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Azrael
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Azrael
Gargoyle Instructor
Joined: 04/06/01
Posts: 2,093
03/02/2004 9:34 am
Here are some composers i like alot:

Antonio VIVALDI (esp. 4 Seasons)
Bela BARTOK (esp. Microkosmos and Music for Strings,Percussion and Celesta - VERY cool)
Fernando SOR
Augustin Barrios MANGORE (esp. La Cathedral, El Ultimo Tremolo and alot of other works)
Gustav MAHLER (Symphony No 5 and No 2)
Toru TAKEMITSU ("Raintree Sketch" and "All in Twilight")
Benjamin BRITTEN ("Nocturnal Op 70" - fantastic mood)
William WALTON ("Five Bagatelles" and some other works like "Crown Imperial")
William BYRD (Galliard)
Igor STRAVINSKY
Georges BIZET (L´Arlesienne - esp the "Prelude")
Johannes BRAHMS (Tracgic Overture - KILLER!)
Claude DEBUSSY (claire de lune, Girl with the Flaxen hair)
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS
Francisco TARREGA (Sueno, Recuerdos De La Alhambra)
Johann Sebastian BACH (too many to name them all)
Antonin DVORAK
Conlon NANCARROW (Studies for player piano - now THAT is sick!!)
Frank ZAPPA (esp. Yellow Shark)
György LIGETI (String Quartett No. 2 - one of the sickes pieces i know)
Johan Friedrich FASCH (his trumpet concertos)
Edvard GRIEG (Hall of the Mointain King)
Zoltán KODÁLY (Háry János Suite)
Franz LISZT
Modest Petrovich MUSSGORSKY (Pictures at an exhibition - blows me away! especially the "great gate of kiev" - VERY heroic)
Carl ORFF (Carmina Burana all the way)
Nicolo PAGANINI (24 Caprices and Grande Sonata in A)
Sergei PROKOFIEV
Sergei Vasilyevich RACHMANINOV (isle of the dead)
Maurice RAVEL (Bolero)
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (bumblebee)
Camille SAINT-SAENS (Dance of the Dead)
Domenico SCARLATTI
Franz Peter SCHUBERT
Alexander SCRIABIN
Dimitri SHOSTAKIVICH (24 Preludes and fuges for piano)
Jean SIBELIUS ("En Saga" and "the swan of tuonela" - both excelent pieces)
Peter TCHAICHIVSKY (Symphony No 1 )
Guiseppe VERDI (Aida)
Richard WAGNER (Ride of the Walkyres)
Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER (Te deum - wicked piece)
John DOWLAND (i just love all of his works)
Claude GERVAISE
Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA
Michael PRAETORIUS
Christobal HALFFTER (Codex I - killer piece to play)
Richard Rodney BENNETT (Impromptus)
Hans Erich APOSTEL (6 Musiken)
Heinz KRATOCHWIL (Triptychon)
Isaak ALBENIZ (Leyenda [Asturias])
Anton RUBINSTEIN
Johann PACHELBEL (Canon in D)
Leonard BERNSTEIN
George GERSHWIN
Paul HINDEMITH
Heiner GOEBBELS (Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten)
Dimitri KABALEVSKI
Aram Il'yich KHACHATURIAN (Sabre Dance)
Withold LUTOSLAWSKI
Ignaz PADEREWSKI
Max REGER
Arnold SCHÖNBERG
Karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN
Kurt WEILL


... to name just a few

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