Who are some of your favourite composers?

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An0ny25

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Just curious!

As I look further into my composition development, I'm looking for any recommendations on who I might learn from. I'm focusing, right now, on piano based music, some classical, and jazz.

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he may be a newbie,but Producer T-Minus's composer Nikhil Seetheram is really good at composing melodies,and only 19 years old in college.
 
If we're talking like composers in the old school sense of the word then no-one can beat Chopin imo.
 
Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, Sculthorpe, Penderecki, Lutoslawski, Brahms, Mahler, Grieg, Stravinsky, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Debussy, Schoenberg
 
Old School-Duke, Monk, Mingus, Wayne Shorter
Recent Flying Lotus, Esperanza, Christian Scott,and Laura Mvula.
 
and you shame me

jazz: Charlie Mingus (find the documentary on Epitaph if you can worth a sit down and listen/watch), Glenn Miller, Basie, Ellington, Eubie Blake, Cab Colloway, Lionel Hampton, Thelonius Monk,
 
Debussy -

Chopin -

Glass -

Rimsky-Korsakov -

Mussorgsky -

Offenbach -

Wagner -

Berlioz -

Saint-Saens -

Mendelssohn -

khachaturian -

Copeland -
 
A few others-
Bliss -

Holst -

Delibes -


Prokofiev -

Strauss -

Rossini -

Bach -

Poledouris -

Puccini -

Grofe -

Orff -

Beethoven -
 
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Check out Varien. He's done a ton of edm tracks but also composes for films and whatnot. He also has some solid tutorials on youtube.
 
SO, thinking about my more modern influences there are

Dave Brubeck, King Crimson (including Robert Fripp as solo composer and the group compositions as well), Brian Eno, Frank Zappa
 
It seems that many of the classics have been mentioned, except Vivaldi should be mentioned, great violin skill. Ill mention a few more modern composers.

Bruce Hornsby

Thomas Canning (check out "fantasy on a hymn")

the cinematic orchestra (I especially enjoy "flight of the birds")

Thomas Newman (I like "any other name")

Eric Whitacre (his "alleluia choir" is brilliant)
 
Suppose I'll have to add some more modern influences

Can't leave out Franky Boy -


He's probably still arguing with the Devil about his Pickle right now:cool:

Vangelis -

Hubler/ Schwab -

Dave Pike Set -

A. Shanker -

Brook colab with Legendary Khan -

Kraftwerk -

Axelrod -

Ashby -

Wayne -

An not forgetting a few English Gents -

Oldfield -



Ellis -

Williams -

And then some - to be continued
 
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And then Some -





Mainly Pierre Moerlen's -















iconic movie work, but beautifully enigmatic -

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