Cosmic wrote:Comparing John Williams to Beethoven is like comparing an atom to the sun... there's no comparison. Beethoven was quite original - everything in a piece was unique. Williams cut corners. Yes, his music is nice, but it's "background music" in the movies. I mean, come on - he added/removed one note from the original E.T. score to make the Star Wars theme song :P Smart, but he was just too lazy to create an entire new production.

Wagner was awesome. I like most of his pieces, but he's always lost a few knotches in my book because of his antisemitism.

Definately, Beethoven's 5th will always be remembered, but I think his 3rd was very well done as well.

I do have to say, however, that the song I've listened to the most is Massenet's Meditation from Thais. That's an awesome piece.