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So tell me /lit/, who are you favorite composers ?

Captcha : veryli teraturelated

>> No.3080508

The Neptunes, DJ Premier and Hi-Tek.

>> No.3080513

>>3080508
But I was talking about music.

>> No.3080527

cage, webern, tchaikovsky, stravinsky, schoenberg

>> No.3080532

>>3080505
Varg Vikernes.

>> No.3080536

erik satie, charles ives, john cage, some ligeti maybe, the great phillip glass. brahms, ravel, and all the others that go w/o saying ^^

>> No.3080539

>>3080527
>>3080536
>cage

Ugh. You disgust me.

>> No.3080545

>>3080539
>2deep4u

>> No.3080548

Chopin, Beethoven, John Dowland, Verdi, Handel, Samuel Barber

>> No.3080549

OP here, and well /lit/ still confirmed to have way better taste in music than /mu/.

Maybe I should try discussing books on the latter.

>> No.3080550

>>3080539
4'33 is my favourite too

>> No.3080551

No Wagner. The fuck.

>> No.3080553

Bach, of course! Bach is the most badass composer of all.

>> No.3080555
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>>3080551
>Wagner

>> No.3080559

>>3080555
>yfw Nieztsche is a great composer.

>> No.3080560
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>> No.3080561

Debussy

Schonberg

>> No.3080562

Olivier Messiaen, Gustav Mahler, and um ... Tomas Luis de Victoria.

>> No.3080564

>>3080560
Mah nigga !

Liszt is so underrated nowadays

>> No.3080568

Henry Purcell
Gregorio Allegri
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Orlande de Lassus
William Byrd
Thomas Tallis

>> No.3080569
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3080569

These two guys.

>> No.3080572
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Mendelssohn

>> No.3080576

Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Scriabin

>> No.3080578

>>3080572
You like Christian music?

>> No.3080579
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3080579

Schubert
Bach

That's all I need.

>> No.3080580

>>3080578
If it's good

>> No.3080581

>>3080572
>listening to Jew music

>> No.3080582

I would post that list of contemporary European and a couple Asian names again but I can't find it

>> No.3080602

>people pretending to like classical just to appear high culture

Come on. Be real. How many of you really like listening to faggot violins?

>> No.3080607

>>3080602
Come on. Be real. How many of you really like listening to the timeless creations of musical geniuses?

>> No.3080625

Arthur Pryor
Bizet
George Gershwin
Thad Jones

>> No.3080633

>>3080607
OP here, and I really do.

>> No.3080652
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>>3080602

Get the fuck off this board, kid.

>> No.3080654

So, wait. We're only talking about "classical" composers, as in the contemporary definition of the word? What if I wanted to say Chip Davis or Alan Menken? Or Koji Kondo?

Anyway:
Handel
Prokofiev
Rimsky-Korsikov
Rachmaninoff (delicious Romantic Russians)
Holst
Vaughn-Williams
Gershwin
Stravinsky
Korngold
Bernstein (Leonard)
Hisaishi (yes he's film, but fuck you)

>> No.3080661

>>3080633
Those who don't have much to learn about music.

>> No.3080664

>>3080568

We've got a scholar among us.

But

>No ockgehem
>No josquin de prez
>No leonin/perotin
>No Antoine Brumel

Oh well. You get a pat on the back

>> No.3080669
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3080669

Brahms.
He's also my husbando

>> No.3080670

Bernard Hermann
Benjamin Britten
Beethoven
Puccini
Bach
Liszt
Duke Ellington
Michael Nyman
Philip Glass
Dick Higgins
Henry Mancini
Clint Mansell

>> No.3080673

>>3080670
Glass and Bartok are fucking awesome.

>> No.3080675
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>>3080670
>Philip Glass

>> No.3080677

>>3080673

Glass is shit.

>> No.3080678

>>3080673
I only half agree.

>> No.3080683

>>3080677

I saw him in concert, playing piano. It was so beautiful I cried.

>> No.3080684
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I was really surprised when I found out that Schubert made over 1000 pieces of music, he wasn't very old when he died compared to other big-deal composers and a lot of it was written in a pretty small time-frame

>> No.3080686

>>3080664
>We've got a scholar among us.

Hahahahahaha.

>> No.3080690

>>3080684

The lack of Schubert mentions ITT is depressing.

