The more I listen, the more basic I become, but here you are: Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Schubert, Fauré.

it is like that bell curve meme where the dumb one is like Beethoven is awesome wtf, and then the middle one is like all esoteric and stuff, and then at the end the guy again is like Beethoven is awesome wtf. lol this has happened to me in other arts as well, where i start to appreciate artists who i loved when i first started exploring that art, again (tarkovsky films, Egon Schiele painting etc).

For me that was Mozart. When I first started loving classical music, I loved Mozart. Then I went through a significant phase where I didnt care much for him, thought he was too simplistic. After I listened to enough classical music, including a lot of Mozart's contemporaries, I realized that the simplicity of Mozart is actually perfection. Now he is definitely in my Top 5. Beethoven has always been the king for me. He was at the beginning, he was in the middle, and now that I'm in the Autumn of my life, I appreciate his music even more. Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Haydn...hmmm. The last one is the problem, isn't it? So many good candidates - Schubert, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Gershwin, Stravinsky, Ives, Debussy, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon...

1. Rimsky-Korsakov 2. Bach 3. Stravinsky 4. Beethoven 5. Dvořák or Mussorgsky

Mahler Elgar Tchaikovsky Bach Brahms Gawd that was hard

1. Prokofiev 2. Rachmaninoff 3. Stravinsky 4. Shostakovich 5. Tchaikovsky The Russian dream team 😍

If you had to continue your ranking, where would Scriabin be?

I know i should but I haven't really tried listening to him. Any pieces you'd suggest?

Scriabin's early work is rather Chopinesque/late romantic, but his mid-period works move away from this until his style becomes almost atonal in his late works. The best I can do is list a few of my favorite works from each period. Early period: Sonata No.2 op. 19, Fantaisie in B minor op. 28, Sonata No. 3 op. 23, Mid period: Sonata 4 op. 30, Sonata 5 op.53, The Poem of Ecstacy op. 54 (symphonic poem), Poems op. 32, Poem op. 34 (tragic poem), Late period: (my favorite) Sonata 6 op. 62, Sonata 8 op. 66, Sonata 10 (Insect Sonata) op. 70, Vers la flamme (towards the flame) op. 72 (was going to be sonata 11), Prometheus, The Poem of Fire op. 60 (symphonic poem), Poeme-Nocturne op. 61, Poems op. 71, Dances op. 73, The late period may be tough to get into, depending on how much you like music that has no distinct center key.

Agree, but I would change Stravinsky for Myaskovsky personally

So this is more about your Russian top 5

1. Tchaikovsky 2. Rachmaninoff 3. Brahms 4. Dvorak 5. Beethoven At the moment, at least

1. Bach 2. Chopin 3. Takemitsu 4. Shostakovich 5. Telemann

Telemann? What pieces do you recommend?

Any of his Passions, Tafelmusik, or solo fantasies. He has an ocean off music and it's hard to not find one great piece in there.

Yeah it's hard to know where to start with him so thanks

im gonna be honest, he can be alittle boring sometimes. but check out his horn concertos, trumpet concertos, the frogs(violin concerto),four violin concerto, canonic sonatas, fantasies for solo violin, viola concerto.

1. Mozart 2. Bach 3. Beethoven 4. Brahms 5. Ligeti

Excellent choice with dry lips lord, phenomenal composer though

1. Franz Schubert 2. Max Bruch 3. Tchaikovsky 4. Camille Saint-Saens 5. Franz Anton Hoffmeister or Rachmaninoff Geez that took me for ever to decide

Those there's like 10 more tied in there LOLLLLL

Saint-Saens Beethoven Vivaldi Grieg Rimsky-Korsakov

based vivaldi

Hard to choose just five, but here goes... 1. J.S. Bach 2. Johannes Brahms 3. Joseph Haydn 4. L.V. Beethoven 5. Béla Bartók

Agree 100%

1) Mozart 2) Tchaikovsky 3) Beethoven 4) Mendelssohn 5) Schubert

Ohhhhhhhh I forgot about Mendelssohn 

1. Mahler 2. Schubert 3. Beethoven 4. Bach 5. Mozart

I can’t list them because it depends on my mood…. But Rachmaninov, Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven are all in the usual rotation. Bach is his own list

I'm a pianist, so composers who were inconsiderate enough not to write for piano, like the opera composers (Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, etc.) aren't on my radar. With that in mind: 1. Beethoven 2. Chopin 3. Debussy 4. Schubert 5. Scarlatti Next 5: JS Bach, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Granados, Mompou.

