What do you think was beethoven's greatest work?!
Question: Also Mahler's?
Mozart's?
Bach's?
Berlioz's?
Pavarotti's?
And others?
Answers: Also Mahler's?
Mozart's?
Bach's?
Berlioz's?
Pavarotti's?
And others?
As for Beethoven, I'd have to say that his greatest work is his 9th symphony, in my opinion. The 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th are also the "greats", although I really love the 4th. His violin concerto is nice, as well as a couple of his piano concertos, like the 3rd and the 5th I really love. His Egmont overture is awesome, and then there are the sonatas.....my favorites being the Waldstein, and the Appassionada, the Moonlight sonata is great, buy not my favorite.
As for Mahler, my favorite composer, I'd have to say his best work is his 5th symphony, although the 1st is my favorite. The 5th is awesome, one my favorite endings in all of music. The 1st symphony is my favorite ending in any symphony.
Mozart's greatest work in my opinion is probably the operas Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. His greatest symphony in my opinion is the 40th, the Little G minor symphony.
Berlioz' most popular work is probably the Symphonie Fantastique....and you really should read the story behind it, ill put the link down below.
Don't know much about Pavoratti, I dont listen to opera but rarely.
I'm not qualified to venture an opinion on that, but I can tell you my favorite pieces by Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, and Ode To joy
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Bach
He was good in Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure.
If you listen to their music you may decide as I did that greatest is not a useful concept.
the remade with vocals Ya'll Want A Single-Korn
Bad question
My favorite Beethoven work is tied between three, Egmont, Violin Concerto and the Grosse Fugue (oh wait the 31 Piano Sonata see there are just way way too many). His best is almost certainly the ninth symphony. Mozart's Requiem shines high above his other music I think but also the overture for Don Giovanni and Queen of the Night (aria from the Magic Flute). Bach? His fugues! They are an unparalleled musical acomplishment. Something that will never happen again. Over a hundred and fifty great fugues (my favorite is little fugue in G minor). Berlioz? Is this even a real question. I mean he has definatly more than one work but only one of them would ever make it into a music appreciation class and it is a truly marvelous work. The only Pavarotti I've ever heard of is the stupid crossover guy and I pray you don't mean him. Mahler well Im not a Mahler fan so I won't comment. You totally skipped the twenith century :P.
I think often our favorite works of great composers are those we know best -- those we've spent time playing and listening to. Especially with a composer like Beethoven, he wrote so much great music that, as someone above said, "greatest is not a useful concept". The music of his that I love best (9th symph, missa solemnis, vln concerto, most of the piano sonatas) is music I am very familiar with.
These pieces are played so much because they are great works, but I think that there is much great music of Beethoven's that is not so well known, and that if it were as well known as the most famous works it would also be famous.
The same is surely true of the other composers.