My fav. is Chopin. I am down with his pure piano stuff. Greatest I might say is Beethoven, simply for what he accomplished deaf.





Make the choice adventurous stranger, strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder 'till it drives you mad what would have happened if you had.

My tapeworm tells me what to do

My favorite is also Chopin, although Rachmaninov comes in a close second. My dad used to play the Chopin ballades (#3 and #4) and some of Rach's preludes.

My vote for greatest composer of all time goes to J.S. Bach.

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i heart tchaikovsky.

greatest all time...i'd say mozart.

My favorite piece is Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (this year anyway) but my choice for greatest composer has to be Beethoven, with Hayden and Mozart a little behind.

Bach is in a separate class simply because (with help from listening to Vivaldi) he got there first with the most.

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Wagner

maynard

i dig mahler. he was a little screwed up in the head, but he put out some amazing music

Mozart

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Greatest - Beethoven/Mozart
Favorite - Liszt/Vivaldi/Rachmaninoff

I think that Beethoven and Mozart are hard to beat as being the all-time masters of classical music.

My personal favorites are Debussy and Chopin.

Eric Satie's Gymnopedies deserve an honorable mention though I know he's not at the top of the list.

Another Beethoven and Mozart fan here.