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ALoveSupreme:
I think if we're not going to distinguish the different time periods of the classic period of music, a distinction should be drawn at least between "classical" and "contemporary".  Artists like Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Alan Schoenberg and the like really shouldn't be lumped in a classical discussion, at the least because it's very misleading to the musical content and doesn't serve those composers justly (in my opinion)

That being said, I think Shostakovich is overall an excellent composer.  The Planets by Steinberg is a great piece.  Mendelssohn had some great work also. Beethoven had some great string quartets, but pretty much any and  all string arranement sounds beautiful in my book, so maybe I'm not the best gauge on that sort of thing.

pat101:
I luv me sum Beethoven.

(plus many others, I studied music history for a buttload of years)

End If Kris:

--- Quote from: ironoxide887 ---There's a few composers that I feel strongly about:

I Love
Tchaikovsky
J.S. Bach's Fugues
Ives

I Like
Schoenberg
Berg
Reich
Glass
Cage (Sometimes)
Ravel

I Hate
Chopin
Mozart
--- End quote ---


How can you hate Chopin? Come on somewere inside that cold cold heart is sombody that loves Grand Polonaise

Misereatur:

--- Quote from: greenMonkey ---I also enjoy Reich and Glass.

I love Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherezade.
--- End quote ---


Reich is a modern composer. Rimsky-Korsakov is romantic. Beethoven's early works and Mozrt are classical music. Bach and Vivaldi are Baroque composers.

Wait, I'm gonna link a thread about this.
edit: found it http://forums.questionablecontent.net/viewtopic.php?p=306926&highlight=#306926
It was a pretty damn good thread too.

greenMonkey:
I apologize for not being specific.  I just subconciously group these people unde the 'classical' tag, because that is the way society has indoctrinated me, most notably public radio for calling everything they play classical.

Actually though, I really should learn more on the subject.

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