WHO is the Greatest? It’s a short list isn’t it?
Bach / Beethoven / Mozart are usually argued about and compared as the greatest composer.
Bach created “music” as we know it today. (with the introduction/elaboration of Contrapuntal)
Mozart they say is the sound of God and/or Angels.
Beethoven? The Master of everything? Symphonies. Piano. Chamber. etc.
Who else? Chopin / Liszt / Brahms / Handel / Tchaikovsky and a handful of others. But usually it’s an argument about the BIG 3!
I’m going to throw my hat in the ring and proclaim: (after a short 3 year intense period of listening to and collecting Classical Music) Beethoven as The One! The Greatest.
At this point there are only a few pieces by him (on the right side under Beethoven) but I will be adding more from now. Comments welcome!
Ben Leet
February 8, 2009 at 4:48 amThree years and you claim to hear the greatest? Well, you are the greatest. I’d like to hear some more opinions. Bach, Faure, Chopin, Mozart, Tchaicovsky, some Gregorian chants, the Modern Jazz Quartet — none of them give me a headache. That’s the deal, who gives you the greatest headache? Beethoven, no doubt. I think they all can drive one crazy, but Beethoven has an inside advantage on driving one through the wall. I want to add Cole Porter and Richard Rogers in my greatest list. And probably Duke Ellington, some classical qawalli singers. It is so interesting, music. I told someone music tends towards bliss. Shelley had a little poem about the music that rings in one’s ears being the greatest. I was at Amartithi one year and heard Pratip Ahir play before the 15 minutes of silence. That was the greatest.
tricia
September 4, 2008 at 2:02 ami agree