Well I am surprised at how many Bach fans there are. My top five composers are as follows :

1. Frederic Chopin
2. Wolgang Mozart
3. Tchaikovsky
4. Bethoven
5. Grieg

There are so many to choose from.

Being a classically trained pianist I'm a sucker for the Romantics - Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin etc.

One of my favourite has to be Poulenc - French composer

Brahms
Beethoven
Chopin
Rachmaninoff
Shostakovich
Done.

Beethoven
Stravinsky
Bach
Chopin
Vivaldi

Pretty standard, i s'pose:

1. W.A. Mozart
2. Frederic Chopin
3. Edward Grieg
4. Antonio Vivaldi
5. Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Not sure about top 5, but my favourites Tchaikovsky. The Nutcrackers gorgeous.

1. Albeniz
2. Rachmaninoff
3. Schumann
4. Debussy
5. Philip Glass
6. Mendelssohn

I've never been much of a Baroque person either

very difficult... just 5? I take it we're using "classical" in the general sense then

Maybe: - Bach
- Beethoven
- Stravinsky
- Bartok
- Charles Ives

honorable mentions: Purcell, Messiaen, Domenico Scarlatti, Sibelius, Mozart, Dumitrescu, Debussy, Scelsi, Respighi, Partch... gaargh and so many more!

In following is my top classical composer.

1) Szymanowski

2)Strauss

3)J. S. Bach

4)Serge Prokofiev

5)Liszt

1.Haydn
2.Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Liszt