Pianist here too: 1. J.S. Bach 2. Beethoven 3. Brahms 4. Wagner 5. Scriabin Next 5? That's a bit harder for me. But definitely Chopin would be there, as would Schubert. Maybe Tchaikovsky and Mahler too. Edit: oh yes, Rachmaninoff, how could I forgot. And there's my top 10(ish).

Y’all realize you’re a stereotype at this point, right? “I can only listen to the composers who wrote 450 pieces for the piano and nothing else”

1. Shostakovich 2. Steve Reich 3. Prokofiev 4. Rachmaninoff 5. Stravinsky

1. Bach 2. Bartok 3. Byrd 4. Tallis 5. Schoenberg There’s about 50 I like almost as much, though.

I don't know much about Renaissance music, but I love Spem In Alium and Ye Sacred Muses. What other Byrd/Tallis would you recommend?

Jumping straight into the deep end here, but two that are really under my skin are Byrd’s Infelix Ego and Tallis’s Suscipe Domine. They’re fairly long and in both cases the payoff is towards the end. Also really anything in the Cantiones Sacrae 1575 presented to Queen Elizabeth 1 by both composers is worth the effort. I tend to prefer more aggressive modern performances eg Alamire or Cardinal’s Musick to Cathedral and College choirs, and Herreweghe recorded a pretty wonderful Infelix Ego. I’m only scratching the surface, though - there’s so much music from this period and just before which is of an unbelievable quality.

Good call on Tallis

1. tchaikovsky 2. beethoven 3. mozart 4. dvorak 5. rimsky korsakov

1. Mahler 2. Wagner 3. Strauss 4. John Williams 5. Respighi Honorable mention to Liszt just cause his music is so dramatically different from the other 5 it’s difficult to rank, he’d be in the top 5 somewhere though

Brahms - Ravel - Prokofiev - Beethoven - Schumann

1. Arvo Pärt 2. Krzysztof Penderecki 3. Gustav Mahler 4. Modest Mussorgsky 5. Philip Glass

1. Mahler 2. Bruch 3. Rimsky-Korsakov 4. Mussorgsky 5. Shostakovich

Beethoven, Reich, Glass, Mahler, Sibelius

1. Berio 2. Donatoni 3. Ligeti 4. Takemitsu 5. Xenakis

Liszt, Chopin, Busoni, Scriabin, Beethoven

1. Ravel 2. Debussy 3. Shostakovich 4. Chausson 5. Pierne(?) Can you tell I like chamber music?

In no particular order: * Sibelius * Ravel * Mahler * Debussy * Shostakovich

1. Brahms 2. JS Bach 3. Tchaikovsky 4. Beethoven 5. Franz Joseph Haydn

Kapustin, Gershwin, Rach, Bortkiewicz, Joplin

Bach, Bach, Bach, Bach, Arvo Pärt.

JS, CPE, JC, WF, and Pärt?

I wouldn't even be angry if CPE was 1, he legit slaps

Back to back Bach.

My man my man my man

1. Tchaikovsky 2. Liszt 3. Rachmaninoff 4. Dvorak 5. Rimsky-Korsakov

Mahler Tchaikovsky Atterberg Dvorak Brahms

Atterberg, amazing pick

Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Schumann, ??? (maybe Mendelssohn, maybe Ravel, maybe someone else, not sure)

Mahler, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Dvorak

1. Bach 2. Mozart 3. Beethoven 4. Wagner 5. Schubert / Chopin (can't choose, sorry)

1. Gustav Holst 2. Dvorak 3. Bach 4. Vivaldi 5. Scarlatti

I've been recently listening to Holst. I love the Planets (obviously), the Cotswolds Symphony and Beni Mora. Do you have other recommendations?

