hey anyone who likes classical music just wonderin who/what is youre fav composer/piece

that is a tie between two.
1812 Overture by P.I.Tchaikovsky or First Suite in E-flat by Gustav Holst

what about you?

I grew up with classical music (via the piano) so of course I gotta say Chopin is my favourite. There's this crazy hard one that I play and it kills my left hand everytime... Etude op. 10, n. 52. I dunno if that makes any sense to people...

Also, Chopin is technically baroque but everyone shoves that kind of music into the box known as "classical"... just a thought.

I've been playing piano since about age 4. I've only been in lessons once for about half a year, which is really not long enough to learn everything about reading music, e.t.c. Therefore, up until then, I had to learn everything by ear. I never really tried to, I just picked everything up.
So far I know everything from Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu to Mozart's Turkish March and Beethoven's Fur Elise. And alot of things on the side. Rather than starting band classes in 5th and 6th grade like most other kids, I didn't get a start until late 7th grade. About two months after playing baritone (I had never come into contact with any sort of wind instruments up until then) I made first chair out of about 7 in honor bands. I've learned just about every instrument there is (winds) except oboe. I'm in community band now and I love it. Now that I can read music and I'm in 9th grade, I'm always synthesizing stuff on my keyboards, listening to something or another, or just practicing on whatever instruments I have at the time. So yeah, how's that for a music nerd? Classical music, however, is probably one of my favorites. That and, well, you just can't beat the themes of John Williams.

i don't have a favorite piece....but...

my favorite composers are:

bach (bach = god)
beethoven
pärt
shostakovich
rachmaninoff
dvorak
ravel

and chopin was romantic...he lived in the earlier half of the 19th century. not to mention, his composition gives him away pretty quickly.

i'm amused, jonnyxcore, that you chose john williams for his themes. nearly all of the major ones are ripped off (or at least heavily based on previously composed themes). i thought perhaps the harry potter theme was an original when i heard it...but then i heard the barber cello concerto. he's quite proficient at leitmotif though, and i do like his work almost universally.

Chopin and Debussy are my favorites. I like the Children's Corner suite and arabesques from Debussy. Chopin's nocturnes are all amazing so is most of his other work; he seems to have this other dimension which is full of emotion - and that really hits the spot for me. I far prefer Chopin over any other composer, however Debussy has come close - not to mention Beethoven (moonlight sonata), Bach (well tempered clavier book), Rachmaninoff (rach 1, 2, 3) ... argh! - the list goes on.

Is it cliche or just a sign of my philistinism that my favourite classical pieces are Beethoven's Fifth and Ninth Symphonies? That shit's like heavy metal from the 1800s. Oh, and you can't go past Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre or Rossini's Overture to La gazza ladra. Then there's the Marche Slave and the 1812 by Petey-baby Tchaikovsky - the Freddie Mercury of the Romantic orchestra pit.

oh im happy i found this forum... my favourite composer is Johann Sebastian Bach and my favourite work is his Brandenburg Concertos. if i were to chose which my favourite movements, id say Brandenburg concerto 3- 3rd movement allegro, or brandenburg concerto 4 - presto

Yes Davo..
But see, the themes of John Williams are nearly always accompanied by the reminiscing of (in my case) childhood memories.
haha.

I mean, you hear something like Darth Vader's Imperial March or The Jurassic Park theme and I'm reminded of the times I used to watch those as a child.
Even though alot of them were before my time.

It's sort of easy to tell that John Williams wouldn't come up with ALL those themes originally. But it is quite surprising, however, that he's base them largely off of early composers' works. And use them for modern film.

In my last post I forgot to mention Danny Elfman. He's also got some pretty amazing things. Take The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's delightful. But take Corpse Bride, for instance. The main melody in the movie is portrayed in a piano solo early in the movie, incase you haven't seen it. That same melody is touched on all over the movie.

Now, this next part I'm not 100% sure of. I saw on Corpse Bride forums somewhere that the melody is almost completely identical to one of Beethoven's works for piano. Anyone heard of it?

sorry I replied twice.
don't know how that happened..haha.