chesya

I would count all five of the composers in my previous post above any visual or literary artist.

Mozart has been omitted even though his Operas are damn wonderful and there is some interesting work on the Symphonic allegro in both his symphonies and later piano concertos. I think the crisis in the development of the first movement of the G minor is very beautiful, but while excelling at everything he fails to match the strengths of any of my top 5 and is way behind Beethoven.

Mahler limited himself almost exclusively to the Symphony. I sometimes feel trapped inside his oeuvre.

Liszt, Schumann and Chopin made profoundly transcendental investigations, but not enough range from either of these.

I have no words to justify my omission of Wagner or Brahms. Parsifal and the late Clarinet Quintet take me to places I have no right to go.

My favourite composers are

Roslavets

Schnittke

Hindemith

Brahms

Lutoslawski

I like dense counterpoint, close harmony and poetic conception.