favorite composer

[rumin]

who are your favorite composers?
mine are giuliani, and sor. i really love giuliani. i like his compositions. i play them alot. i also like torroba, ponce, albeniz, bach, beethoven, mozart, chopin and rossini.

[Keelor]

As for me I don't like Giuliani. I often find his works pompous, heavy... http://forums.jeuxonline.info/ubb/freak5.gif

Guitar composers :
I especially like Sor, Villa-Lobos, Brouwer.

Other composers :
Berlioz ! http://forums.jeuxonline.info/ubb/love.gif I hope his guitar works will be found one day...
I also love Dowland, Bach, Weiss, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mahler, Ravel...

[Mikey]

Hey,

Guitar Composers:

Rodrigo, Ponce, Tarrega, Piazzola

Others:

BACH-his talents will never be matched, probably the most amazing composer that has or ever will live!
Shostakovich
Schoenberg
Mozart
Britten
Debussy

Mikey.

[thaddeusb]

Barrios is a great guitar composer.

Tchaikovsky rules. He's a great theme/melody man. Plus, he's russian.

thad

[M. Stephenson]

Bach, Yes, Jon Anderson, Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel (especially his film scores), Lisa Gerrard & William Ackerman.

[rumin]

:D i also like brahms, ravel, castelnuvo-tedesco, brouwer and rodrigo. i think joaquin rodrigo is a great composer.

[Gus]

I think at this time, my favourite composers are (for guitar) Barrios, Sor, Bach and Villa Lobos. I first studied Bach and Sor but have discovered Barrios and Villa Lobos pieces and enjoy them immensely.

[adrian]

Actually, there are some songs of his written for guitar and mezzo soprano which were recorded on Deutsche Grammophon. Unfortunately, it's out of print at the moment.

[ilf]

when it comes to playing my favorite is undoubtly Stephen Dodgson, I can play his music over and over never getting Tired or bored ,always finding a new tema a new chord or melody line with a beauty that strikes me, next to him I think Ferenc Farkas , reginald smith brindle and Franco Margola.

[keith]

not sure if one will do, but sabicas would rank number one since i am a flamenco. for guitar in general, john mclaughlin would have to be considered one of the best given his level of creativity (to say nothing of his overwhelming technique).

[Scott]

Many of the above plus, Boccherini, Duarte, Vivaldi, de Falla

[Keelor]

Actually, there are some songs of his written for guitar and mezzo soprano which were recorded on Deutsche Grammophon. Unfortunately, it's out of print at the moment.

Thanks for the info. :)

But I think that his Variations for guitar
on "La ci darem la mano" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart haven't been found yet ? :(

[adrian]

But I think that his Variations for guitar
on "La ci darem la mano" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart haven't been found yet ? :(

Thank YOU for the info too. I didn't know he had written Mozart variations. Neat!

Adrian

[dennis]

There are a lot of great ones mentioned so far. Some of my favorites are the impressionistic composers like Satie, Ravel, Debussy, and Mompou too. But Bach, DeMurcia, Dowland, O'Carolan and other early composers are amazing to listen to as well. It would have been wonderful to hear them all play in their day. I like Chopin a lot too. Naxos did a complete recordings a while ago that was excellent. Their guitar recordings are great too. I also like a lot of contemporary composers too, like Bogdanovic, York, Garcia and one of my absolute favorites is Ralph Towner. Any other Towner fans out there? GSP put out some of his solos recently and that's been taking up a lot of my practice time. Oh yeah, can't forget Tarrega from this list, either.

[Sean]

7 of which I spent on the road as a professional, I still think Mario Castelnuevo Tedesco was the greatest of the (what I call) "Segovia" composer--those who wrote for the man; Ponce was a distant second. I've recently discovered the music of Roland Dyens and Jorge Cardoso. But my favorite composer for the guitar remains Leo Brouwer.

sean

[Pepe Vergara]

First place: Fernando Sor, of course
Second: Francisco Tarraga
Third: Agustin Barrios (Mangore)
Fourth: Gaspar Sanz
Fifth: Villalobos
Sixth: Mr. Anonymous (who wrote MI FAVORITA and ROMANCE DE AMOR)

[Yuk]

To Keelor: Regarding that set of variations on Mozart's La ci darem la mano, I think what you are referring is to is actually Jan Nepomucen de Bobrowicz's "Variations Brillantes sur un duo de l'opera Don Juan", op.6. It's published by Editions Orphee http://www.orphee.com/solos/bobrow.html . Berlioz didn't write a set of variations on this theme to my knowledge.

[Keelor]

To Keelor: Regarding that set of variations on Mozart's La ci darem la mano, I think what you are referring is to is actually Jan Nepomucen de Bobrowicz's "Variations Brillantes sur un duo de l'opera Don Juan", op.6. It's published by Editions Orphee http://www.orphee.com/solos/bobrow.html . Berlioz didn't write a set of variations on this theme to my knowledge.

Interesting... Thanks, I didn't know this piece... But I wasn't talking about this one. :D

I am referring to "Variations pour guitare
sur "La ci darem la mano" de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", composed in 1828 by Hector Berlioz.
Problem : the score has been lost. :(


This site (http://alambix.uquebec.ca/musique//catal/berlioz/berh.html) lists all Berlioz's works.

The reference of the variations is H 30.

[Yuk]

The Bobrowicz is a virtuosic and fun work. Should make a good alternative to hearing *yet another* performance of Sor's Variations on a theme of Mozart :)