Suppose you're going on a decade long space-flight and can take complete box sets of 5 different composers?

Question

Suppose you're going on a decade long space-flight and can take complete box sets of 5 different composers?

Answer 1

Great question!



But because you're talking about a ten year flight my primary concern would be to over-exposure, over-listening to the less prolific composers should I select them. Through such a long journey as much variety as possible should be a concern.



First I would pick Haydn. Not because he's my favorite composer but because his complete works are so substantial that it would take me a long time to listen to all his work.



Second, if I could include all his transcriptions of other composers' works Liszt's complete works would also fill a great part of the journey.



So my list would probably include:



Haydn

Liszt

Mahler

Beethoven (of course)



Number five would be the tough choice. But here again, I don't want to re-cycle old favorites too quickly. So number five would also have to be a more prolific composer.



Perhaps Mozart or Vivaldi or Bach?



But I couldn't imagine living that secluded, that isolated that long without some opera. In which case I might just boot out Mozart or Vivaldi or Bach for:



Verdi

Answer 2

Actually, this is much harder than I thought it would be. My first selection was:



Handel

Vivaldi

Monteverdi

Bach

Gabrieli



But I'm a bit worried that even I would get sick of Baroque after 10 years of nothing BUT Baroque.



So my modified list is this:



Vivaldi

Monteverdi

Bach

Dufay

Stravinsky



Methinks there's a healthier variety here!



Hafwen x

Answer 3

First off, many thanks for being so merciful: at least 5 sets of complete works, rather than the torture of a single "best" composer or, worse, single work... :-))



Mozart -- without him my musical life would have no meaning.



Telemann -- I set great store by keeping a good table , and the Passions can service the spiritual when required



(Don't need Chopin: carried free in head.)



Bellini -- peerless beauty, craft and wit



Reger -- core part of my prof. life, would be 'peg-legged' without him :-)



Hans Werner Henze -- portmanteau option to cover as much of the 20thC's possibilities in a single craftsman choice

Answer 4

I like most of your choices. I'd dump (with reckless abandon) Mozart and Chopin and substitute Bruchner and Sibelius



... and I'd smuggle in some Buxtehude and Sweelink as well.

Answer 5

Vivaldi

Handel

Gluck

Rossini

Gesualdo



For me the first two are obvious choices! Gluck is in there for me to listen to when I get sick of the complicated baroque music... Rossini, is for opera, and Gesualdo is for when I am sick of everything!

Answer 6

Bach

Beethoven

Brahms

Schumann

Rameau, Shostakovich, or Palestrina. Not quite sure which.



See, I'm first and foremost in to Baroque music, but I think that would start to drive me crazy if I was stuck in space with just that. So, I made my choices based on variety. However, as you can see from the last bit, I don't have much musical integrity :P

Answer 7

Beethoven

Mozart

Michiru Yamane

Chopin

Bach

Answer 8

Difficult question, but I think I'd go with



Beethoven

Rachmaninoff

Shostakovich

Chopin

Bach

Answer 9

Bach

Vivaldi

Corelli

John Williams

Mozart



they are all so captivating

they are also great composers

Answer 10

Hmmm...



1) Mozart - because he composed so much, it would take a long time to finish listening to them all. And it encompasses all (or nearly all) of the genres in the Classical period. I would die without his operas! Is there a DVD player onboard?



2) Bellini - for sheer beauty and elegance of bel canto writing.



3) Bach - despite not being one of my favourite composers. Something substantial to keep my brain occupied listening to and analysing his counterpoint techniques.



4) A compendium of the most significant early music works. So maybe including Tallis, Byrd, Gabrieli, etc. I've recently taken an interest in early music - me thinks thanks to MissLimLam, Hafwen, and my music history professor. You guys (girls, actually) are gradually turning me into an early music nut.



5) Puccini or Verdi...I can't choose! Maybe Puccini. But I want Otello, Rigoletto and Traviata too. Oh well, Puccini is more different from Bellini's bel canto style, so I think I'll go with him. Final answer - Puccini.



If I'm not allowed to go with my #4, I'd substitute it with Beethoven.

Answer 11

Well I have a confession to make -- I am afraid of Wagner. Everyone talks about how complex his music is, and I'm afraid it will go over my head. I figure I'll wait awhile before I dive into it. Get some more music theory and whatnot under my belt. But as of right now, I really haven't given Wagner a try. But to answer your question, I suppose the length might be a reason. People in my generation don't have the patience to listen to classical music because of the length. I remember a guy freaking out because a certain pop song was five minutes long. (Heaven forbid! A whole entire five minutes! *rolls eyes*) Between that and the complexity, that might be the reasons Wagner is such a turn off to some people.

Answer 12

1. JS Bach

2. Mozart

3. H. Purcell

4. Vivaldi

5. Beethoven

Answer 13

Difficult one



Haydn, definitely - I could then really get to know all his symphonies and string quartets (not to mention the 400 odd Scottish folk songs!)



Bach - and then, again, I could get to know all the cantatas



Mozart - because I would have to have all the operas



Berlioz - to get to know The Trojans and Benvenuto Cellini really well



oh, finally Puccini, unless you would let me have a compendium of lesser known British composers like Richard Arnell, Alan Rawsthorne, Lennox and Michael Berkeley, Frank Bridge, York Bowen, etc)

Answer 14

1) Rachmaninoff- He is a MUST

2) Bach

3)Beethoven

4)Prokofiev

5)Schubert

I would like to smuggle in some Chopin, Liszt and Debussy as well

Answer 15

interesting question I would have to go with



Bach

Buxtehude

Handel

Vivaldi

Mendelssohn



Yes, I know that Mendelssohn does not fit in with the other four picks but got to change it up a bit.

Answer 16

J. S. Bach



Rachmaninoff



Mozart



Beethoven



Scriabin

Answer 17

Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Suppe', Strauss and I would try to smuggle a few Prokofiev and Verdi works along.

Answer 18

Ravel

Bach

Beethoven

Stravinsky

Prokofiev.



This was more difficult than I thought.

Answer 19

My first three choices come very easy:



Richard Wagner(above all)

Tchaikovsky

Sibelius



Now comes the crunch--------------------Let's see;



J.S. Bach: wrote a lot of really great music.



I'll have to think about the 5th; will return.



Alberich

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5th - Cesar Franck. Some of his compositions have always intrigued me: two in particular, "Les Chausseur Maudit"(The Accursed Huntsman). And his "Symphonic Variations":



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGm_MJ7rYDY&feature=PlayList&p=680A67F8C37DC588&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=30

Answer 20

Bach is a must xD

Answer 21

My five would be:



Bach

Beethoven

Mahler

Monteverdi

Mozart

Answer 22

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Answer 23

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