Any fans of classical music?

[farplaner]

Over the last year or two I have gotten into classical music, and, in fact, I have chosen music (Generally speaking. I'm thinking of going into composition) as my major. I was wondering if anyone out there is interested in classical.

Who are some of your favorite composers?
Is there a particular period you prefer?

I like the variety that began to develop in the romantic period. Some of my favorite composers (as well as Bach) are Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Mussorgsky...

I've been trying to branch out, but once I get into a certain composer I find myself trying to obtain their entire library. I haven't gotten very far into the twentieth century, though I just picked up a recording of Holst's "The Planets." I hear this work influenced a lot of film composers, which seems to be true after hearing it.

[Ramza Beoulve]

Well, I'm a classical music fan n.n, I love Bach's music and also the Romantic Period

[jrgen]

My interested in classical music has decreased lately, but there are still some composers I really like, such as Prokofiev and Wagner.

[Lychon]

Hell yeah bitches...I'm partial to Vivaldi and good old Wolfgang.

-LYCHON

P.S. But Madonna still rules.

[Chaos]

I love Holst's The Planets - am loving turbulent Mars...but I dont really listen to a lot of classical stuff.
I love playing Ville Lobos' Guitar music though, I find it inspiring, also a bit of Bach every now and then.

[farplaner]

Coolness. I just got some Prokofiev sonatas and I have some Wagner Orchestral music.

I've been studying Bach on the piano- his "Well Tempered Clavier" haven't gotten good enough for the fugues yet though...
talk about a genius.

After studying music for a little while it's more difficult to listen to pop music. --Basically nothing but 4/4 time in Rondo form with repetitious phrasing...

[Cid Vicious]

I've alway's liked Beethoven's Furelise and Moonlight Sonata.
And Tubular Bells. (If that's Classical Music)

[farplaner]

By moonlight sonata, I assume you are referring to the first movement, which is what is usually heard? The whole sonata is good. The third movement is really energetic and envigorating: vivace agitato.

[Cid Vicious]

By moonlight sonata, I assume you are referring to the first movement, which is what is usually heard? The whole sonata is good. The third movement is really energetic and envigorating: vivace agitato.

I mean the whole of it. It's about Eighteen Minutes long the one i listen to.

[LunarWeaver]

Hell yeah bitches...I'm partial to Vivaldi and good old Wolfgang.

-LYCHON

P.S. But Madonna still rules.

Yes she does XD

I listen to classical music remixed into techno, which is probably like sickening to classical music fans -_-'

[eestlinc]

yea, I like classical music. favorite composers are ockeghem, bach, beethoven, mendelsohn, bruckner, mahler, shostakovich, schnittke, ligeti, and john adams.

i like to write my own stuff too.

[Hawkeye]

By moonlight sonata, I assume you are referring to the first movement, which is what is usually heard? The whole sonata is good. The third movement is really energetic and envigorating: vivace agitato.

It's actually Presto Agitato, and I just played that movement yesterday at a recital.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I like classical quite a bit, though I like progressive rock a lot more. My favourite composers are Dvorak and Rachmaninov.

[misscleo]

Coolness. I just got some Prokofiev sonatas...

About Prokofiev, you'll want to listen to his ecstatic "Tarantella"- phenomenal! You can play it easily too, possibly. It's my favorite of his http://www.doremifasoft.com/prokofiev.html

[Elite Lord Sigma]

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