This is just a quick poll to see who is everyone's favorite composer, and maybe what their favorite piece by that composer is. My personal favorites are practically anything by Grieg or Bizet and the most well-known piano pieces by Beethoven - 1st mvnt. Moonlight Sonata & Fur Elise.

My favourite composer is Franz Liszt and favourite piece is the well famed "Dance Macabre".

Colonial Song (for Wind Band) by Percy Grainger

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Grainger and Philip Sparke (wind orchestra pieces only)

Bach...and i know he's not classical but they dont exactly have a baroque forum here so thats my favourite

Goodness, there are so many good ones...I love to perform anything by Percy Grainger (I had fun with a winds/percussion arrangement of Molly on the Shore). Copland, Bernstein, and Gershwin are my favorites from the States (Rhapsody in Blue is such a wicked-awesome piece to listen to), and I like Rachmoninoff, Prokofiev, Bartok, Strauss, Dvorak, and Griffes. My tastes are mostly Romantic and Modern.

I like Gershwin,too. There is the opera that I like very much. it's " An American in Paris" that is a musical with the music by Gershwin.
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i dont know why, but i just cant go past sibelius. he just sets it off for me :P

1. J.S. Bach
2. W.A. Mozart
3. F. Chopin
4. F. Liszt
5. J. Brahms

1. mozart
2. arthur foote
3. vaughan williams
4. koechlin
5. delius

BEETHOVEN!

Poulenc has to be one of my favourites

<3 teh Chaminade and Poulenc

My favourite composer is difinitely Claude!

(Debussy!)

I absolutely love Arabesque and the Golliwog's cakewalk!

I also like Beethoven (Ludwig) and Mozart (Wolfgang)...

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I dunno if anyone's heard of this guy, Joe Hisaishi? He composes the soundtracks for Studio Ghibli anime films, like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle. His songs has this special element to it. He loves the combination of oboe, bassoon and flutes. The clarinet always play the "bad guy" tune. Try to find this arrangement, "Animation Songs Medley". Beautiful song.

And Nubuo Uematsu, the composer for Final Fantasy. He rocks.

I guess the music I listen to are mostly from film composers. Hehe.

I love any song composed my Chopin (Fantasie Impromptu). But, I agree with well-known Beethoven pieces, such as Fur Elise. Clementi has some fun sonatinas!