Orchestral Composer of the Week.

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Moderator: Biscuit1978
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Gegründet am: 11. Dez. 2011
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Full orchestra, chamber variations, choral or other. Pick your 5 favourite composers per week and the composer with the most votes each week enters the Hall of Fame.

WELCOME TO ORCHESTRAL COMPOSER OF THE WEEK
Each week you can pick up to 5 of your favourite Orchestral composers and nominate them for the HALL OF FAME.
The composers can be classical composers or movie soundtrack composers but they must be known mainly for orchestral work (full orchestra, chamber variations or choral). Bring them all on and let's see who comes out on top.

The winning artist will be revealed each Sunday.

HALL OF FAME
Week 21 Winner - Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst (born September 21, 1874 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK - died May 25, 1934) was an English composer and a music teacher for over 20 years. Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets. Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, his early work was influenced by Ravel, Grieg, Richard Strauss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, but most of his music is highly original, with influences from Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes. Holst’s music is well known for unconventional use of metre and haunting melodies.

Gustav Holst wrote almost 200 catalogued compositions, including orchestral suites, operas, ballets, concertos, choral hymns, and songs. .

Holst became music master at St Paul’s Girls’ School in 1905 and also director of music at Morley College in 1907, continuing in both posts until retirement.

Holst died on May 25, 1934, after stomach surgery, at age 59. He was the brother of Hollywood actor Ernest Cossart, and father of the composer and conductor Imogen Holst, who wrote a biography of her father in 1938.

PREVIOUS WINNERS
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Wojciech Kilar
Johannes Brahms - Giuseppe Verdi
Franz Liszt - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia Week)
Antonín Dvořák - Sergei Prokofiev
Edvard Grieg - Sergei Rachmaninoff
George Gershwin (USA Week) - Richard Wagner
Dmitri Shostakovich - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frédéric Chopin - Johann Sebastian Bach
Antonio Vivaldi - John Williams
Ludwig van Beethoven - Howard Shore
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Aktive Diskussionen

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"Nominations for Week 22" (2) gestern Abend

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"Week 21 Results" gestern Morgen

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"Nominations for Week 21" (12) Samstag Nachmittag

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"Week 20 Results - UK Week" letzten Monat

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"Nominations for Week 20 - UK Week" (9) letzten Monat

Top-Künstler der letzten Woche

Gesamt Einzigartig für diese Gruppe

1	Johann Sebastian Bach	6
2	Ludwig van Beethoven	6
3	The Black Keys	4
4	Richard Wagner	4
5	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	4
6	The Beatles	4
7	Sergei Prokofiev	4
8	The Rolling Stones	4
9	The Clash	3
10	Stevie Wonder	3

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Shoutbox

Sage etwas. Melde dich bei Last.fm an oder registriere ein neues Benutzerkonto (es kostet nichts).

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Happy New Year! (:

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John Powell! love him!

Dezember 2011
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I'll have to check them out a bit further but from first look they will probably be ok.

Dezember 2011
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Will people like Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish) or Mark Jansen (Epica) qualify? Both are metal musicians but work extensively with the symphonies and orchestras in their music.

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