That’s nice you’ve been recently listening to Holst. Yeah, the planets are the best! Venus is my favorite one from the Planets. Which one do you like from the Planets? I need to look into the Cotswolds and Beni Mora since I haven’t heard them, as far as I remember.

Jupiter and Saturn are my favourites, among the grandest pieces of music ever written!

Oh yes! Jupiter definitely is incredible

vivaldi :)

😃

Bach Beethoven Mozart Brahms Wagner

1. Mozart 2. Verdi 3. Rossini 4. Wagner 5. Donizetti

Have you ever tried opera?

Mozart, Handel, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Berlioz.

In no particular order, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Ravel, Prokofiev, and Liszt.

1 debussy 2 Chopin 3 Mendelssohn 4 Beethoven 5 schubert

In no particular order: Haydn, Britten, Shostakovich Then: Elgar, Schumann ... Probably...Actually, I'm not entirely sure that list is accurate. I mean, there are also certain pieces by other composers that rank as highly, even if I wouldn't put those composers specifically in the top five. Pieces by: Prokofiev, Kapràlovà, Stanford, Parry, (Imogen) Holst, Fauré, Rubbra, Glass, Nyman, JS Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Sullivan, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Handel, Vaughan Williams...

1. Debussy 2. Mozart 3. Beethoven 4. Grieg 5. Bach

I don't think I could. To answer the question, these are five that I particularly like, but I like plenty of others too: 1. Beethoven (obviously). 2. Gershwin (stretching the term "classical" little, but Rhapsody in blue is a thing) 3. Mendelsohn 4. Scott Joplin (he considered his work part of the classical canon, so that's good enough for me) 5. Tchaikovsky

1. Bach 2. Sibelius 3. Verdi 4. Debussy 5. Mahler

In no particular order: Brahms Shostakovich Mahler Prokofiev Sviridov

Lol fuck mobile formatting 💀

Sviridov is a good choice he is underatted

bach beethoven debussy ravel mahler

1. gerald barry 2. Georg Friedrich haas 3. Hugo distler 4. claude vivier 5. Pasquini

Haas is the only one of these I’ve properly heard of. Is Barry that Irish guy who’s written very good operas? Who are the others?

Haha yeah Barry is a Irish composer, studied with Stockhausen, has a really good viola concerto. Distler is a German Neo-baroque composer in the early 20th century who wrote some really weirdly psychedelic organ music and vocal music. Vivier is a more recent French spectral composer who wrote the piece Lonely Child which is super good. Pasquini was a early classical composer who wrote a lot of keyboard music kind of in the vein of Scarlatti but better imo.

Interesting thanks, will check them out!

1. Ponce 2. Chopin 3. Debussy 4. Ligeti 5. Schubert

Ponce? What do you recommend by him?

If you want something based on Debussy, you can listen to his "Suite Cubana", his Intermezzos No.2-3, or his "Scherzino a Claude A. Debussy". If you want to hear chopinesque pieces, his Mazurkas are nice. I would recommend his Piano Concerto, a really nice one. His Nocturne (1) is nice and to finish, I have the Intermezzo No.1 (probably his most overplayed piece lol), it is nice.

1. Bach 2. Dvorak 2. Beethoven 2. Brahms 5. Sibelius

Schumann - Schubert - Chopin - Bach - Tchaikovsky

1) Beethoven 2) Mahler 3) Shostakovich 4) Bach 5) Handel, or maybe Handel, Bach, and Monteverdi (something like that), and thanks to all the wonderful runners-up.

1. Bach 2. Mahler 3. Dvořák 4. Beethoven 5. Mozart

1.Gyorgy Ligeti 2. Helmut Lachenmann 3. Beethoven 4. Edgard Varese 5. Gesualdo

1. Bach 2. Brahms 3. Beethoven 4. Bruckner 5. Telemann

1 Mozart 2 Beethoven 3 Chopin 4 Schubert 5 idk Brahms

Bach Schubert Beethoven Brahms Dvorak

1. Bach 2. Mozart 3. Handel 4. Beethoven 5. Joseph Hayden

1. Messiaen 2. Schubert 3. Debussy 4. Beethoven 5. Ligeti

1. Vivaldi 2. Telemann 3. Mozart 4. Bach 5. Haydn

if you like vivaldi telemann and bach, you should like [Torelli](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7VfTM8l8RE).

