Favourite classical composer/artist

Ivan Padovec, his Poloneza is awesome, I learend to play it on my guitar, it sounds like an older version of He's a Pirate, composed by Hans Zimmer, Padovec composed it in 1843, he also invented a 10 strings guitar.

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Smetana

I have no idea if he's popular or not, but Ma vlast is incredible. Especially the second poem, Vltava,

PannicAtack

Bedrich Smetana is pretty much a national treasure back in my home country Czech Republic. Like to the point where even the most uneducated person would know him.

[QUOTE="muller39"]If you have seen Shutter Island you would of heard this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rluU6BGpKw It's one of my favourites of his.pianist

I've never heard of that fellow. Do you know when he wrote the piece? It bears a strong resemblance to this work by Hans Zimmer. You hear the primary melodic motive in the strings.

ahh thread, i heart you so.

*watches my favourites list approach the 650 cap*

Also to answer OP's question, MAHLERRRROfficial_Rater

Oh lawd, I'm listening to Symphony No. 2 as soon as I get home.

That'd be the fellow in my avatar - Johannes Brahms. But there are many composers that I deeply respect in this field, obviously.

pianist

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Smetana

I have no idea if he's popular or not, but Ma vlast is incredible. Especially the second poem, Vltava,

Nifty_Shark

Bedrich Smetana is pretty much a national treasure back in my home country Czech Republic. Like to the point where even the most uneducated person would know him.

If you have seen Shutter Island you would of heard this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rluU6BGpKw It's one of my favourites of his.muller39

I don't really have a single favorite, but I've been listening to Bartok recently, so I'll say him for now. Here are some pieces that he wrote....

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I don't know how popular the Guild Wars composer is, but he is pretty good.

SupaKoopaTroopa

There's quite a few I like, although I have to admit my knowledge of CIassical music is very limited, because the genre is so massive and complex that going really in-depth with even a single composer is a really daunting prospect.

I've always enjoyed Nietzsche, maybe more so than his actual philosophy.

I don't really have a single favorite, but I've been listening to Bartok recently, so I'll say him for now. Here are some pieces that he wrote....

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JonnyEagle

I love Bartok's "folk" music, it's fatastic. I recently listened to this piece in my composition cIass and my jaw literally dropped. The rest of his work, unfortunately, I don't really enjoy very much; I'm more of a Romanticism kind of guy, I still can't get into 20th century CIassical music. :(

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I don't know how popular the Guild Wars composer is, but he is pretty good.

kdawg88

I've listened to a decent amount of classical music, and i have found that almost no classical music is good other than movie music and a few random exceptions. There is no intensity, no story, and no memorable melodies in most classical music. So my vote goes to John Williams.

I've listened to a decent amount of classical music, and i have found that almost no classical music is good other than movie music and a few random exceptions. There is no intensity, no story, and no memorable melodies in most classical music. So my vote goes to John Williams.

hoola

I've listened to a decent amount of classical music, and i have found that almost no classical music is good other than movie music and a few random exceptions. There is no intensity, no story, and no memorable melodies in most classical music. So my vote goes to John Williams.

hoola

Intensity

Story

Melody

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I've listened to a decent amount of classical music, and i have found that almost no classical music is good other than movie music and a few random exceptions. There is no intensity, no story, and no memorable melodies in most classical music. So my vote goes to John Williams.

Lonelynight

Intensity

Story

Melody

Wagner is, however, extraordinarily intense, and his music is astoundingly powerful, even if he can't write librettos worth crap.

Other than that, I completely agree. If you say there's "no intensity, no story, and no memorable melodies in most ****cal music," then you don't know ****cal music.

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I've listened to a decent amount of classical music, and i have found that almost no classical music is good other than movie music and a few random exceptions. There is no intensity, no story, and no memorable melodies in most classical music. So my vote goes to John Williams.

PannicAtack

Intensity

Story

Melody

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Intensity

Story

Melody

LiedVonDerErde

Here are several examples I think illustrate my point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4x_mXNJ-3w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2yrDWEoCpc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPteIR4Qaog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3scGj809zk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1trE3ms3AGo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mta3-sGMi5Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0juO-brZ_I(okay, maybe not melody so much in that one)

[QUOTE="LiedVonDerErde"][QUOTE="PannicAtack"] I'd disagree about Wagner. That guy was a terrible dramatist. You want a composer who can tell a compelling story, look at Verdi, Puccini, Mussorgsky, Mozart, or Menotti. Other than that, I completely agree. If you say there's "no intensity, no story, and no memorable melodies in most classical music," then you don't know classical music.PannicAtack

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[QUOTE="LiedVonDerErde"]'Wagner has some great moments, and some very boring half-hours' says it best, I thinkLiedVonDerErde

I've listened to a decent amount of classical music, and i have found that almost no classical music is good other than movie music and a few random exceptions. There is no intensity, no story, and no memorable melodies in most classical music. So my vote goes to John Williams.

hoola

The thing is that cIassical music doesn't land in your lap. It's not immediately accessible in the way that popular music is, and you have to dig deeper into it to recognize just how incredible it is as an art form. Want intensity? Try this. Or this. Or this. Want memorable melody? Ever heard this before? Or this? Or maybe this? This? This? You may not like them... doesn't matter. To argue they aren't memorable is to deny reality. Even people who know nothing at all about cIassical music have heard and remember these melodies. Needless to say there are countless others I could list, but why bother? I think you know the truth.

As for BEAUTIFUL melodies, cIassical has that covered too. Give me this or this or this any day over the motivically repetitive, metrically rigid, bar-line inhibited melodies you so often find in popular music. Well-written cIassical melodies go somewhere, evolving and developing. And no story? Ironically, cIassical is the only music I know that actually does present a story with form. No words required. But if you don't understand form, obviously you won't be able to take part in the musical journey. And since opera and program music also fall under the cIassical umbrella, the suggestion that there is no story in cIassical music is instantly rendered false.

Frankly, I don't really care if you enjoy the music or not, but let's not go making patently false and easily refutable claims about it.