>> No.3080691
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>>3080670

>Clint Mansell

>> No.3080693

>>3080686

Good irony-detector you have there.

>> No.3080694
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This guy

>> No.3080695

>>3080693
You're easily impressed either way

>> No.3080697

>>3080695

>watch me desperately try to save face

lel

>> No.3080703

Scriabin. I get a lot of flack for liking him for some reason.

>> No.3080708

>>3080697
From what? I guess you're easily humiliated too, haha.

>> No.3080711

>>3080695

I guess. I've only met two people in my life who would know who palestrina is and they are old.

I don't believe I'm an expert in music either, like many guys in this thread.

>> No.3080713

>>3080664
I'm still new to this stuff, man. Not a bad place to start, though, right?

>> No.3080716

>>3080703

>flack

What do you mean? He's cool.

>> No.3080717

>>3080602
I actually have to pretend to not like it because of people like you.

>> No.3080724

>>3080713

Don't get me wrong, I'm new to the stuff too. I recommend those guy I mentioned. William Byrd was the first guy I heard and he's still my favorite.

>That 4 part mass

:3

>> No.3080726

>>3080717
I don't, because my friends and family aren't stupid fucking pieces of shite, lol.

>> No.3080730

Beethoven
Brahms
Wagner

>> No.3080737

Bach, Bohuslav Martinu, Beethoven, Debussy, Gesualdo, various Chantilly Codex pieces, Machaut, Wagner, Perotin

I like almost all acknowledged composers though.

>> No.3080732

Bach is like a million times better than anyone who came before him anyway

>> No.3080734

Beethoven and Bartok

>> No.3080741

>>3080716
I don't know. The first time I mentioned him on here, at least two people said I had bad taste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooIt_I1ETpk

>> No.3080745

>>3080732

Yes. But imagine just listening to bach all your life. Every day. And nothing else.

>> No.3080747

>>3080724
Cool. I'll check them out. I think I might have listened to Ockgehem before.

My favorite piece so far is Allegri's Miserere. It's amazing.

>> No.3080755

>>3080745
Not that guy, but I can live with that.

>> No.3080760

>>3080737
>Machaut

Awesome, no one ever says this guy. Probably my fav medieval composer

>> No.3080765

>>3080755
You're either easily amused, or you haven't listened to the Brandenburg concertos together. Very repetitive.

>> No.3080774

Beethoven's my favorite.

Honorable mentions go to Erik Satie, Federico Mompou, George Frideric Handel

>> No.3080779

>>3080765
I won't play by your conditions.

>> No.3080787

>>3080774
I just performed Beethoven's Ninth on Saturday. Shit was great.

>> No.3080791

>>3080787
Wow you must be really talented

>> No.3080793

>>3080765
Like music before Bach is any better

>> No.3080797

>>3080791
Well fuck you too. I bet you're mad that we aren't discussing Skrillex, huh?

>> No.3080798

>>3080791

Yes, playing all those instruments at once.

>> No.3080799

>>3080793

HAHAHAHAHA

>> No.3080808

>>3080787
What instrument do you play?

>> No.3080810

>>3080808

Pink oboe

>> No.3080813

>>3080808
Jew harp

>> No.3080816

>>3080808
The triangle

>> No.3080818

>>3080808
Not that guy, I play cello.

>> No.3080822

>>3080808

Celesta.

>> No.3080824

>>3080793
I quite like Gregorian chants.

>> No.3080827

>>3080818
Not one of the other guys either but I play the clarinet.

>> No.3080832

>>3080827
Not this guy or any of the others, I am a virtuoso heckelphonerist

>> No.3080900

Pokofiev
Bartok
Wagner
Shostakovich
Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky

>> No.3080902

>>3080900
how could I forget Mahler!

>> No.3080904

>>3080559
>Implying Nietzsche had even a tenth of the musical talent Wagner had.

Really?

>> No.3080906

>>3080808
learning guitar now
I play shit-tier piano
I used to play tuba in hs
still play trombone sometimes

>> No.3080907

>>3080904
Nietzsche's criticism of Wagner was apt though. Melodramatic hack.

>> No.3080911

>>3080824
>Gregorian chants
>not Byzantine chants
>1212
>I shigity

>> No.3080934

>>3080808
Guitar, bass (bass guitar and upright bass), violin, piano, French horn, trumpet, drums, xylophone.

