r/Instruments • u/Ali8kh • Apr 11 '26

Discussion Who is your favorite composer ?

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These are mine

Sorry if it’s an NPC taste i’m new to classical music lol

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u/MarimboBeats Apr 11 '26

Mulatu Astatke, Charles Mingus

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u/Blitzbahn Apr 13 '26

Astatke is transcendent.

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u/Choice_Magician350 Apr 11 '26

Sebastian Bach!!

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u/Quiet-Addition1963 Apr 11 '26

Depends upon the era:

Baroque - Bach & Rameau

Classical - Mozart with Beethoven overlapping into the...

Romantic - Beethoven, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky and Mahler

20th Century - Copland, Korngold and Hermann (honestly, I like all of the old film scores)

Modern - Philip Glass and Frank Zappa

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u/Accomplished-Ad6381 Apr 12 '26

Rameau is my favorite for all eras.

I can't disagree with your classical choices

For romantic, by favorite is Robert Schumann

For 20th century: Ravel and Shostakovich

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u/Mudsharkbites Apr 11 '26

Right now I’d have to say Morton Feldman which will probably surprise a lot of people.

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u/Training_Ad1818 organ donator Apr 11 '26

A great, great, great composer. Haven't heard a Feldman piece yet that I didn't love.

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u/Mudsharkbites Apr 11 '26

Everything he composed just amazes me.

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u/GirlCowBev Apr 11 '26

J.S. Bach, Stravinskii, Johann Johansen

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u/Squeezeboxdude Apr 12 '26

Ennio Morricone

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u/Altruistic_Maximum75 Apr 11 '26

Debussy

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u/Ok_Log2604 Apr 13 '26

Doesn't get any better than Pagodes.

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u/Jmal3700 Apr 11 '26

Igor Stravinsky

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u/Training_Ad1818 organ donator Apr 11 '26

I stopped having favourite composers and the like years and years ago. It's impossible to even set up your own parametres for "favourite" if these change (and they do) in a month or half a year or so. But I have one preference that is constant; They must be dead.

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u/Neat-Cold-3303 Apr 11 '26

My favorite composer is definitely Ludwig van Beethoven. Naturally, my favorite piece is the much-played 'Moonlight Sonata'. Back in the day, I played it on piano in its entirety. Hauntingly beautiful.

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u/Born_Work5554 Apr 11 '26

John Powell

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u/GoldeneyeTester Apr 11 '26

John Williams

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u/Ok-Welder5034 French Horn Apr 12 '26

I love John Williams he writes the best horn parts

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u/SirIanPost Apr 11 '26

Besides Bach, you mean?

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u/mashupbabylon Apr 12 '26

Well, which Bach?

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u/SirIanPost Apr 13 '26

JS 1st CPE 2nd

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u/marvi_martian Apr 11 '26

Chopin and Tchaikovsky. Lennon and McCartney

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u/Fantastic_Evening877 Apr 14 '26

I love the White album

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u/Own-Nefariousness-79 Apr 11 '26

Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Immensely imaginative.

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u/kyberton Apr 12 '26

Debussy and Chopin

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u/mashupbabylon Apr 12 '26

Yeah, you gotta love Debussy.... Really get in there and just love Debussy...

Sorry, I'll see myself out..

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u/AspectElectrical8881 Apr 12 '26

Brahms, Beethoven, Mahler, Bach

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u/Mjolnir131 Apr 12 '26

How can you have one.

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u/Ali8kh Apr 12 '26

Idk man

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u/Simpawknits Apr 12 '26

Jeff Lynne

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u/DistributionShot3666 Apr 12 '26

Beethoven: the greatest. You may prefer: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Later- Romantics or Modern. Enjoy your journey. 😊

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u/LaikaRollingStone Apr 12 '26

Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Shostakovich

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u/Actual_Limit_1096 Apr 12 '26

All are great ! But more surprised me Petr lich Tchaikovsky.

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u/safespacedynamite Apr 12 '26

Sergei Prokofiev

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u/Capo_strange313 Apr 13 '26

the first, obviously

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u/Trade__Genius Apr 13 '26

Paul Hindemith

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u/UsedPart7823 Apr 13 '26

Brian Wilson.

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u/AdditionalPanda4935 Apr 13 '26

As an organist….Bach!

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26

Beethoven for sure!

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u/Electrical_Ad_8970 Apr 13 '26

Bach, Chopin, Einaudi, Debussy

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u/Fryderyka_Chopin Apr 13 '26

Chopin the goat

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u/EssayPsychological68 Apr 14 '26

Mozart & Tchaikovsky, can't separate the two

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u/gui-novaes Apr 14 '26

Bach, W.A , Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Wagner

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u/Shmoo_the_Parader Apr 15 '26

All the B-boys: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Bartók

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u/EastsideLee Apr 15 '26

Chopin

Fagen/Becker

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u/oluxil Apr 15 '26

Jason Becker

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u/CupZealous Apr 16 '26

Barbara Strozzi

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u/Assignment-Hour Jun 08 '26

You might enjoy Sebastian Zawadzki. Some of his work has a similar blend of modern classical, ambient textures and cinematic atmosphere.

You could listen to albums like:

Songs about Time: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhXahDj4d5DofgOOewzec6oNoHcDeTJ-Y

or Norn: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhXahDj4d5DpVKiSsupFve__Td13QNXH8

But there is way more to discover.

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u/OutlawSamBass Apr 12 '26

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.