Greatest Composer of all time?

[Boris Godunov]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Greatest Composer of all time?

Originally posted by monkspider
BTW, I'll still take Grieg over Mussorgsky any day.

Blasphemer!

Grieg is known for one section of one piece of music he did.

That hardly compares to the contributions of Mussorgsky, which include two perrenial concert warhorses--Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain, as well as Russia's undisputed greatest opera, Boris Godunov

[Traianvs]

You have also left out the great Prokofiev !!!

[Kassiopeia]

The Flight of the Bumblebee

Agh, one of my favourites.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Trajanus
You have also left out the great Prokofiev !!!

No he didn't...look between Strauss [um, monky, which Strauss, anyway?] and Stravinsky.

[JohnT]

At least you had enough sense to leave out those atonal buttwipes, ala Schoenberg, Weber, etc.

Bach gets my vote as "greatest", though Mozart is my favorite.

[BustaMike]

I like Stravinsky. He was the first to really start making some awesome dissonant stuff.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by BustaMike
I like Stravinsky. He was the first to really start making some awesome dissonant stuff.

Dissonance was used quite awesomely as far back as music has existed, actually. Monteverdi's motets were full of it. Bach also had infinite creative ways to incorporate dissonance into his works.

In fact, music theory is built upon the relationships of consonances and dissonances. You can't really have one without the other effectively (consonance without dissonance would be an overly-simplistic nursery rhyme, and dissonance without consonance would be atonalism, which is a failed musical movement).

[monkspider]

Well, I was referring to Johann Strauss II, but since I didn't specify it can be used as a blanket category for all the Strauss'.

[Boris Godunov]

Harumph. The only Strauss who deserves to be on the list is Richard.

[Ming]

Liszt... There was none finer.

[monkspider]

Bollocks, Johann composed "Die Fledermaus ".

What do you think is the best classical music record label Bori?

[Dr Strangelove]

How could you leave out Tchaikovsky?

[monkspider]

I know, I know, it was horrible of me. My apologies Herr Dr.

[BustaMike]

Dissonance was used quite awesomely as far back as music has existed, actually. Monteverdi's motets were full of it. Bach also had infinite creative ways to incorporate dissonance into his works.

True, but The Rite of Spring was a little different than what had been done before. I guess I should have clarified. Obviously "dissonance" has and always has existed in music, but Stravinsky in The Rite of Spring used it in an incredibly powerful way that hadn't been heard before.

I guess I just really like that piece and that's why I voted for him. Just one guys opinion.

[Switch]

I'd have to go with Gustav Holst, but since he isn't there, Dvorak. His New World Symphony was great.

Second, would be Grieg. I love the fourth movement of the Peer Gynt Suite #1. The drama, the suspense!

But Holst mainly. Nothing like the sound of that brass in Mars.