: $9.98 Used from: $5.75 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Beethoven: String Quartets Op.74, Op.95 Amazon List Price: $9.98 Used from: $3.99 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Beethoven: String Quartets, Op.127 in Eb & Op.131 in c# Amazon List Price: $9.98 Used from: $4.61 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) Beethoven: String Quartets, Opp.59/2 & 59/3 Amazon List Price: $9.98 Used from: $3.94 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Beethoven: String Quartets Amazon List Price: $9.98 Used from: $7.53 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Beethoven: String Quartets Op.132 And H.34 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations The best modern instrument Beethoven completed cycle for me is Gunter Wands RCA recording, however, a new cycle is being completed now by Osma Vanska & the Minnesota Orchestra which has a clarity of the instruments that I have heard in NO OTHER recording of the Beethoven Symphonies! A MUST HAVE COLLECTION!

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.1-9 (Box Set) Amazon List Price: $39.98 Used from: $31.61 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 5 reviews) Beethoven Symphonies Nos.1 & 6 Hybrid SACD Amazon List Price: $20.98 Used from: $16.71 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Beethoven: Symphony No.9 Hybrid SACD Amazon List Price: $20.98 Used from: $12.49 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 9 reviews) Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 5 Amazon List Price: $20.98 Used from: $12.00 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 13 reviews) Beethoven: Symphony Nos.3 & 8 Hybrid SACD Amazon List Price: $20.98 Used from: $12.00 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 8 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations A great FIDELIO recording! I love it! Beethoven: Fidelio Amazon List Price: $23.98 Used from: $19.76 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 32 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations A wonderful recording of Beethoven's Op.29 String Quintet!

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quintet Op.29 & Rare Works for Strings Amazon List Price: $24.98 Used from: $14.90 therion_6's Recommendations Harnoncourt has a great Symphonic cycle out as well as the 5 Piano Concerti, Triple Concerto and Choral Fantasy! Beethoven-Harnoncourt: 9 Symphonies Amazon List Price: $67.98 Used from: $37.99 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 13 reviews) Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.1-5 Amazon List Price: $50.98 Used from: $17.39 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 9 reviews) Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Rondo in B flat; Choral Fantasy Amazon List Price: $16.98 Used from: $8.25 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 5 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations A wonderfully powerful recording of the Missa Solemnis, Op.123 coupled with Mozart's Great Mass in C minor. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op.123; Mozart: Mass in C minor, K.427 "The Great" Amazon List Price: $17.98 Used from: $7.69 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations A fantastic recording of the complete Piano Trios!

Including my favourite Op.1, No.1! Beethoven: The Piano Trios Amazon List Price: $39.98 Used from: $27.85 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 12 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations If you like the darker, more austere Beethoven, I suggest Kovacevich! AMAZING Cycle of the 32, plus the two sets of Bagatelles.

My favourite is Andras Schiff's newer recordings on emi! Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas; Bagatelles Op.119, Op.126 Amazon List Price: $98.98 Used from: $57.85 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 11 reviews) Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol.4: Sonatas Opp.26, 27 & 28 Amazon List Price: $17.98 Used from: $9.44 Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol.5 (Opp.31 and 53) Amazon List Price: $25.98 Used from: $19.38 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Andras Schiff Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Vol. III (3) Amazon List Price: $17.98 Used from: $10.75 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol.2 Amazon List Price: $17.98 Used from: $8.85 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp.2 & 7 Amazon List Price: $29.98 Used from: $12.00 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations My answer to anyone looking for a smoother more lyrical cycle of the 32 piano sonatas: John O'Conor!

A beautiful set. Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Box Set) Amazon List Price: $79.98 Used from: $66.83 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 13 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations So you want the violin sonatas! Check out this recording or for those on a budget get Pamela/Claude Frank's recording!

Complete Violin Sonatas (Dig) Amazon List Price: $50.98 Used from: $29.99 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 5 reviews) therion_6's Recommendations This is the best recording I've found of the 5 Cello Sonatas! I also like Lynn Harrell! Beethoven: Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello Amazon List Price: $25.98 Used from: $14.99 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas Amazon List Price: $17.98 Used from: $7.99 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) .

Because no matter what criteria you want to use to assess a composer, Bach excels all others. Sheer volume of output? I have read more than once that simply to copy all the music Bach composed, it would take a person working a 40 hour week more than seventy years to complete the task.

And yet the volume only scratches the surface of his accomplishment. S work spans the entire range from solo instrument, instructional collections, large scale choral and orchestral works, trios and quartets. He wrote for them all.

Far beyond flexibility, the inner logic, voice leading, harmonic sense, use of dissonance, and the aesthetic beauty of the order of so much of his work is staggering. Bach's work is the acme and epitome of the heart and mind working together on fire. The riches and profundity of his Cantatas, the amazing mastery in his Art of Fugue, the majesty and pathos in his Tocattas and Fugues, the impact of his Well Tempered Clavier on the entirety of both classical and popular music - all of this, very easily and hands down, make Bach not only my favorite composer (classical or otherwise), but also the most important musician the Western world has ever known.

Hope that helps. Best to you..

Mendelsohn... Die Moldau... Midsummer's nights dream. I like his lightness and playfulness...

My head says Bach My heart says Mozart. Both are enormous world-historical talents and I can listen to both over and over, never tiring of them. Bach is more cerebral and Mozart more emotional.

I love them both.

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