Sorry, but I couldn't include everyone.
As to the single most beautiful piece of music ever written, I assume you're referring
to "Clair de lune". That is a beautiful piece, but I will go with "Moonlight Sonata" by
my boy Ludwig.
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Bach , Chopin and Debussy. You can't make this list and leave Claude Debussy off.
He composed THE single most beautiful peice of music ever written.
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All excellent choices, Boulevard, but I wanted it to be a relatively short list! The key word here, of course, is relatively. I did think of Mendelssohn btw.
Very interesting name btw.
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Others you should add:
Vivaldi (Four Seasons: most notably, "Spring")
Pachelbel (Canon: arguably the most famous classical piece of all time)
Debussy
Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance)
Mendelssohn (A Midnight Summer's Dream)
Orf (O Fortuna)

It was. And recently they exhumed it to do some sort of test. Then they put it back.
Very creepy.
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I did not know that.
That would have been cool.

Well he did get two votes.
BTW, did you know that his heart is buried in Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland?
I visited the church when I was there back in 2013.
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Oh wow, is my face red! Of course it's spelled Haydn. I must have been over medicated when I did this poll. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It has now been corrected.
And in voting for Bach, you are in the majority. I voted for my boy Ludwig. Meanwhile I'm so gratified that this post has generated so many responses. I had no idea we had so many classical music aficionados here!
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‍️ Christina 1986-05-20

No, Mozart doesn't even count.
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it's spelled Haydn. Also the correct answer is Bach, no ****ing argument.

I didn't know we had this many classical music fans here in the Wild, Wild, West.
That's great to discover!
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I don't consider him a classical composer, and I don't know of anyone who does.
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Yeah, great stuff. Bartok is another composer I like.
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‍️ Christina 1986-05-20

The YouTube video I posted, of a string ensemble. Here:
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I don't know. Compared to what?

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Aren't his most exciting works comparably boring? Rite of Spring from Fantasia, with the dinosaurs, is actually an ancient pagan Russian ballet where they go crazy the whole time, maybe like modern dancers.
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I used to listen to Stravinsky a lot. Especially The Firebird and especially Infernal Dance.

‍️ Christina 1986-05-20

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I would say Stravinsky. But he's not there, so I'll go with Liszt or Tchaikovsky.
I'm not into Mozart or Beethoven or Bach so my bias may be overlooking them. They were probably greater in terms of impact.
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‍️ Christina 1986-05-20

I'm probably not guessing. I know and am telling you. I did 3 speeches on Classical Music this summer at a community college. I was an adamant music major at a prestigiously identified Catholic, Jesuit university.
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PS Looks like our boy Bach is going to win, and I STILL can't believe nobody has voted for Mozart!
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So did I. I would put Mozart second.
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