Escapecraft

As the title says, list your three favourite composers and favourite song/why!

Mine are:
1 John Williams - Star Wars Main Score. Enough said, this man is pure genius. His list of awesome music is immense. Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Jaws, Jurrasic Park, Harry Potter and much much more.
2 Jeremy Soule - Risk Relief and Victory, Supreme Commander Soundtrack. Seriously, this guy is like the king of Video Game scores. Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander, Morrowind, and so many others. Go look him up.
3 Marty O'Donnell - Halo Theme. This dude created one of the most recognised pieces of music in video games. AND THEN PROCEEDED TO ONE UP HIMSELF EVERY NEW HALO. My second favourite piece of his is called In Amber Clad.

So Escapians, what are your favourite three composers?

1: Wagner
2: John Williams
3: N/A

1. Gustav Holst (the man who composed The Planets)
2. Bethoven (you know of him im sure)
3. Jim Dooley, JD Mayer, Galactic, Brain. (the team that worked on Infamous 2's soundtrack)

1. Something pretentious.
2. Something I was told I'm supposed to enjoy because it's classical.
3. A third thing.

I had a massive post on why I liked Tim Follin and Graeme Norgate, but I accidentally closed the window.

So they are my first two.

Of course, my third favourite composer is whoever created the instrumental for this.

1. Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn for Aint that a kick in the head
2. Daft punk.
3. Jim Morrison for the end.

1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Just everything he ever wrote
2: Ian Anderson - Who else can make a flute rock like that?
3: Peter Schickele - His ability to blend disparate musical styles with humor is unparalleled

1: John Cleese
2: Eric Idle
3: Graham Chapman

Their work inspires me.

1. Grant Kirkhope, Did ALL the music for the old Rareware games on the N64 (includes Banjo-Kazooie games, Conkers Bad Fir Day, Perfect dark, Donkey Kong Country, ect)
2. John Williams, i didnt know who he was until Jake said he did all the movie scores that i happened to like
3. Apocalyptica, They are 4 head banging, metal loving, cello players from Finland. They are largely instrumental and have done renditions of Metallica songs and Hall of the Mountain King along with a lot of their own stuff.

1. Jimmy Page
2. Thomas Newman (Shawshank Redemption)
3. Jeremy Soule

1.Daft Punk
2.Deadmau5
3.Skrillex

Do they count?

UndeadJesus, I'll give you Daft Punk as they actually composed the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. And even though Deadmau5 is awesome, both he and Skrillex are in the techno songwriting business as such, they haven't written composition works.

So no, your 2 and 3 don't count.

Keep it up guys, this is interesting and funny to see all your responses both for those being all srs business and those being all FOR TEH LULZ.

Frederic Chopin
Claude Debussy
Samuel Barber

Also, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Antonio Vivaldi, Johannes Brahms, and Pytor Tchaikovsky

What can I say? I like classical.