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One of my greatest comforts in life is music. I'm curious about who your favorite composers are. Here are my top 10 (in terms of my favorites-I would have a different list if asked to name the top 10 I believed to be the greatest).
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Beethoven
Mozart
Rakhmaninov
Dvorak
Tchaikovsky
Haydn
Bach
Schubert
Chopin
Brahms
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1.Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2.Ludwig Van Beethoven
3.Johann Strauss Jr
4.Georg Friedrich Handel
5.Gioachino Rossini
6.Franz Schubert
7.Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
8.Georges Bizet
9.Franz Joseph Haydn
10.Henry Purcell
Just missing out. William Byrd and Antonio Vivaldi
Now how about some favorite works by each.
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Beethoven: Symphony no. 7, Piano Concerto no. 5,
Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 24
Rakhmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 and 3
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto no. 1
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Bach: Air on the G String: Jesu, Joy of Mans's Desiring
Schubert: the last three piano sonatas,
Chopin: "Heroic" Polonaise
Brahms: Violin Concerto
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I'm a works, not composer guy.  For non-liturgical music, in "as I recall" order: Mahler: Symphony 9 Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Mahler: Symphony 6 Beethoven: Symphony 3 Beethoven: Symphony 7 Beethoven: Late Piano Sonatas (110 is especially good) and Late String Quartets Berg: Violin Concerto Wagner: Tristan & Isolde Bach: St. Matthew's Passion Mozart: Requiem Mass (this IMO is not appropriate for Liturgy, not withstanding its name and its prior use at funerals) Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Mozart: Magic Flute Debussy: La Mer Liturgical music is a whole different kettle of fish..... Palestrina, Byrd are among my favorite "named" Latin composers
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Phillip Glass, especially "Einstein on the Beach"
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Tchaikovsky. Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Symphony No 6 Pathetique, Symphony No 4, Sleeping Beauty, 1812 Overature.
Beethoven. Symphony No 9, Symphonies 5,6,8, Moonlight Sonata, Missa Solemnis, Piano Sonata No 8 Pathetique.
Strauss Jr. Countless shorter pieces i,e Kunsterleben, Im Krapfenwald, Unter Donner und Blitz, Wiener Blut, An Der Schonen Blauen Donau, and Die Fledermaus.
Handel. Messiah, Saul, Israel In Egypt, Water Music, Royal Fireworks Music.
Rossini.Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Guillaume Tell, La Gaza Ladra, Semiramide.
I'll get the other 5 later.
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My top 10:
Bach (esp. Mass in B Minor & Concerto for two violins in D minor)
Wagner (especially "Tristan and Isolde")
R. Strauss (Four Last Songs, Also Sprach Zarathusra, Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra)
Beethoven (especially the 9 symphonies & Fidelio).
Mahler (especially the 3rd and 5th symphonies)
Puccini (La Boheme, Tosca, Turandot, Madame Butterfly)
Bruckner (especially symph. 8, the Motets, and the Masses)
Rachmaninov (piano concertos 2 & 3)
Poulenc (various piano works; "Dialogue of the Carmelites", Stabat Mater)
Bartok (Concerto for Orchestra, String Quartets)
[Honorable mention goes to Schubert, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Piazolla, Gershwin, Dvorak, Mussorgsky, Rossini] (All of them first rate!)
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Slava Isusu Khrestu Numero Uno ! Tchaikovsky ( The Russian Easter Overture )! Kolya
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Wagner and Sebelius, Edvard Grieg. The nordic spirit and of course some of my family composers like the Eldegards. Stephanos I Now who wrote Kumbaya?
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The "Rach" - I especially like his Vespers. Bortnyansky, Tchaikovsky, Fedoriw, Leontovich, Berezovsky, Dyletsky, Stetsenko, Dvorak, Ravel, the Rev. Fr. Vivaldi, many others.
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