I grew up in a musical family.

>> No.3080939

Radulescu.
Mimaroglu.
Lyatoshynsky.
Gerard Grisey.
Schnittke.
Webern.
Xenakis.
Ligeti.
Berlioz.

>> No.3080945

>>3080911
>Byzantine chants
I grew up hearing these enough. The Orthodox Christian churches still conduct mass in modal singing, I personally wouldn't want to listen to it though in my spare time.

>> No.3080999

>tfw only know of Bach and Beethoven from school

Suggestions for someone starting out?

>> No.3081017
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>not a single mention of Stockhausen

>> No.3081022

Xenakis
Schnittke
Feldman
Scelsi
Ligeti
Berio
Braxton
Berg
Ives
Scriabin
Satie
Romitelli

>> No.3081023

>>3080939
>Berlioz

mynigga.jpg

>> No.3081026

Lately it's been Dvorak and Rachmaninov.

>> No.3081027

>>3081017

You could say the same of Dvorak or however you spell it.

>> No.3081031
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3081031

>control f gurney
>no results
IVOR GURNEY
George Freddy "mothafucka" Handel
Krzystof Penderecki
Jules Massenet
King Alfonso X
Hildegard von Bingen

>> No.3081059

>>3080787
Nice! What, specifically, were you playing/singing?

>> No.3081063

If we're doing the no this or that thing:
>no Mozart, Hindemith, Bruckner, Sibelius, Janacek, Bax, Bach's good kids, Elgar, Elliott Carter, Joey Haydn, Tippett, Medtner, R. Strauss, Schumann, S.Taneyev, Holmboe, Walton, Lutoslawski, Henry Cowell, Miles, Davis, the list could go on

>> No.3081080

>>3080747
Are you me? I've listened to it probably 50 times within the past few months. Sublime is an understatement.

Now I'll have to browse your list and open myself up to some of those you mentioned.

>> No.3081083

Andre 3000
Charles Mingus
William Basinski
Brian Eno
The-Dream

>> No.3081097

>>3081080
Just listened to it on youtube and it blew me away. Is there a specific recording that you'd recommend downloading?

>> No.3081108

>>3080798
Well Liszt did transcribe it for piano. Performing it would still be highly impressive though.

>> No.3081109

Nono
Scelsi
Radulescu
Gubaidulina
Feldman

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3081113

>mfw no one mentions R. Strauss

>> No.3081123

>>3081097
Listening to Ockeghem? Check out the L'Homme Arme/Kyrie. I had to perform it a few months back, it was one of my favorite pieces I've done in a choir.

>> No.3081129

>>3081113
No singer, at least, has ever or will ever agree that Strauss was a good composer. Especially sopranos, what with his Elektra bullshit.
>Hey, let's keep a dramatic soprano shrieking on a high D for a few minutes, that'll show them

>> No.3081130

>>3081123
no, Miserere

>> No.3081137

>>3081130
The one I have is the first result on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh31j6L95Ok

>> No.3081138

>>3081129
>No singer, at least, has ever or will ever agree that Strauss was a good composer
Then singers are all idiots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwyiGKQDWU8

>> No.3081140

>>3080669
Necrophilia, nice

>> No.3081144

Favourites who haven't already been named:
Biber
Nielsen
Langgaard
Buxtehude
Ruders (yes, I love the Danes)
Francesconi
Sessions
Rueda
Schutz
Lawes
Berwald
Schmitt
Weinberg

I don't listen to opera but I've been meaning to change that.

>> No.3081163

>>3081144
Go forth and do so, anon. It's sick shit.

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>>3080654
>Only one person citing Prokofiev
Stay golden /lit/.

>> No.3081186

I feel like Saint-Saens is severely underrated.

>> No.3081187

Oh shit, I forgot to include Eric Whitacre!

What the fuck was I thinking??

http://youtu.be/YDH5R_BgheI
>original Robert Frost lyrics, bitches

>> No.3081198

>>3081138
NO U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1CtCjMyim4

>> No.3081199

>>3081186
Debussy and he famously hated the living shit out of each other. And these days everybody sucks Debussy's dick, so that's probably why you might hear bad talk 'bout mah man Saint-Saëns.

