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Of these famous composers, which is your favorite?
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Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
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Where's Orff? I can guarantee you that a lot of non-classical music lovers perk RIGHT up when the O Fortuna movement of Carmina Burana blasts! It's like a wave of AC/DC blowing you off your feet.

3 Replies to sillynilly's answer

I went for the 4 composers I thought were most famous. Almost everyone recognizes O Fortuna, but they have no idea who Orff is.

If I were to add a fifth choice, I would probably add John Williams to give people a more modern (and still famous) choice.

Where's Orff? He fecked orff before you arrived here.

Think you are right - but we classical music fans think him a bit of a pain in the neck.

rofl. Any time I have to purchase speakers, I take Carmina Burana with me to choose which ones I want. Scan about 2 minutes into O Fortuna, and if you can't hear the timpani go from two strikes and then become strike - roll, then those are piece of crap speakers. Never heard a polymer woofer that could cut it. Tweeters and mids are perfect, but you've got to have paper woofers to faithfully reproduce the sound of fast, deep musical instrument voices. The polymer woofers (and poorly made speakers) make it sound like mush. If they can handle O Fortuna, you'll never miss another sound. From Abba to Zappa, you'll get every nuance any artist ever committed to disc.

Personally I prefer Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven"

2 Replies to MikeHend's answer

ditto

ELO did that quite well, too.

I tend to like pieces, not composers oeuvres. Dvorak's "From the New World" Ormandy conducting. Faure's "Requiem." Stravinsky;s "Rite of Spring." Mostly the Romantics, I guess. Aaron Copeland's "Appalachian Spring."

2 Replies to dauguy's answer

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Don't know it, thx for the head's-up.

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I may be the odd man out, that music is not at all what I would ever listen to..

1 Replies to BEC44's answer

Then you just haven't heard the pieces that speak to you. Did you ever watch the movie Amadeus? It's a wonderful introduction to classical music for those who've never really listened to it. And a great movie, too! I've seen it staged, but the movie was better for the musical aspect.