Who are you favourite composers?

dewdrop_world · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject:

I'm going through a phase of rediscovering Ligeti at the moment. I didn't always get his stuff when I was in school, but I was listening to the piano etudes last week and it came crashing down on me like a ton of bricks... holy sh Exclamation

, this is the REAL DEAL.

I'm now downloading the DG 4-disc set from ITMS. Should be damn fine.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=203489228&s=143441

Cool

James

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

Ligeti is hot.

I have recently gotten Bachus hooked on Fartein Valen. I suggest you check out some of his stuff.

tony

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Edgar Varese, John Cage, Boulez, stock hausen, Ives, satie,Henry cowell, Harry Parch, Xenakis,
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tarditional Sundanese
Mang Koko, Asep sunandar, marto Pangrawit

Lotus Spray · Joined: Jun 12, 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Washington DC

Any Toru Takemitsu fans out there?

In the last couple of years I have turned into a full fledged (John) Zorniac.

orczy · Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 161 Location: Australia

My alltime favourite classical composers are:

Karg Elert
Delius
Gorecki
Debussy
Sibelius

Some other non classical composers:
Miles Davis
Brian Eno
Harold Budd
David Sylvian

And at present, I really rate:
Skream
Benga
Burial
Kode 9

flowersniffer7 · Joined: Nov 17, 2006 Posts: 53 Location: Allentown PA

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Dead Machines
Set Fire to flames
Shalabi Effect
Diana Behlke
Merzbow
Nurse With Wound
Motzart
Bethoven
Glenn Branca
Wharton Tiers
Richard Devine
Hair Police
Wolf Eyes
Sonic Youth
Stockhausen
Jimi Hendrix (band of gypsies days)
GSGA
et cetera.

phasercs101 · Joined: Nov 11, 2006 Posts: 29 Location: Atlanta, GA

Mouse on Mars

dewdrop_world · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject:

I don't think anyone has mentioned Arvo Part yet. His Passio should be required listening.

In college I heard Spiegel im Spiegel (violin and piano) in a recital and it knocked me out of my seat. There's nothing there... just moving parallel 6ths with adjacent notes of the tonic triad... but it is exactly like meditation. Amazing.

James

Atomsplitter · Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Posts: 10 Location: uk

For me it's Plaid, Squarepusher and Venetian snares

v-un-v · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject:

Oh! Lists. Don't yer just love 'em??

All there seems to be is lists on teevee these days. a recent funny one was top 50 (or 100?) rock and roll hell raisers. Lemmy (of motorhead fame) came out rather well- although I didn't catch who was number one Question

(*The Noonward Race*) · Joined: Jan 28, 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Winnipeg

I like in somewhat order of preference, although I prefer them all over most musc:
John Mclaughlin
Steve Reich
Coltrane
Beethoven
Mozart
Leo Brouwer
DJ Shadow
Hendrix
Mile Davis

I am relatively new to this particular area of music and am looking to explore :-]

http://www.last.fm/user/NoonwardRace/

klangumsetzer · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:59 am Post subject:

hi,

these are my fovourites:

j.s. bach
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w.a. mozart
jimi hendrix
olivier messian
johannes weyrauch
arvo paert

best regards

eike
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Wout Blommers · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

A list is always incomplete, when ever there is no explaining why something is on a list.

Beatles,
for their melodies, musical idea's in pop music and the 'liberation' of the recording studio.

In that respect also Brain Wilson with the Beach Boys and John Sebastian with the Lovin' Spoonful! (A real 'Summer in the City')

Ludwig van Beethoven,
for his ingenious harmonies (The first theme of the second movement - allegretto - of the seventh symphony)

Matthijs Vermeulen (Dutch),
mostly for his attitude towards the snobistic 'symphony loving' public and his concept of music.

Merlijn van Twaalfhoven (Dutch too),
because he does nowadays exactly what Vermeulen was opposing too Smile

Jan Boerman (Dutch also),
because of his beautiful electronic sounds.

Bolland and Bolland (wow... are they Dutch),
because they made just one hit song in which the synthesizer part is still standing strong (their original version of 'You're in the army now'), much better then Carlos or others, which are in a way very dated.

Wout

(Did I mention Bob Dylan, although not strickly a 'composer'?)

seraph · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

Wout Blommers · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:06 am Post subject:

Isn't he?

Van Beethoven is Belgium, but that's in a way Dutch too Laughing

To be a little more serious...
Most Dutchmen don't know anything about the Dutch composers, where other landsmen know their cultural backgrounds. The only Dutch composer (besides Blue Hell) named - Sweelinck - was given by an American (kkissinger). That's why I always add the remark 'Dutch' to their names.

Wout

PS Leo Brouwer, although a real Dutch name, is Cuban, isn't he?

seraph · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:59 am Post subject:

there is plenty of music activity in Netherlands

this one is the best site for microtonal music (for example):

http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/english/index.html

and if the question were: who are your favorite painters? Vermeer, Van Gogh and Mondrian would be on top of my list Wink

play · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:50 am Post subject:

Tom Jenkinson
Beethoven
Prokofiev
Piazzolla
Bach (Who doesn't?)
John McLaughlin
Sibelius
Janacek
Mingus
Ravi Shankar

More the improvisational or virtuoso category but big influences on me:

Camaron de la isla (holy crap!)
Nino Ricardo
Jimi Hendrix

rodge · Joined: Feb 12, 2007 Posts: 1 Location: burnaby

im fairly sure this is my first post. so hi!

heitor villa lobos
antonio carlos jobim

good call on leo brouwer, noonward. although being an idiot savant, and not being able to enter another persons household without swallowing every single pill in their medicine cabinet, the guy was a great writer, and holy hell he could play.

[editor's note: deleted Villa Lobos Etude 10 recording. We don't have a license to host this. --mosc]

seraph · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:15 am Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:44 am Post subject:

rodge

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v-un-v · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:53 am Post subject:

There IS a distinct difference between a "Composer" and a Pop-musician isn't there??

mosc · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:27 am Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:06 am Post subject:

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Kassen · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:25 am Post subject: