Worst Classical Music Composers
There are so many wonderful pieces of classical music! But which composer is your least favorite and why?
I think he would be glad if he saw himself on this list.
Franz Liszt was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna.
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked ...read more. Whenever I hear some melodiless, emotionless, predictable and wishy-washy generic classical piece on the radio, it always turns out to be either Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky or Schubert (sorry to Schubert fans, if they exist).
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. ...read more. Whoever put Beethoven on this list should die!
He should 100% be removed from this list.
I am annoyed by him so much
Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." His "hits" are great, but I could bear listening Etudes op.10 for 2 minutes.
Edit: I didn't vote for him, and didn't add him to the list.
Https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=qQHWJiPsfZY
This piece alone is why he deserves number one on this list. But, in general, his music is so cheery to the point that I want to kill myself.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas. I hate Wagner! His music or attitude is not even a little good!
Why? Just because Nazis loved him does not make him bad.
Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem).
Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He's just hard to appreciate. He doesn't concentrate on melodies but atmospheres and feelings. His music is not for catchy tunes and singing it while doing your work, but for processing a certain emotion.
His music is not even music- it's more percussive sounds- just listen to Towards the Flame and you'll understand.
UUUGH! I put him on this list because I love percussion and Bruckner extremely rarely in his symphonies uses percussion other that timpani. Only in his 8th and 7th symphonies he uses them. UGH! Only one note in the 7th symphony where triangle and crash cymbals are used and after that, no more usage of percussion other than timpani in his 7th symphony. I guess Bruckner hates percussion!