Not sure if anyone here even knows the name of any composers. However, I think my favorites are Howard Shore (did the music for The Lord of the Rings, and will be doing it for the Hobbit too) and Christopher Tin (did the whole Baba Yetu think for Civ 4, pretty epic). If you have one, post or discuss.

Lennon/McCartney the two are by far my favorites.

You mean for contemporary films, games and so on? I'm very impressed by the work of Kirill Pokrovsy, the guy who did the soundtrack for the Divinity series. It's almost worth buying just for its score.

Edit: http://www.kirillpokrovsky.com/, which is a bit more useful. He has various free downloads going on there too.

Any composers.

Oh, okay. Not Shostakovich, in that case. I think he was a regular on Radio 3's "An Evening of Unpleasant Music For Your Displeasure and Suffering".

Well composers are basically people who create music, as such Plant/Page did an amazing job with Led Zep...I've been (and am as I type) been listening to Serj Tankian's solo projects and I'm loving them.

On a more traditional sense I love John Williams ( I mean c'mon :starwars: ) and obviously Jeremy Soule

He may not be my ultimate favorite composer but I've been listening to Ennio Morricone's work a lot recently: the Dollars trilogy, the Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti and (my favorite) My Name is Nobody

I'm mostly familiar with those who've done work in video games, but some favorites are:

Nobuo Uematsu
Yoko Shimomura
Yasunori Mitsuda

I love Uematsu's work. Of all the music I've heard in games, none sets tone or atmosphere better than his scores. I can't picture the Final Fantasy series without Uematsu, though Square has history with a number of other great composers as well (see the other two on my list).

Also John Williams for his work in Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, etc.

Shoji Meguro, does a lot of music for the Shin Megami Tensei series. Some of the best game music ever created, IMO.

Michael Giacchino and Chopin. Annie Clark and Bob Dylan are also awesome.

Erik Satie
Carl-Michael Eide


:bowdown:

Jeremy Soule
Jesper Kyd
Ennio Moricone
John Williams
Howard Shore
Beethoven
Mozart
Mahler
Bach

Stravinsky ( actually have an album called The best of Stravinsky )
Ravel ( string quartet in F - Beautiful )
Rodriguo
Bernard Hermann ( The day the Earth stood still, Psycho, Taxi Driver )
Albinoni
Holst
Edgar Varese
Manuel la Falla
Hans Zimmer
and of course Frank Zappa

TV/Movie: Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks/Lost Highway
Games: Nobuo Uematsu: FF
Games: Akira Yamaoka: Silent Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s87D6SVHFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvHTlWyxH0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAvz7F67oRE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTk83qis0w (his music's better than his art )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gArqdwnIoHg did a great job on the Overlord soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcL70l8MkV8

The afore-mentioned http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDNdOAOHIY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHR7DpibtXA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wzU706vNlA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk9HPC7Ej-g

Ah, I also forgot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHYARoLPpDw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEfnJwrzcTM.

I'm only going to limit myself to contemporary composers, since listing the dinosaurs will take ages, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVMVDhC-UA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM9BBOmznKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xns8VOfe9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M366oATKBns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5fJLAZEluA
Leo Brouwer (can't find any good videos of him on Youtube, but he's the modern equivalent of Bach for the classical guitar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOpPqaqm_Qc&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feTJYmXM4LI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imbwn6iVryQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDOXxa1U7Oc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs0S1L2plT8


And of course Morricone!

Things to do before you die no.187 :
Sit in a darkened room, don't speak, don't move, listen to Mahler's 5th Symphony, sit for a moment longer, get up, switch the lights back on or open the curtains, return to getting on with your life.

For games: Eric Brosius hands down. No one comes close.

Most of the times I don't memorize the name of the composers of the movies I watch/games I play. I remember Jeremy Soule though, obviously, for his work on TES

And I also remember liking the musical score for Shadow of the Colossus. Kow Otani was the composer I believe. Some of the soundtrack sounded just beautiful and perfect in conjugation with the game!

Now, other composers, I don't listen to classic much, sometimes I listen to some musics I like, but I think the only one I can recall correctly would be Camille Saint-Saiens (specially Danse macabre...)

Koji Kondo
Jeremy Soule
Mozart

to name a few.

Edvard Grieg, Hamauzu, Sakimoto, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Mark Morgan, Zappa, Holst, Brian Williams.
About my favourites.

Oldie: Mahler

Newie: Michael Giacchino

:)

Who? Do you mean Lustmord?

I'm going to say two names. You know excactly what they will be.
Jeremy Soule
Ennio Morricone
Oh there's a third one? Oh my! Jean Sibelius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTvR8A_iT28&feature=related (her album Fragile Light is beautiful)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzSlmWQuHFw