FabSwingers.com forum: Favourite Composer

By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Time for some fine culture now, what what.

Simply name your personal favourite classical composer AND your favourite piece that they composed

Anyone for Pimms whilst we’re at it?

Off you go

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By *ust ClareTV/TS
over a year ago

Settlewick!

Verdi, the whole of Macbeth

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme ... particularly the first act

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Vivaldi. Can’t believe they only gave that bloke four seasons.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ludovico Einaudi

Nefeli is one of my favourite classical numbers

https://youtu.be/mk7KwxrueRc

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By *ust ClareTV/TS
over a year ago

Settlewick!

"Vivaldi. Can’t believe they only gave that bloke four seasons. "

They found out he was on the fiddle

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By *airytaleOfNewPorkMan
over a year ago

Close By

Anything by Chopin

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By *ohnny4playMan
over a year ago

Kinross

Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade

As a solo piano piece, Claire Dr Lune by Debbusy, much prefer it to the orchestrl version.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams- The Lark Ascending

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Miracle Gro

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chopin, any of the Nocturnes but op.9 probably my favourite

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

"Chopin, any of the Nocturnes but op.9 probably my favourite"

As used on United States of Eurasia by Muse

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chopin, any of the Nocturnes but op.9 probably my favourite

As used on United States of Eurasia by Muse"

Really must look that up...never heard of it before

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

For myself - Mozart; His Requiem especially, is utterly sublime (along with The Great Mass)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hi OP, have to say I love Holst' planets and also Nutcracker suite.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Another vote for Holst's Planet Suite here, but to name something different one piece of music that never fails to move me is Elgar's Nimrod

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By *o_eye_deerMan
over a year ago

The South Near That London

Too many...

Few off the top of my head

J S Bach - toccata and fugue in d minor

Wagner - Die Walkure

Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Can I chuck in two more obscure recommendations also; If majestic, sweeping choral works float your boat, check out Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum. It’s quite breathtaking!

And for pipe organ lovers, a really obscure one - Velos: Descent

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Another incredibly moving piece is Barber's Adaggio For Strings as used in the film Platoon

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By *rbean69Man
over a year ago

Stroud

Hardly original, I know, but Beethoven is my favourite: "Moonlight Sonata"(piano) probably just beats Symphonies 6 and 7 (love that slow movement in No 7).

I listen to much more Mozart, though, as I find his (non-vocal) music is more "easy-listening" than Beethoven's. I can't appreciate B's music fully if I am doing something else, like reading. Does anyone else find this - that Beethoven's music demands one's full attention?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wagner - Shame about the close association with the Nazi party.

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By *azonfabTV/TS
over a year ago

glasgow

Not very cultured or classical I suppose but the soundtrack to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind by John Williams is my goto background music when I need to concentrate / focus creatively.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Curve ball! James Newton Howard, classical instrumentation but film composer, and then the legend that is Hans Zimmer

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By *ust chilled out meMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Auvay Maria sorry about the spelling and I no it's not a composer but still beautiful

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

Some Philip Glass stuff is also worth a listen

The film Koyaanisqatsi based entirely around his score of the same name

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By *eal_curves_is_backWoman
over a year ago

London

Tchaikovsky and Vila Lobos.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Auvay Maria sorry about the spelling and I no it's not a composer but still beautiful "

Schubert.

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By *arkstaffsMan
over a year ago

Rugeley

Anything by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The man was a genius.

The Maguc Flute is a beautiful piece of work.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Getting a little more contemporary but the music Ramin Djawadi composes for Game Of Thrones is modern classical at its best

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By *talian PassionMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

All the Italians of course

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Puccini or Verdi.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends what you call a composer as anyone who writes music is technically a composer, but I feel you mean classical music composer,

In that case I’d say Wargner , ride of the valkyries

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Another favourite of mine is the music from “the good the bad and the ugly” by Ennio Morricone

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

I’ve always had a soft spot for Vaughn-Williams’ London Symphony.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some great music in here,

Something different:

In space, Royksopp

Autumn leaves (remix) Coldcut

Les Nuits - Nightmares on wax

Orchestral sounding but with a more modern twist.

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

Tosca - Vissi d'arte - Maria Callas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have several favourite lighter classical tunes including

Seranata by Leroy Anderson

Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Vivaldi..

And Hans Zimmer

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