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What are your top 10... best pianists, best piano composers, and most difficult piano composers (difficulty of their pieces)?
I'm new to the whole piano world so I don't know much, but from what I've read I'd say:
Best pianist: Liszt
Best piano composer: Chopin
Most difficult piano composer: Rachmaninoff
That's just the best because I'm too ignorant to know 10 :P
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In no special order for solo piano music:
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Schubert
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Don't forget Mozart 
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Don't forget Mozart I didn't forget him... I just didn't include him. If piano concerti were included in my list, I would have.
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What really intrigues me are all those stories about Liszt sight reading anything and all that, I think he's the best pianist, but reading around it seems his compositions lack melody or something
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I never understood how people could say Liszt was there favorite pianist without even having listened to him play...
Bach - WTC I in C major & C minor (BWV 846-847)
Mozart - Sonata K 282
Chopin - Polonaises Op 26
Schumann - Fantasiestücke Op 12
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I haven't said he's my favorite, more like he was the most talented and virtuoso of them, I'm not asking favorite pianists, more like the more capable ones.
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I never understood how people could say Liszt was there favorite pianist without even having listened to him play... I'm always amazed by that. Nobody alive has heard him play.
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Just taking a short break from practicing, and it's always fun to read top 10 lists, so here goes:
Pianists I like:
Radu Lupu, Sviatoslav Richter, Grigory Sokolov, Alfred Brendel, Edwin Fischer, Glenn Gould, Helene Grimaud, Alicia de Larrocha, Leon Fleisher, Youri Egorov
Composers I like:
Schumann, Brahms, Prokofiev, Schubert, Haydn, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Albeniz, Scarlatti
Those are the pianists I listen to most often and the composers whose music I play most often.
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Composers I like:
Schumann, Brahms, Prokofiev, Schubert, Haydn, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Albeniz, Scarlatti
Don't see how you can leave out Beethoven!
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Hmmm
Pianists
Richter, Sofronitsky , Gilels these thre probably above the rest
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