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  • #1

    Greatest Composer of all time?

    I don't mean to seem like a Boris-fanboy, but Brahms really is the best.

    You can't argue with good stuff like

    Hungarian Dance 1
    Hungarian Dance 5
    Lullaby
    Academic Festival Overture
    Waltz in A-Flat
    Symphony I

    Etc etc
    45
    J.S Bach
    26.67%
    12
    Beethoven
    24.44%
    11
    Brahms
    2.22%
    1
    Chopin
    4.44%
    2
    Debussy
    4.44%
    2
    Dvorak
    2.22%
    1
    W.A Mozart
    6.67%
    3
    Grieg
    4.44%
    2
    Handel
    0.00%
    0
    Haydn
    2.22%
    1
    Liszt
    2.22%
    1
    Mendelssohn
    0.00%
    0
    Strauss
    0.00%
    0
    Prokofiev
    2.22%
    1
    Stravinsky
    4.44%
    2
    Ravel
    0.00%
    0
    Rimsky-Korsakov
    2.22%
    1
    Saint-Saens
    0.00%
    0
    Schubert
    0.00%
    0
    Schumann
    0.00%
    0
    Gershwin
    2.22%
    1
    Verdi
    0.00%
    0
    Vivaldi
    6.67%
    3
    Wagner
    2.22%
    1
    Last edited by monkspider; October 16, 2002, 16:20.
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  • #2
    Sibelius!
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    • #3
      Wagner!
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      • #4
        No, monky. Brahms is my favorite, but Bach is the indisputable God of Western Music. All bow before his might.

        And Sibelius is damn cool, yes.
        Tutto nel mondo è burla

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        • #5
          Re: Greatest Composer of all time?

          Originally posted by monkspider
          I don't mean to seem like a Boris-fanboy, but Brahms really is the best.

          You can't argue with good stuff like

          Hungarian Dance 1
          Hungarian Dance 5
          Lullaby
          Academic Festival Overture
          Waltz in A-Flat
          Symphony I

          Etc etc
          Gack!

          SYMPHONY No. 4 IS NOT AN ETC.!!!!!

          Tutto nel mondo è burla

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          • #6
            Sorry I left Sibelius off, I was a bit pressed with only 24 choices.



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            • #7
              Re: Re: Greatest Composer of all time?

              Originally posted by Boris Godunov


              Gack!

              SYMPHONY No. 4 IS NOT AN ETC.!!!!!




              Sorry Boris, I have always been a bit more partial to his first symphony. It did take him 21 years to finish it after all.
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              • #8
                Oh, and not to nitpick, but here's changes I would make on the list:

                Drop Grieg, Saint-Saens and Rimsky-Korsakov and replace them with Mussorgsky, Monteverdi and Bizet.
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                • #9
                  Saint-Saens? Who the heck is that? Rimsky-Korsakov? Never heard.

                  Sibelius!
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                  • #10
                    Re: Re: Re: Greatest Composer of all time?

                    Originally posted by monkspider



                    Sorry Boris, I have always been a bit more partial to his first symphony. It did take him 21 years to finish it after all.
                    Symphony No. 4 is the epitome of his symphonic works, and the last of the truly great classical symphonies ever written. Unquestionably his greatest symphonic piece (not counting Ein Deutsches Requiem, ANOTHER glaring omission!)

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                    • #11
                      wheres my countryman Tchaikovsky!
                      I'm 49% Apathetic, 23% Indifferent, 46% Redundant, 26% Repetative and 45% Mathetically Deficient.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Kassiopeia
                        Saint-Saens? Who the heck is that? Rimsky-Korsakov? Never heard.

                        Sibelius!
                        Not knowing Saint-Saens is understandable, he was second-rate.

                        Not knowing Rimsky-Korsakov is a little harder to fathom. Scheharazade and The Flight of the Bumblebee are pretty well-known.
                        Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                        • #13
                          Re: Re: Re: Re: Greatest Composer of all time?

                          Originally posted by Boris Godunov


                          Symphony No. 4 is the epitome of his symphonic works, and the last of the truly great classical symphonies ever written. Unquestionably his greatest symphonic piece (not counting Ein Deutsches Requiem, ANOTHER glaring omission!)

                          Argh, you're always so intimidating to talk classical with Boris. You are just too much for us amatuer classical conniseurs.



                          BTW, I'll still take Grieg over Mussorgsky any day.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Caesar the Great
                            wheres my countryman Tchaikovsky!
                            Hack.

                            (but yeah, I guess he should be there. )
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                            • #15
                              Ack, I can't believe i left Tchaikovsky off. That *IS* a horrible ommission. I had every intention of putting him on there, but it just slipped my mind.
                              A pity we can't edit polls.
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