Bach or Beethoven?

Bach 😊

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How about Verdi? Or Wagner? There would be no modern film music, game music or metal without Wagner. Or how about Bizet? The entire verismo movement was kickstarted by Carmen.

Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Liszt, Wagner, Stravinsky, Bartok, Debussy--they were the biggest revolutionaries.

Wagner? You know, the grandfather of modern music?

Wagner and Stravinsky belong on any Top Ten List. And what about Schoenberg?

Mahler should be on the list

Agree for early period but 20th century Had Ravel Stravinsky and Prokovief plus Schoenberg

Mahler, Bizet, and Vivaldi?

Faltaron Bruckner, Mahler y Wagner. Son los que transformaron la música de una forma épica. Como si fuera una banda sonora de una película.

IMHO, I think instead of presenting Liszt, Chopin and Debussy, composers like Mahler, Wagner, Strauss, Gershwin, Schuhmann, Haydn, Schostakowitsch or Stravinsky would have been better choices.

Agreed 👍

These are probably the pillars of classical music. Missing are Mendelssohn, von Weber, Handel, Schumann, Verdi, Stravinsky and Ives among others.

Decent choices. I’m glad that you didn’t try to smuggle Elgar, Williams or Britten in… I would probably have tried to find a slot for a genuine modern composer, such as Stravinsky or Shostakovich.

and stockhausen?

No Haydn????

I would place Haydn where you have Mozart. Mozart composed many great works but works built on what came before. His fame is in writing works that were simply better and more accomplished than others of his day. If he did anything, it was his advancement of Opera that makes him a real creator of change. Haydn, on the other hand, took the symphony and developed it into what we still reconize as the form today. He was a creative genius and no two works in the genre seem to sound the same. He used unusual instrumentation, pulled and stretched the form for his needs, and worked wonders with a provincial orchestra.

Schoenberg…heck, even Scriabin.

you need to list what change classical music through its history and not what people are playing because their familiar melodies or what sells tickets at the box offices ,Bach, Mozart ,Beethoven, Wagner, Chopin, Mahler, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, You may not like their music but they all set the path for very different styles that inspire many composers to have their own uniq styles such as Debussy ,Ravel, Bartok ,Bruckner, Brahmas, Richard Strauss,Tchaikovsky even Olivier Messiaen should be in the top list ,There are so many composers that were inspired by these composers and not Known at all to us now but were doing good at their time and influence these well known composers .Composition is not about a beautiful melody is not a film music at least not in this discussion ,everybody love beautiful melodies but what classical music went through the history and most important elements in process .

Only Liszt lived past seventy! Wagner is missing.

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