What are some good classical composers?

I'm trying to do a sort of home-study in music appreciation. I've allready done Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin, Bizet, Bach, Verdi, Vivaldi, Debussy, Scarlatti, Wagner, Puccini. Any other ones I should be doing? Also If you can reccomend some good operas other than The Magic Flute, Don Giovani, Porgy and Bess, Marriage of Figgaro, Carmen, La Boheme, Madam Butterfly, and Aida that would be good too.

Thanks :-)

please read my list...i've done most of the big ones all ready

Tschaikovsky, Peter Illyich ... he wrote the 1812 Overture (with the cannons as 'instruments' in it is best), and The Nutcracker Suite (ballet). Also try listening to George Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Sibelius, Handel ... that's just a start, though. Try going to a good place you can listen to the CDs in the store, and just start at the A's and go all the way to the end of the Alphabet ... then the ones you like, buy and listen to and do your research on the lives of the composers via the Internet or at the library. As for good operas ... did you know that West Side Story is an OPERA? I know it's 'modern' and was written by Leonard Bernstein ... but it is an OPERA, not a 'musical' even though it's better known by people who like 'musicals' than by opera lovers. Try reading and you'll learn a lot more about different composers if you just put 'classical composers' onto a 'search engine' and go from there. Oh, and don't forget about Gilbert and Sullivan. They wrote 'operettas' not full operas, but they were very 'scanadalous' in what they wrote about ...from 'Mikado' to 'The Pirates of Penzance' and many, many other good operettas.

Beethoven

tchaikovsky, edvard grieg. very good!

Try Liszt for a changeover too.

Camille Saint Saens, Tchaikovsky, Rossini are good too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA9DmSfuf... these guys kick *** i love the spin the put on songs classical is amazing But really good classical with a little rock its good

I love Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II it is about mistaken identity

Shostokovich, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsokov, Franz Liszt, St Saenz, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Mahler, Paganini...

Sorry, not big on opera.

L'Orfeo by Monteverdi, Dido and Aenaes by Purcell... on the opera front. As far as good composers go, some revolutionaries you should look at are Gesualdo (a psychopath but great musical ideas), Handel, Haydn, Dvorak, Puccini and Corelli for a start.

I think I'm number 10 at this posting, in response to your question. And less I missed it, no one mentioned Brahms.

He certainly ranks with Beethoven, Bach and Mozart.

Jean Sibelius the Finnish composer, also was not mentioned; some really great music there.

Operas? Try Wagner's "Das Rheingold", and I'm amazed that you've not listened to his "Tristan und Isolde". Many, including myself, consider it to be the greatest musical testament, to romantic love ever written. You really should at least listen to the "Liebestod", the last 5 mins. or so. If you are like most who hear this glorious music, you will come away transformed.

Wotan

Rachmaninov, Ravel, and Moussorgsky are definitely worth listening to as composers.

Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico is good.

Holst's Planets are good.

La Traviata and Barber of Seville are definitely worth looking into, if you haven't already seen them.
Also, if you like Baroque music, you may enjoy Rodelinda as well.

This is a charmingly na茂ve question.

What, exactly, do you mean by "I've already done" all those composers? It's a laudable goal, but to say you've "done" all of them seems to imply that you've thoroughly studied their lives, AND (more importantly) all their music. Clearly, if that were the case, then you wouldn't need Yahoo answers to provide you with names of other composers...

But, as for other composers you can check out (in stream-of-consciousness order): Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Shostakovich, Mahler, and Haydn are some obvious ones missing from your list.

In the twentieth century, you should check out: Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Varese, Copland, Hindemith, and Carter to start.

Operas: Tristan and Isolde, all four operas from the Ring (if you've "done" Wagner, then I have no idea how you missed these), Wozzeck, Dido and Aeneas, Cosi fan tutti.

Good luck!