Then again, it could also be more to do with everyone writing him off as a kid's composer or something, since his most famous work is still "Carnival of the Animals."

>> No.3081206

>>3081199
Chopin and Liszt despised each other and everyone is on Chopin's dick, but Liszt still gets his due. Also, I never really saw Carnival of the Animals as children's music, but instead whimsical genius.

>> No.3081219

>>3081199
I get the impression Saint-Saens could be highly unpleasant to anyone he didn't like, I honestly haven't heard enough of his music to say whether he's unjustly neglected.

>> No.3081705

>>3081031

Yeah, I forgot penderecki. My bad.

>> No.3081709
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Steve Reich, come at me.

>> No.3081718

>>3081206

Saens was a sick bastard. He could sight-read entire orchestral scores and arrange them instantly on his head to play it on the piano.

At least that's what the book I read said.

>> No.3081749 [DELETED] 
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“So many books, so little time.”

>> No.3081755

>>3081063
>Schumann

Too flowery for my taste.

>> No.3081758
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“So many books, so little time.”

How could you /lil/wits not mention this guy?

>> No.3081768 [DELETED] 

>>3081758
Probably because he said
"The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway."

>> No.3081776

>>3081758

Is that frank zappa?

>> No.3081781

>>3080694
My favorite too, bro. At least among the classics.

>> No.3081798
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>>3081776
... who also said
"The people of your century no longer require the service of composers."

>> No.3081806

Duke.

>> No.3081815

>>3081798

The Grammophone changed everything.

>> No.3081828

Where's all the love for Shostakovich?

>> No.3081833

>>3081828
I lost it when he said he'd rather have written stuff like Jesus Christ Superstar. I suppose that he didn't is something of a silver lining to all the state oppression.

>> No.3081834

>>3080904

Wait, are you retarded ?

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For the overwhelmed, Adagio Karajan is a fabulous beginners album into classical, so peaceful, and goes great with codeine.

>> No.3081837

>>3080793

Pachelbel, man.

>> No.3081843

>>3081199
But Debussy also hated Satie (they were friends first) and Mahler. That's not because of him that Saint-Saëns is underrated.

>>3081206
But they did love each others music.

>> No.3081848

>>3080684
Vivaldi
Bach
No idea
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Rossini
Schubert
No idea
Chopin
No idea again
Liszt
Wagner
Verdi
Saint-saens?
Tchaikovsky

Can anybody help me to complete the list?

>> No.3081866

>>3081848
>>3081848
Vivaldi
Handel
Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Rossini
Schubert
Mendelsohn (?)
Chopin
No idea
Liszt
Wagner
Verdi
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Debussy
Don't know who the 3 are on the end.

>> No.3081876

Haydn and Ravel

>> No.3081882

Respighi, Dvorak, Bach, Biber, Vivaldi, Marais, Pachelbel, Tartini, Palestrina, Queen, Operas from Mozart, Verdi, Pucinni and the first album from New Trolls,

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>>3081866
>Don't know who the 3 are on the end
Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim and Brahms

>> No.3081904

>>3081848
>>3081866
Oh and the one before Liszt is Robert Schumann, Clara's husband

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>>3081206
>Chopin and Liszt despised each other
According to some guidebook I have for composers it reads that Chopin was "...an inveterate snob" and was obsessed with trying to look and act as classy as possible. I love collecting books about composers, their personal lives were totally ridiculous...

>>3081140
Mendelssohn can be your waifu

>> No.3082328

Mahler

>> No.3082339

Frusciante, King, Satriani, Hendrix, Clapton, Vai.

>> No.3082364

Maurice Ravel, Eric Satie and Alexander Borodin.

Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Brahms ae cool too.

I don't really like Beethoven and Mozart.

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>>3081922
Oh Mendelssohn, y u so moe?

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>>3081113

>> No.3083442

>mfw no protopopov

>> No.3083484

>>3082339
who the fuck are those people

>> No.3083523
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What's up, guys?

>> No.3083556

beethoven and don gillis.

>> No.3083576

>>3083523
I love Mahler.

>> No.3085208

>>3083576
This

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>>3080505
metal fingers
youmad?

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>> No.3085243

>>3085238
>>>/mu/

>> No.3085251

>>3085243
>this thread
>/mu/

I know its filled with it, but pseudo-intellectualism isn't actually the name of this board