Favorite Living Composer(s)?

by **Philip Daniel** » 29 May 2005, 20:22

Mine are:
Joe Hisaishi (One of the most acclaimed living film composers, best known for his scores to the films of Hayao Miyazaki)
Gerhard Richter (http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/user_page.pl?url=GerhardRichter)

by **Mephisto** » 30 May 2005, 01:54

Mine are Ligeti with out a doubt. His etudes are incredible.But I like other contemporary composers like Rzewski and Boulez.

-The Mephisto

by **Goldberg** » 30 May 2005, 23:30

Yes, Ligeti is by far my favourite living composer..although I can't say I know very many. Ratuavaara is definitely a second, and I'm positive I could come up with some more if I knew a little bit about them.

by **calebrw** » 31 May 2005, 22:28

my knowledge of living composers extends to john williams, so I have to say him.

But of course, besides the above, he did do a great job w/ starwars/jurrasic park and indiana jones...and probably more, idk about those though

actually now that i get to thinking (a rare happening), quite a few of the songs we play in band are written by living composers, but i can't think of any, except for greg hillis, who wrote "Quest for the Undaunted Knight" which is a great song. But I don't know any of his other songs

then on teh other had there is the finnish legend: kristian setala (aka nerd) whose fugato is a true work of art...

now that i've rambled far past my due, please feel free to add your comments

by **Mephisto** » 13 Jun 2005, 10:21

Mephisto wrote:Mine are Ligeti with out a doubt. His etudes are incredible.But I like other contemporary composers like Rzewski and Boulez.

-The Mephisto

I am not so sure about Boulez. I think I will put the russian classical/jazz composer/pianist Kapustin up there. Also I like William Bolcom(is he still alive?)

-The Mephisto

by **Tessei** » 13 Jun 2005, 11:21

Duit-lleux

by **calebrw** » 13 Jun 2005, 11:41

Mephisto wrote:Also I like William Bolcom(is he still alive?

Yes: http://www.bolcomandmorris.com/

by **Poggle** » 05 Jan 2006, 02:07

Ennio Morricone

Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America could've been operas.

by **tony** » 05 Jan 2006, 18:41

The composer who wrote the music for the movie'Titanic'is by far my favourite! He made the flute music resemble true Irish Folk Tunes ! I also love the music from the 'Phantom Of The Opera"!Completely awesome!

by **jre58591** » 07 Jan 2006, 22:44

hands down - nikolai kapustin
i love his jazz etudes, etudes in 5 different intervals, 2ns sonata, variations, i could keep going on. he picled up where gershwin and rachmaninoff left off, as some say.

i also like rzewski's works a bit, especially his north american ballades and his de profundis (melodramatic oratorio). also, ligeti is cool. his etudes and musica ricercata are pretty cool.

by **Pinco** » 11 Jan 2006, 16:25

Mine are
John williams (he made star wars music)
Arthut loyd webber (the phantom of the opera, cats... etc)

by **Max** » 17 Jan 2006, 12:30

I'm a jazz head, when it comes to alive musicians.

by **Pinco** » 17 Jan 2006, 22:48

:O i love latin jazz! how about michel camilo?

by **Apeiron** » 23 Mar 2006, 23:15

Yoko Kanno for Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Reign, and Samurai Shamploo;
Nubou Uemastu for Final Fantasy X;

and Arthut Loyd Webber? how about Andrew Lloyd Webber?

by **b3n** » 28 Mar 2006, 06:54

Koji Kondo.

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