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Three of the most prominent composers of classical music. Which is the better composer? Discuss.

Beethoven. His 5th and 9th hit me like nothing else.

Bach...don't really know why...I just prefer his music to Beethoven or Mozart.

KG

Personally, I liked his solo instrument music more than anything else....the only thing I can at this moment pin for Beethoven is the Brandenburg Concertos...and for Mozart, well, there's his "Requiem."

Beethoven. His "eroica" 3rd Symphony is my personal favorite piece of music.

I just remembered: Beethoven's Feur Elise (sp?) That's good, too.

I dom prefere Betthoven, though Mozart's Reqium is good, in facts it's great. I like Bach too he's pretty good/

IG-88E wrote:I just remembered: Beethoven's Feur Elise (sp?) That's good, too.

Für Elise.

Beethoven. Now...which one would win in a no-holds-barred street fight?

verilon wrote:Für Elise.

Yeah, that's it.

I like Moonlight Sonata, as well.

I'm very partial to Bach's fugue in D minor (instrumental not organ).

verilon wrote:Personally, I liked his solo instrument music more than anything else....the only thing I can at this moment pin for Beethoven is the Brandenburg Concertos...and for Mozart, well, there's his "Requiem."

Uhh...BACH composed the Brandenburgs, not Beethoven.

KG

Verilon wrote:Bach/Beethoven/Mozart: Three of the most prominent composers of classical music. Which is the better composer? Discuss.

All geniuses, first of all.

Ok, here's what I think about them:

Bach: brilliantly composed many, many works and made a huge impact on the world. Many of his pieces were written as educational aides for his students and not as a form of expression, which decreases the emotional response from the audience (read: me). As I am a very emotional person, this is an important point. Baroque music was not really supposed to be emotional, so it's not really Bach's fault; what he did he did well. His music doesn't speak to me like other composers' music.

Mozart: unbelievably gifted in terms of composition, wrote many pieces straight onto the page without a single error, and his Requiem is one of my favourite pieces of music. At times, the music seems almost too perfect and therefore lacks (or seems to lack) passion. Same issue as Bach in terms of an emtional connection between listener and song. Music from the classical era has some emotion, but generally not very much.

Beethoven: my choice for the best composer of the three. Beethoven masterfully took the emotionally stagnant typical "classical" sound and poured his soul into it (making him borderline Romantic-era). Many things in Beethoven's life went horribly wrong at around the same point in his life (he started to lose his hearing, he lost the woman he loved, and his nephew who lived with him attempted suicide). He used his music as an outlet to deal with the emotions he was feeling over these horrible events, and so doing, developed some of the most beautiful music ever created. Some of his most heartbreakingly gorgeous music was composed after he was entirely deaf (String Quartet No. 14), which to me is unparalleled genius.

I'd say I like them equally. However, after careful consideration, I've decided that I'll say Beethoven.

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-fgalkin

Definitely Beethoven.

It's a very tough decision, I like all of them, but in the end I voted for Bach. He contributed a LOT to music. There's this saying: God invented sound, Bach invented music.

Neither. My Favorite Composer would be Felix Mendelsohn.

RICHARD WAGNER, Ride of the Valkries, BABY!

I would have to say that out of those three I like Beethoven the best. His music is the most impassioned, and is the best at evoking moods. The others are equally technically proficient, but technicality is not everything in music.

verilon wrote:Three of the most prominent composers of classical music. Which is the better composer? Discuss.

I pick J.S. Bach only because I enjoy Baroque music more than Classical or Romantic era music. All three were greatly talented composers.

I can't choose. They are all great composers. All of the Bachs, Beethoven and Mozart. However, Mozart is a personal favorite for first use of clarinet.

EmperorSolo51 wrote:Neither. My Favorite Composer would be Felix Mendelsohn.

Mendelssohn was an excellent composer.

MKSheppard wrote:RICHARD WAGNER, Ride of the Valkries, BABY!

Hell, yes. I've got that one saved.

Damn it, I can't decide. All three of them are geniuses. I think it's ironic how baroque music wasn't designed to evoke emotion, however it is always used in movies and such when underscoring aristocrats, arrogant people, snobs, pompous people, cold-hearted people, etc. Odd, isn't it?

Also, you need to listen to MORE MOZART if the Requiem is all you can come up with. I can go off on a tangent naming many great pieces of music which Zaia has described as perfect. But I have no time. Off to bed, for me.

It's a toss up between Beethoven and Mozart. I personally like Mozart's 4th symphony above all else.