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Originally Posted by Mighty Salami
Way too hard to narrow this down to five.
Rachmaninov (2nd piano concerto "Adagio sostenuto" is the most beautiful piece of music ever written)
Chopin ("Fantasy Impromptu" - amazing tune)
Bela Bartok (Some really good piano concertos, hard to single anything out)
George Gershwin ("Rhapsody in Blue" is incredible, "Porgy and Bess" was genius)
Gustav Holst (Planets does it for me)
Arvids Zilinskis (underrated Latvian composer, "Elegy in Autumn" very moving)
JS Bach ("Toccota in D": my favourite ever organ piece)
Prokofiev (How long does this list go on?)
Scott Joplin (Apart from his piano rags, I'd reccomend tracking down his opera, "Treemonisha", which was his masterpiece.)
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Quite an admirable list!
Bela Bartok - His six string quartets are pure indulgence, very dynamic and visceral, sometimes bordering on violent
Claude Debussey - I'm not terribly much for his symphonic work, but I haven't heard a piano piece by him that I didn't love
Dimitri Shostakovich - His symphonies are dark and brooding, just the way I like them, especially his 8th symphony. One of the best and most prolific String quartet composers of the modern era.
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Mainly for his Piano sonatas,
Moonlight,
Pathetique, and
Apassionata are without a doubt my favorite pieces of music, full stop.
Frederich Chopin - In my opinion, next to Beethoven, the greatest piano composer ever. His Nocturnes are beyond my description.