1. Rachmaninoff- I don't remember hearing another composer that equaled his chops. One of the best.

2. Mozart- Surely deserves a place in any top 5 for Eine Kleine Nachtmusik alone.

3. Schubert- I love the mood of his music. Probably not as accomplished as most but he certainly speaks to my ears.

4. Beethoven- If he wasn't a composer and he was born in this day and age he would have been one of those commercially huge artists that everyone hated on because he didn;t write something as great as Moonlight Sonata everytime.

5. Brahms/Haydn- I link them together because they have alot of similarities in writing epic pieces that transcend. I can't choose between them.

Tchaikovsky
Mussorgsky
Bach
Tell
Mozart

1. Schubert (String Quintet in C)
2. Beethoven (String Quartet in Am)
3. Mendelssohn (Midsummer Night's Dream Overture)
4. Vivaldi (Concerto for 2 Trumpets)
5. Dvorak (American Quartet)

Difficult, but here i go,

Liszt (la campanella)

Rach (Prelude G minor)

Prokofiev (Montagues et Capulets - Romeo And Juliet)

Beethoven ( Moonlight Sonata 3rd Mov.)

Chopin (Waltz E-minor, No. 14)

Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Chopin
Vivaldi
Wagner

In particular order.

Do you like Schumann's piano music? Going by this list, which is very similar to mine, you should

If I'd heard him before, I must have overlooked it. I just listened to "Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120 (1851 - an orchestral piece)" and enjoyed it very much.

I also listened to Requiem Op. 148 (Requiem aeternam) which was a choral and dramatic composition according to Wikipedia which I like even better. Very melancholic and (without irony) dramatic.

Thanks, Paul.

IMO one of the best piano pieces, along with Chopin's 24 preludes

Rachmaninoff
Chopin
Beethoven
Wagner
Tchaikovsky

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Mikael Tariverdiev
Ennio Morricone

I actually have Evgeny Kissin performing Chopin's 24 Preludes and it's a breath-takingly beautiful performance.