This thread will take the form of a running commentary poll.

Simply reply to it with your choice, add reasons if you wish. With each new post I will edit this first post by "writing in" your choice!

Have fun.

Dvorak for me...
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Ludwig van Beethoven - 3
Antonin Dvorak - 2
Gustav Mahler - 2
Bela Bartok - 2
Anton Bruckner - 1
Akira Ifukube - 1
Igor Stravinsky - 1
Edward Elgar - 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 1
Dmitri Shostakovich - 1

Can we have more than one vote? Or maybe different poll for genres. like symphonic, opera, etc?

Just give it a go, but let's not get into categories too much. Not that I want to set any stringent rules, but for the purposes of a consise and truly representative list, let's say one or two choices maximum. So... ?

Then for my favourite I would have to go with none other than Beethoven.

Thanks for your votes, fellows. You will notice that I have edited my first post, it now shows Beethoven above Dvorak.

Ainola, you actually gave me a nice little surprise there. I never would have guessed that you would choose Beethoven. No sarcasm intended, honestly, I never would have guessed.

If i must stray from my native land, i'll go bruckner/mahler.

dj

My top three favorite composers are:

1. Akira Ifukube

2, Jean Sibelius

3. Aram Khachaturian

Akira Ifukube (1914 - 2006) was a Japanese composer. I am the webmaster of

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, the internet's largest English language resource about this composer, for anyone who is interested.

Akira Ifukube

i know of him from the godzilla soundtracks. my son has collected all of the movies.
your link did not work for me.

dj

Sorry the link didn't work the first time...there was a comma that attached itself to the URL. It works now.

Yes, Ifukube is best known as a film composer, in particular, for the Godzilla movies. But he was also one of the most respected and loved of all Japanese composers and composed a large body of concert compositions including concertos, symphonies, ballets, chamber works, etc.

His style relies heavily on Japanese traditional music and also music of the Ainu, an indigionous race that lives in northern Japan. He was something of a minimalist, famous for his use of ostinatos. He liked the big orchestral sound and often used explosively violent percussion in many of his works.

I know of the Ainu. Did he have Ainu ancestry?

dj

david johnson wrote:

i know of the ainu. did he have ainu ancestry? dj

No, He did not have any Ainu ancestory, but he grew up in Otofuke, Hokkaido which a had a huge Ainu population. So, from an early age, he was exposed to their culture, which he revered, and especially loved their traditional music.

You can read about him more at my website...just click on the Biography page.

david johnson wrote:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/albumList.jsp?name_id1=5735&name_role1=1&bcorder=1 i visit the arkiv site most days, just to check on stuff i might want. here are their few listings for him. dj

HMV Japan (www.hmv.co.jp) is actually the best place to find Ifukube recordings. Click on this link to see what's currently available:

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There are two CDs featuring Ifukube's music available on Naxos, so that would be a good place to start for beginners as Naxos is a budget label.

Um.......wait for it.....wait for it....BEETHOVEN!!!

Stravinsky.

I always loved Stravinsky's music since I first encountered The Firebird Suite as a child. I didn't connect with Sibelius until I was in my 20s.

I thought about this and can't think of just one other that I like more than the rest. There are a lot of others I like, not necessarily the "3 Bs." I just started exploring Stravinsky. I like the other big Scandanavian ones: Stennhammer, Nielsen, and Tubin. There are many others and sub-genres too.

Hello Badger and welcome back.

Mark G. Simon, I've updated the list at the top of the thread, Stravinsky is now there.

Badger just made a reference to something that always presses my "show off" button.

I'm such a retiring person, otherwise...

So here's a quick off-thread question: who ARE the three B's?

(Yes, it is a trick question.)

I always understood the "3 B's" to be Bach, Beethoven and Brahms...

... as opposed to the "Killer B's", Bonds-Bagwell-Biggio of the Pittsburg Pirates, early 90's?

So as some guy has stated this to be a trick question, I'm wondering what his answer is?