1.
Johann Sebastian Bach
158 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari - 3 comments
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Bach changed the musical world for ever like no other. He was the greatest innovator of music of all time. What was before Bach? What would Mozart, Beethoven, Brams, Schubert and all the other great composers have been without Bach? We will never know. Without the inspiration from Bach we will never know what they would have created. Bach's gift to the world is one of the greatest gifts to mankind that ever was.
Added 8 years ago by guest, 0 points
Agree, Bach is the Godfather of all music. Mozart got inspiration from Bach. Beethoven got inspiration from Bach. Bach's influence on the music development is immesurable. Every composer and musician in the world has been inspired by Bach directly or indirectly.
Added 8 years ago by guest, 0 points
The best, the greatest, the one and only
Added 10 years ago by guest, 0 points
2.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
He was born in 1770 and wrote 9 symphonies, 7 concertos, 17 string quartets, 32 piano sonatas, and 10 sonatas for violin and piano. He started performing in public at the age of 7 and started to suffer from hearing loss in 1802. He was already too deaf when he performed the ninth symphony-his final masterpiece.
147 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
3.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart started composing at the age of 5 and considered the most fruitful and influential composer during the Classical era with a total of 600 compositions.
146 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari - 1 comment
Comments:
Not that good
Added 10 years ago by guest, -1 points
4.
Johannes Brahms
Brahms is considered one of the best composers during the Romantic period, a vitouso pianist and he is also regarded as a traditionalist and innovator of music.
116 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
5.
Franz Schubert
Schubert was truly prolific as a composer with approximately 600 Lieder, nine symphonies, liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music
103 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
6.
Maurice Ravel
102 points - added 12 years ago by Laurent -
7.
Claude Debussy
101 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
8.
Franz Joseph Haydn
He is considered the Father of Symphony and Father of String Quartet.
90 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
9.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky composed some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire such as the Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker and the 1812 Overture.
86 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari - 1 comment
Comments:
The third one.
Added 10 years ago by guest, 0 points
10.
Igor Stravinsky
He is considered as the most influential composer of the 20th century.
82 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
11.
Felix Mendelssohn
71 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
12.
Antonin Dvorak
66 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
13.
Richard Strauss
66 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
14.
Gustav Mahler
65 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
15.
Richard Wagner
65 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
16.
Robert Schumann
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17.
George Frideric Handel
64 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
18.
Antonio Vivaldi
55 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari - 1 comment
Comments:
He must be in second place.
Added 10 years ago by guest, 0 points
19.
Frederic Chopin
Chopin revolutionize music and created the instrumental ballade and made major innovations to the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, polonaise, étude, impromptu and prélude.
49 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
20.
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
The Lark Ascending is the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard.
30 points - added 8 years ago by larryco_ -
21.
Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow
He was one of the most famous conductor of 19th century, a virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic Period.
14 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
22.
Arnold Schoenberg
13 points - added 12 years ago by Laurent -
23.
Franz Liszt
He was considered one of the most technically advance pianist during his period.
9 points - added 13 years ago by samutsari -
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