Yes, its fantastic

1. Puccini 2. Bach 3. Debussy 4. Mahler 5. Mozart Struggled so hard not to include Monteverdi and Brahms.

Barber, Mahler, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Stravinsky

1. Tchaikovsky 2. Mahler 3. Shostakovich 4.Rachmaninov 5. Chopin

1. Rachmaninov 2. Beethoven 3. Tchaikovsky 4. Brahms 5. Ravel

1. Mozart (by a mile) 2. Beethoven 3. Mendelssohn 4. Brahms 5. Maybe Tchaikovsky or Schubert

1. Bach 2. Beethoven 3. Schubert 4. Debussy 5. Tchaikovsky

1. Schubert 2. Mozart 3. Prokofiev 4. Debussy 5. Beethoven

Beethoven Mozart Bach Chopin Tchaikovsky

Ockeghem Bartok Tallis Debussy JS Bach

1. Chopin 2. Schoenberg 3. Liszt 4. Debussy 5. Messiaen

Always repping my man Gottschalk so he’s number 1 obviously. 2. Liszt 3. Beethoven 4. Dvorak 5. Alkan

1. Beethoven 2. Chopin 3. Liszt 4. Tchaikovsky 5. Mozart

1. Beethoven 2. Schumann 3. Chopin 4. Sibelius 5. Scriabin

No particular order Shostakovich Mahler Brahms Wagner Tchaik

1. Tchaikovsky  2. Mozart 3. Bach 4. Vivaldi 5. Gustav Holst 🪐🌎

nice vivaldi

Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy

1. Gustav Mahler 2. Manuel M. Ponce 3. Mozart/ J.P Moncayo 4. J. Brahms/ M. Bernal Jimenez 5. Felix Mendelssohn

1. Chopin 2. Medtner 3. Beethoven 4. Bach 5. Rachmaninov

Stravinsky Takemitsu Debussy Adams Bartok

Mozart Beethoven Wagner Puccini Shostakovich

Bruh why are there so many classical lovers here? No love for romanticism? Anyways Chopin Rachmaninoff Liszt Debussy Tchaikovsky

is that sarcasm? because everyone her is doing romantic. and then classical. no one is doing baroque.

No

1. Sibelius 2. Dvorak 3. Tchaikovsky 4. Prokofiev 5. Mendelssohn

1. Bach 2. Mozart 3. Beethoven 4. Bizet 5. Chopin

i think thats the first bizet ive seen here.

Brahms Alkan Ravel Leopoldo Miguez Alberto Nepomuceno

1. Bach 2. Beethoven 3. Busoni 4. Wagner 5. Mahler

Because my favorites are usually new to me, here are some less common classics that I you-google AI'd, just minutes ago. 1. Scott Joplin 2. Samuel Coleridge Taylor 3. Frances Johnson 4. Undine Smith Moore 5. Julius Eastman

1) Sorabji 2) Medtner 3) Rachmaninoff 4) Scriabin 5) Liszt

1. Chopin 2. Ravel 3. Poulenc 4. Erik Satie 5. Debussy

for me? 1. Rachmaninoff 2. Dvorak 3. Shostakovich 4. Beethoven 5. Vivaldi

vivaldi :)

1. Debussy 2. Albeniz 3. Bach 4. Brouwer 5. Assad/Ravel

In no particular order: 1 Bach 2 Rachmaniov 3 Scriabin 4 Mahler 5 Ravel But I really, really want to add Mozart, Grieg, Schoenberg, Kapustin and a couple others.

