Who are your favorite composers? I may eventually add some to the list as I listen to and play more and more music.
Listed by musical period
Baroque
Johann Sebastian Bach
Carl Phillipe Emmanuel Bach
Domineco Scarlatti
Classical
Ludwiv van Beethoven
Muzio Clementi
Wolfgang Mozart
Romantical
Franz von Liszt
Frederic Chopin
Felix Mendelssohn
Edvard Grieg
Modern
Sergey Rachmaninov
Andrew Lloyd Webber
John Williams
Howard Shore
Hanz Zimmer
Koji Kondo
Nobuo Uematsu
Yoko Shimomura
I'll go with....Me! LOL I like John Williams and Koji Kondo (and Kenji Yamamoto [Super Metroid - Metroid Prime composer] ;D)
oh I forgot about Nobuo! him too! XD
Grant Kirkhope FTW! ;D
Baroque
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Pachelbel
Tomaso Albinoni
Classical
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Mozart
Romantical
Franz von Liszt
Frederic Chopin
Felix Mendelssohn
Carl Orff
Gustav Mahler
Modern
Hans Zimmer
Koji Kondo
Nobuo Uematsu
Yoko Shimomura
Michiru Yamane
Dave Wise
Masafumi Takada
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Koji Kondo, Harry Gregson-Williams.
Le Night shader (http://www.youtube.com/user/NightShader1)
http://www.shademusicstudios.com/
Quote from: Shadoninja on April 30, 2008, 03:15:59 PMLe Night shader (http://www.youtube.com/user/NightShader1)
Composer, not arranger.
Bach, Mozart, Orff, Holst, Stravinsky, Vivaldi, Grieg, and Ravel...just to name a few.
Quote from: G-Han on May 01, 2008, 06:01:04 AMQuote from: Shadoninja on April 30, 2008, 03:15:59 PMLe Night shader (http://www.youtube.com/user/NightShader1)
Composer, not arranger.
he does compose, just not often on his youtube profile.
Shade Music Studios does compose music for games and other things and he has several originals on his youtube account too.
Hmm.. That's new to me then.
Motoi Sakuraba.
Quote from: MasterPenguin on May 02, 2008, 06:28:44 AMMotoi Sakuraba.
He's awesome, but his music sounds alike a lot.
True, but I love all of them.
Quote from: MasterPenguin on May 02, 2008, 06:28:44 AMMotoi Sakuraba.
He's the guy that does the Tales games isn't he? He's good!
JS Bach
A Vivaldi
A little bit of Handel
LV Beethoven
WA Mozart
Frescobaldi
Haydn
Schubert
Chopin
Dvorak
Mahler
Tchaikovsky
Brahms
Holst
Gershwin
Starvinsky
Koji Kondo!
I like...Nick Allevato!!!
wow... uh... a lot of the time i don't like everything a certain composer does but... if i had to choose:
J.S Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin : For baroque, classical and romantic respectively...
Koji Kondo, Motoi Sakuraba, Yuka Tsujiyoko: For video game music...
My fav composers begin with JS Bach and Handel during the Rennaisance music. Classical period Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, Romantic: Rossini, Berlioz, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Chopin, Wagner, Mahler, Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Schubert, Debussy, Bizet, Verdi, Carl Maria von Weber, Brahms, Paul Dukas and many others! Modern: Stravinsky, Ticheli, Bartok, Samuel Barber, Steve Reich, John Adams, John Williams, Gershwin, many big band composers, Shostakovich, Gustav Holst, Danny Elfman, Silvestri, Copland, Eric Whitacre, Alfred Reed, and the list keeps going! i love any composer I have learned from! in the past few years Ive been in college!