Who's your favorite classical composer?
I enjoy Beethoven and Stravinsky... And contemporary works by Phillip Glass. What is your preference and why?
I enjoy Phillip Glass because his work has an abstract beauty that's fragmented but creates a beautiful picture... so brilliant.
I enjoy Beethoven's genius and the solace alluded through his compositions.
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I enjoy the "English country side" that is created by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Many of his compositions have a tranquility about them with lyrical melodies.
Fantasy on Greensleeves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ius8hx63Hso
The Lark Ascending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8
Norfolk Rhapsody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUNe0bkXEIg
In the Fen Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZLgqVCCeVU&list=PL...
This is just a sampling of his restful music.
Antonio Vivaldi: He wrote the most pieces of music that I enjoy.
Johann Bach: He wrote two of my favorite pieces of music ever (Dona nobis pacem from Mass in B minor, and Passacaglia and fugue in C minor for pipe organ-the greatest pipe organ piece ever written)
Beethoven: He wrote very dramatic pieces but also very joyful ones.
Antonin Dvorak: 2nd only to Vivaldi in the amount of pieces I like by him.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: One of the most original composers ever.
bach
both when performed as intended and when shamelessly bastardized as in this example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGd0rRGOeKY