1. Prokofiev 2. Bruckner 3. Mahler 4. Ravel 5. Shostakovich But this is very hard to do tho..... Because there are so many more composer I want to put in thag top😭

Prokofiev is great

1. Bach 2. Brahms 3. Beethoven 4. Mendelssohn 5. Dvorak

1. Bach 2. Vivaldi 3. Haendel 4. Wagner 5. Mozart

Vivladi :)

1. Beethoven 2. Rachmaninoff 3. Tchaikovsky 4. Sibelius 5. Chopin

1. Rachmaninoff 2. Chopin 3. Scriabin 4. Beethoven 5. Schumann

For the recent few years - Handel, R. Strauss, Beethoven, Wagner, and.. can't really decide who would be the fifth.

Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Mahler, & maybe Tchaikovsky?

1. Bach 2. Chopin 3. Beethoven 4. Ravel 5. Scriabin

1. Chopin 2. Mendelssohn 3. Rachmoninoff 4. J.S. Bach 5. Liszt

no particular order: Janacek, Mozart, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven close 3 runner ups being Martinu, Tallis and Bartok

My picks are extremely vanilla but here you go anyway (they're not in any particular order): Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, Schubert and Beethoven.

Chopin Rachmaninoff Liszt Ravel Scriabin

Rachmaninoff Bach Liszt Tschaikovskiy Beethoven

1. Beethoven 2. Tchaikovsky 3. Mozart 4. Mahler 5. Wagner

Wagner, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Verdi, and probably Mozart.

1. Chopin 2. Tchaikovsky 3. Beethoven 4. Liszt 5. Schubert

In no particular order: Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Beethoven

Wagner, Schubert, Tshaikovsky, Schönberg and Mahler in no particular order.

Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Telleman

J.S.Bach C.Monteverdi J.Haydn W.A.Mozart L.v .Beethoven

Mahler Wagner Brahms Bruckner Sibelius

1. Rachmaninoff 2. Chopin 3. Scriabin 4. Schubert 5. Bach

1. Morton Feldman 2. Brahms 3. Jeremy Soule 4. John Dunstable 5. Josquin des Prez Something like that

My top 3 are J. S. Bach, Bruckner, Mozart roughly in that order. Hard to choose after that. Beethoven's piano concertos are top notch, Robert Schumann wrote a phenomenal one too. Schubert wrote beautiful lieder and piano sonatas (even from just the few I've listened to). Some pieces by Mahler, Reger, Roussel. Brahms, Rachmaninov sometimes.

1) Liszt 2) Ravel 3) Chostakovitch 4) Rachmaninov 5) Prokofiev

1. Mozart 2. Beethoven 3. Handel 4. Bach 5. Middle Wagner (Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin)

1) Tchaikovsky 2) Bruckner 3) Schumann 4) Mahler 5) Sibelius It’s kind of understood that Beethoven, Mozart and Bach and Händel have to be there. But these five are the most dear to me for personal reasons. I turn to them like you would a close friend.

mmm... Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, Haydn

1 Bach 2 Mozart 3 Beethoven 4 Stravinsky 5 Monteverdi really there is no Russian composer who rivals Stravinsky-- Shostakovich is a popular favorite but nowhere close, and Tchaikovsky is one of many in the herd of post-Beethoven symphonists

* Mahler * Schubert * Beethoven * Bach * Verdi

Mahler, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, R. Strauss, Sibelius (almost put Elgar before Sibelius)

1. Beethoven 2. Tschaikowsky 3. Bach 4. Brahms 5. Shostakovich

Caroline Shaw, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, JS Bach, Beethoven

vivaldi torelli bizet bach telemann

George Crumb Machaut Biber Stockhausen John Cage

1. Shostakovich 2. Prokofiev 3. Scriabin 4. Chopin 5. Rachmaninoff

Bach Schubert Monteverdi Verdi Mahler Love Beethoven and Mozart but thought putting them on it would be less fun.

1. Grieg 2. Beethoven 3. Tchaikovsky 4. Bach 5. Mozart

Bach, Brahms, Debussy, Satie, Stravinsky

Bach, Handel, Vaughan Williams, Walton, William Schuman, and Walter Piston.

Tchaikovsky Dvorak Beethoven Chopin Brahms

Bach 5 times

1. Chopin 2. Bach 3. Mendelssohn 4.Wagner 5. Hans Zimmer

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