Anyone into classical music I just want to know who your favourite composer is and your favourite piece.

My favourite composer is Modest Mussorgsky and his fabulous piece "Night on Bald Mountain" but it has to be the rimsky-korsikov version.

Oh and I really really really hate Mozart 

Crumbso

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...don't forget the LittleBirds!

My all-time favourites are Sir Edward Elgar, followed by  J.S.Bach, G.F.Handel, Mozart, Pachabel, Henry Purcell, John Dowland, etc....
...because...
I play their pieces on my piano, harpsichord, lute, guitar, recorders, flute, etc...
Me...
A man of many instruments... ...!
..and a love of Classical music...

Cheers...
Paul.
(England).

P.S. ...I'm also a great fan of Jimy Hendrix... 8)...!
(I can also play a cool Fender Stratocaster)... ...!

When played properly, there is nothing which can compare to the William Tell Overture..........

Hi-Yo Silver.................away !

J.S. Bach - Absolutely the father of western music.

Vivaldi - Would Bach have been as great without him?

Wagner - Revolutionized opera.  Too bad it died immediately thereafter.

Beethoven - Overrated but nice symphonies.

Mozart - Everything he touched sounds great.

Can't say I'm into bach and all that baroque stuff myself but I can see why people do.

I have to disagree about the mozart I'm sorry but aaaargghh it irritates me its sooooooo fancy and decorational. It sounds so simple like any of his violin pieces but bloody impossible to play. Of course you're entitled to your opinions.

I see Wagner is popular I like it but only if it is the purely instrumental version when people sing I believe it ruins it.

I have always been partial to a bit of Rachmaninov especially prelude in G minor (op.23 no.5) If you aint heard it listen to it nice an bouncy rythnm thats pure genious.

Just out of interest how many of you have heard  Night on Bald Mountain?

Awaiting replies.

Crumbso



Oh yeah and how old are you guys? cause it would be nice to see some younger people who like the classical music.

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You'll find this alot. People being quite familiar with a piece because it has been in a famous movie or TV show but not realising what it is.

For example: William Tell Overture = The Lone Ranger Theme
Most people would recognise Fluer D'elise
Also one of my favourites "Morning Mood" would be recognised by most people as it has been used thousands of times.
Television adds seem to have been using "Gillbert & Sullivan" pieces for ages and most people would recognise parts of HMS Pinafore or The Macardo, although the words they know would be different.  

Of course there is also Strauss' Blue Danube. Alot of people may even know it's name when they hear it.................lol

It's was an insiduous plot by hard core classicists to get people to like classical music .... I admit - the cartoons got my "hooked on classics" and from there ...

Suffice it to say that I listen to a variety of music, not necessarily classics, but "Barren Rocks of Aden" is a  nice tune.  Now if my wife would let me buy a chanter ...  I tried to convince her that there's Andalusian blood in my ancestry, but she says no to bagpipes...



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