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Classical music

Last posted Mar 11, 2015 at 10:44PM EDT. Added Mar 05, 2015 at 01:59PM EST
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Let's talk about the music from the past, shall we?
Here you post your favourite classical music.
Mine are these:

I don't really listen to a lot of classical music, but I really like Gustav Holst's The Planets Suite.

My personal favourite would probably be Jupiter – The Bringer of Jollity. But Mars – The Bringer of War, Uranus – The Magician, and Neptune – The Mystic are good too. Mars is probably the one everyone has heard before though.

Jupiter simply makes me feel good. Mars is epic. Uranus is fun and odd. Neptune is… well, pretty much creepy as shit.

I won't embed videos since it always takes ages to load when there's a lot of embeds.

Jupiter – The Bringer of Jollity

Mars – The Bringer of War

Uranus – The Magician

Neptune – The Mystic

It doesn't necessarily have to be from the past. Here is one of my favorite living composers: (I actually learned all 3 movements of the first piece.)

Here's an extremely underrated composer:

My 40 favorite composers (in no particular order) are:

1. Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Frédéric Chopin
4. Franz Liszt
5. Claude Debussy
6. Maurice Ravel
7. Arnold Schönberg
8. Einojuhani Rautavaara
9. Steve Reich
10. Igor Stravinsky
11. Béla Bartók
12. György Ligeti
13. George Crumb
14. Charles Ives
15. Henry Cowell
16. Ulvi Cemal Erkin
17. Iannis Xenakis
18. John Ireland
19. Carl Vine
20. Sergei Prokofiev
21. Johann Sebastian Bach
22. Domenico Scarlatti
23. Charles Valentin Alkan
24. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
25. Tōru Takemitsu
26. John Cage
27. Harry Partch
28. Olivier Messiaen
29. Erik Satie
30. Alexei Stanchinsky
31. Percy Grainger
32. Pyotr Tchaikovsky
33. Conlon Nancarrow
34. Modest Mussorgsky
35. P. D. Q. Bach (if that counts)
36. Karlheinz Stockhausen
37. George Gershwin
38. Charles Griffes
39. Leo Ornstein
40. Alexander Scriabin

If someone awesome is missing from the list, let me know. That probably means that I'm missing out on great music.

Other than playing the piano (or pretty much any keyboard instrument because I've also played the harpsichord, clavichord, organ, and accordion) and some percussion, I also write music too.