Classical Composers

[daveasdf]

I'm going to start listening to some classical tunes I think and just wanted to hear what some of the favorites are for guitarists. .. I've got this one tune, says Jason Becker on it, but it's just a big symphony, called Serrana. Does that guy write .. I don't even know what to call it. Symphonies?

[Karma In The South]

Do you mean guitar based pieces only, or what?

Tarrega is my favourite classical guitar composer, check out Recuerdos de la Alhambra.

[chris mood]

Carcassi wrote a lot of cool classical stuff for guitar.
Some people like Sor, never quite cared for him myself.
Guillianni, Tarriega, ummm..I know there is a lot more...

[Jolly McJollyson]

I think Sor's pretty good. If you're talking about composers in general...Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Rossini

[daveasdf]

Actually I meant classical composers in general - but I took the liberty of researching the names above. Classical music is such a deeper music than jazz. There's so much going on at any one given point, no clue how those guys did it. From my highschool days, the only word that stands out is counterpoint, but you've got your main melody, another main melody, a couple thousand variations of the melody mixed with .. and the list goes on and on. And a lot of those average runs on the violins are giving any well known guitarist a run for his money. Those guys that play a little classical intro before wiping into their mega solo tunes are nothing man. nothing.

[daveasdf]

that last comment wasn't my brightest moment.

[aiwass]

Jason Becker has written a lot of stuff other than guitar music, including orchestral and choral arrangements. He occasionally played the fast arpeggio part of Serrana on guitar though. There are some video clips of him playing it floating around the net.

[Azrael]

Composers i like alot:

Antonio VIVALDI
Bela BARTOK
Fernando SOR
Augustin Barrios MANGORE
Gustav MAHLER
Toru TAKEMITSU
Benjamin BRITTEN
William WALTON
William BYRD
Igor STRAVINSKY
Georges BIZET
Johannes BRAHMS
Claude DEBUSSY
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS
Francisco TARREGA
Johann Sebastian BACH
Antonin DVORAK
Conlon NANCARROW
Frank ZAPPA (Yellow Shark)
György LIGETI
Johan Friedrich FASCH
Edvard GRIEG
Zoltán KODÁLY
Franz LISZT
Modest Petrovich MUSSGORSKY
Carl ORFF
Nicolo PAGANINI
Sergei PROKOFIEV
Sergei Vasilyevich RACHMANINOV
Maurice RAVEL
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Camille SAINT-SAENS
Domenico SCARLATTI
Franz Peter SCHUBERT
Alexander SCRIABIN
Dimitri SHOSTAKIVICH
Jean SIBELIUS
Peter TCHAICHIVSKY
Guiseppe VERDI
Richard WAGNER
Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER
John DOWLAND
Claude GERVAISE
Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA
Michael PRAETORIUS
Christobal HALFFTER
Richard Rodney BENNETT
Hans Erich APOSTEL
Heinz KRATOCHWIL
Isaak ALBENIZ
Anton RUBINSTEIN
Johann PACHELBEL
Leonard BERNSTEIN
George GERSHWIN
Paul HINDEMITH
Heiner GOEBBELS
Dimitri KABALEVSKI
Aram Il'yich KHACHATURIAN
Withold LUTOSLAWSKI
Ignaz PADEREWSKI
Max REGER
Arnold SCHÖNBERG
Karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN
Kurt WEILL


... to name just a few

[Jolly McJollyson]

I'm glad Bach was in there. THAT man was a friggin genius. I love that guy.

[Azrael]

well.. the others weren´t dumb either

[Jolly McJollyson]

No, of course not, Vivaldi's "four seasons" is freakin INSANE! I just like Bach the best. He always seemed to have some hidden melody in his song (sometimes his name as it was in "Art of Fugue")