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Liszt is mine. La campinella is my opium when at 3am I cannot sleep.

Henryk Wieniawski

Cant say i have one... But Beethoven would be closest to it

GreenHopper saidCant say i have one... But Beethoven would be closest to it

Agreed, Beethoven was and is amazing.

Probably Beethoven for orchestration. Chopin or Debussy for piano. The Mozart for opera and the Requiem.

Schumann and Chopin! I like my classical music with a dark undertone, ha ha.

Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff

J. S. Bach

Liszt for his showmanship and Chopin for his melodic genius!

Tchaikovsky Rachmininoff and Saint-Seans

Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven.
I listen to operas during workouts!
(Lully, Rameau, Haendel, Berlioz)

While not of the 'classical' period,
strictly speaking, I especially enjoy
Bruckner and Strauss symphonies.

Now: Dowland and Byrd lute music.
Will yow walke the woods soe wilde
I cannot keepe my wyfe at howme (!)

For orchestral music, Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius.

For piano, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Scriabin.

For violin, Sibelius, Elgar, Bach.

For orchestral and voice together, RV Williams, Bach, and Gorecki.

For voice, Whitacre, Lauridsen, Golijov.

For Viola, RV Williams and Bartok (who else is there?).

Technically, he's not classical, he's baroque, but: Tomaso Albinoni

Cecile Chaminade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxIJz8WPqO4

Shostakovitch every day! Also Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov

This question is like asking a parent which child is their favorite, its an impossible question

After playing Classical piano for ten years, my only way to answer this question is that Its really whoever I am listening to at the time, or playing at the time.

Nevertheless, I do have a special love for some composer, Brahms, Liszt, Haydn, Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

Have been increasingly interested in the works of Cesar Franck, his writing of Cyclic Form is truly amazing, his first trio in F# minor is just beautiful...

no favs. here.
if i try to pick one i start thinking about another. .. endlessly.

At this point it's pretty much a tie between Gabrielli and Monteverdi.

I also really love Tchaikovsky, Bach and Schubert, though. Bach's counterpoint was amazing. Schubert's lyrical movements are the shit, and Tchaikovsky is just awesome in general (not to mention he was gay and rather handsome.)

Joe Green for the real white boys-actually
Guiseppe Verde

Rachmaninov. Love his Symphony No. 2. But his Prelude in Gm is my fav.

Tchaikovsky's grandness and "over-the-topness" gets me every time.

shostakovich. hollllaaaa
can listen to symphony no.5 fo DAYS

Eduardo Lalo and the next guy isn't really a classical composer, he's more new age, Phillip Glass...

For opera Mozart, Verdi, and Puccini.
For orchestral Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Handel, and again Mozart.
For piano Chopin, Debussy, and Bach.
For voice Mahler, again Bach, and Schubert.
For waltzes, polkas, and marches, Johann Strauss.