I'm still a bit mind-boggled... it is one thing to know it, but it just seems so unconnected to me when I'm playing it!

I've been playing for a bit short of 4 decades... and as far as a favourite composer... sigh... that is just too hard to choose! I specialise in Baroque and Classical Music, so the music of the Baroque period speaks best to me. The concepts of harmonic tension and resolution were well perfected at that time, and the linking of the music with the spoken rhetoric and the affects.

The Romantic and pre-Baroque are a language that just doesn't resonate with the same strength (for me!).