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I absolutely can't stand the ending of both the 5th and 3rd.

The fifth just has 3 minutes of large loud chords of tonic and dominant with the odd sub dominant for good luck…

There are tonns of examples of people copying other composers and them selves. Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's 1812 is one example, as is Mozart's 41st's last movement main theme and (I think) symphony 33 aswell as a couple Brahms and Beethoven also share the melody. I can't seem to fi...

Please don't get me started on schoenberg et al. (too late for that now) i think that is the ONLY kind of music i can acually get nothing out of at all. Possibly because tonal music is actually natural for our ears. [q](i acually think it frees up the composer to do a lot more than within tradition...

fantasticly amazingly brilliant at times, indifferent at other times.

...how many time have I heard that. Half my lecturers have said that. Can't agree more. But for me, I don't like... most of his quartets.

Then there is Schoenberg... first dozen pieces are good, the rest are historical. :p

One or two is my favourite can't choose. two of Beethoven's most significant symphonies, the Third and Fifth? The melody (which is just the outline of a chord... how original...) is a melody from Mozart's overture of Bastien & Bastienne. When ever I hear it I can't help thinking of the Shepherds...

oh the medleys I could write if I could remember what I did!)

You know, it's quite likely that becuase you are falling asleep the melodies you feel at the time are good would not be as good once realised.

I'm the latter one, I can orchestrate in my mind.

I'd be glad to. Not saying that I'd be able to do a lot per se but I can help a bit.

[q]Wait... is K.331 the minor key (a?) sonata? If so, then I also remember liking it a lot when I was little Smile I would listen to a friend of mine play it over and over...[/q]Yep, but the minor key movement is the last, I fell in love with the first oddly enough.

That's what I mean, you stumbled upon the Schubert, much like me with the Mozart k331.

I too listened t mainly Vivaldi, Mozart and Beethoven when I was younger. :p

For example, my favourite composer is Bach, but my personality is most similar with Chopin...! Chopin admired Bach and drew a lot from him. :p IMO, your favourite composer is determined from who you listened to a lot (especially while young) or in turning points of your life. For example, I only st...

Although Bach was probably more inventive than Mozart, keep in mind that just because he (as well as Romantic composers) are inventive, does not simply make them better. You are asking for the greatest composer not most innovative composer. For me Mozart is the one who, although mainly works with cu...

I remember seeing a score for Solo trumpet of an F# 8 octaves above middle C.

www.classicalcat.com
www.mozart-archiv.de

But mostly I get my music from CDs in my library at uni. At the rare occasion that I just simply cannot find a the recording I want or a piece I want I will be forced to d/l it, but I avoid that at all costs.

I'm not saying it's simple, but it is illogical, and tonal music is more complex. I'm just saying that having an atonal fugue takes the complexity from the fugue because you don't have any limitation apart from what you or your critics "like". [q]My own take on compositional criticism is a...

[q](including an atonal fugue, i'd heard that it's hard to write fugues and to write good atonal music, so i tried, it's not too bad!)[/q]Not to be a party pooper, but the only thing that makes a fugue hard it when it is tonally logical. The combination for dominant, real, tonal, stretto, answer, co...