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¿Question #703?
Sexy Amy: Who is your favorite classical music composer? (classical in the generic sense, not just the Classical time period)

Hms_indefatigable: Wagner
Woelf: Sir Mix-a-Lot
ttron64: Mozart
Bearikins: George Frideric Handel
MIB 8686: Bach
Frubgarde: Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Geosmores: Glass
Glamorous Mucus: Too tough - favorites are Beethoven, Schumann, and Verdi.
aleo09: dont' have one
GuyHill: Beethoven
wwwebb: Don't know the composer, but whoever does the music for NFL films.
nerotora: Beethnoven, Bach, Schubert, Mozart. In that order.
DHEK: Yanni.
DarkAvatar: Rock Me Amadeus!
Leo-T: Cole Porter
Sifu: Karl Zero, he's a genius. I hear that in France, he even has his own TV show.
POvidiusNaso: Bach.
rootbeer: Bach, I think.
Redbeardin84: Vivaldi
diehard4life: George Winston, if you are being lenient about the definition.
ZeroZilla: Either way, it's Bach. The man was just off the charts...
skars: good question. mozart I suppose.
czrall: duke nukem
animal: Johann Sebastian Bach
darcyj2: Probably Handel.
Otter: This time of year, it has to be Tchaikovsky.
duLac956: Steve Reich
Cut & Space: Moussorgsky
brainrob: Monteverdi
Admiral Fisher: Chopin and Mozart. I couldn't split them.
WatchmanX2000: Beethoven (though Sibelius's Finlandia is a delight to sit and listen to with one's eyes closed).
HBGlover: Alexander Borodin.
puck4604: Saint-Saens (Danse Macabre) and Ravel (Bolero)
puffinslayer: Tchaikovsky. . .no. . Elgar. . .wait. . . uh. . .Chopin. Actually I like a lot of them. Don't really have a favorite
Stephen Glenn: Samuel Barber
japhmi: Mozart - although Wagner is interesting. Every time I listen to his stuff I get this intense desire to invade Poland...
tolendante: Wagner
bekudno: One I've enjoyed playing on piano recently is Rachmaninoff. Also Khachaturian.
Karlsen: Ludwig Van
davidgpeterson: Schubert - because i'm VERY distanly related to him
pronoblem: Terry Reilly
DeSangre: J.S. Bach
scriptorum: Morton Lauridsen.
Loquutus: Wagner
krainer: Camille St. Saens
ssmooth: Beethoven, then Bach.
ZombyDawg: Beethoven
skrutsch: Copland or Bach or I just don't know
dakarp: Tough one. I have more Bach than anything, but I probably love Schubert the most. And thinking about this again, both Bartók (mostly for the string quartets) and Beethoven are in the running as well. Uh, and Brahms, for his chamber music. But I think Schubert still wins, in the end.
DWTripp: Vivaldi
kimapesan: Sibelius
schlappy: vivaldi
Dr. No: don't expect me to say Wagner, no it's Bartok
GrandpaDave: Bach
Jonathan Degann: Stravinsky (when I'm feeling upbeat), Shostakovich (when I'm not)
Dante_Cubit: Like Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Wagner, Mozart, and others.
Thedalek: JS Bach.
DonO: Gerald Finzi
SeeMo: Jean Sibelius.
Great Dane: John Williams
Gamegrunt: Leroy Anderson
SteveK2: Philip Glass
Bergbau: Beethoven.
Fa�l: Dvorak / Wagner ...
JimPAX: Probably Aaron Copland. Either that or Tchaikovsky.
Cavedog_pdx: Probably Bach if I have to limit myself to one composer.
fehrmeister: J.S. Bach
ThatFalafelGirl: Claude Bolling and Mozart
Lord_Prussian: Don't know enough about classical music to say
fizzix: Vivaldi
ekted: Edvard Greig
Bearcat89: Mozart
heli: I have way too many favorites.
gnomehome: Michael Nyman
Mozbink: Frederick Chopin
steadym: J. S. Bach
2amp: vivaldi
puffinge: Mozart
Tim Synge: Choral: Bach. Operatic: Wagner. Lieder: Schubert. Chamber and orchestral: Haydn.
EndersGame: Does Beethoven count? He is presently de-composing.
AlorielLelyn: Okay, definitely Arvo Part
wtrollkin2000: Bach
Scott Firestone IV: Beethoven
Grimwold: Hans Zimmer or Don Davis
UhhhClem: Beethoven.
Gonzaga: Johann Sebastian Bach
kennyb: N/A
sos1: Rossini
MisterCranky: Why the hell don't you ask who my favorite music composer is in the generic sense, then, instead of wasting all that time? I don't even understand the question now. Are you happy, Sexy Amy?? Well???
Blackwind: Mozart
CortexBomb: I've never delved deeply into it, but I do quite enjoy Beethoven
BobDodgerBlue: Don't have one
Ryno8: Chopin
djflippy: Sibelius
isolated: PDQ Bach
raolsson: Mozart or Haydn
djlg: Depends on my mood. Probably one of Mozart, Bach or Mahler
Mike A: Dvorak to listen to; Bartok to play.
Vince Londini: John Williams
dietevil: I have several - Vivaldi, Gabrieli, and di Rossi
Dave: Mahler for symphonies, Shostakovich for chamber music.
haraggan: Shostakovich
shumyum: Bach
chaddyboy_2000: Hey Amy!
geberus: Stravinsky
sdownin: John Williams
sumo: Handel, or Mozart
Ludocrazy: Serge Prokofiev
IngredientX: Crap, tough one. I'd say Arvo Part, with Gyorgy Ligeti a close second, and Steve Reich straddling the fence.
viogression: Johann Sebastian Bach
CDRodeffer: Vivaldi
ValJor: Mozart
snoozefest: none
cad614: Holst
jens_hoppe: Mozart
jttm: Wagner
queequeg: Mozart
skelebone: I like Gerofe's Grand Canyon Suite, as well as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
ynnen: Antonin Dvorak, especially his New World Symphony and Slavonic Dances pieces
gashlycrumb: JS Bach
ScottBecker: JS Bach