Who Is the Best Piano Composer of All Time?

After the baroque era, there was a shift in piano composition. As each period typified an attitudinal change in the profession. Keyboard tunes in this age were based on emotional and intellectual interplay that made it easy for them to express themselves rationally. This period ushered in the romantic composers.

The classical pianists that made this era exceptional and noteworthy were Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Anthon Ebert, Joseph Geek, and many others.

Most of the composers of this period were famous for their symphonies and concertos. This is the period where some beautiful and exciting piano music was written. And the experts said that piano composition came of age in the romantic era featuring philosophical, mythical, and artistic themes. They were very emotional and expressive in their approach. As more instruments were used in their performances such as percussion instruments, string instruments, keyboards, and other electronic instruments.

This is around the beginning of the nineteenth century with geniuses like Fredric Chopin on stage. Other composers of this period with exceptional pianistic compositions were Charles Valentin Alkan, Amy Beach, Franz Bendel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Hansel, Ferdinando Carulli, James Hewitt, Christian Heinrich Rinck, etc.

The twentieth century began from 1900 to 2000. And featured high-quality piano compositions with themes of politics, sex, race, war, etc. framing their melodies. These composers rendered some emotional, soothing, baffling, and imaginative tunes that left us in bewilderment, puzzlement, and pondering. The pianistic compositions of this period featured solo instrumental works such as keyboard music, choral music, songs, operas, concertos, ballets, electronic music, and symphonies. Other forms of music associated with this genre include oratorios, chaconnes, variations, cantatas, rhapsodies, suites, and fantasies.

This era also showcased impressionism characterized by a display of emotions and moods of the subject using keyboard tunes. While modernism was about an aesthetic and philosophical attitude about the development of musical language in comparison to how it used to be. Post-romanticism is the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century featuring the cultural attitudes prevalent in that period. However, there was a dramatic turn leading to minimalism that began later in the century. Minimalist composers utilized minimal instruments in their works as opposed to the previous systems. Whereby more complex equipment was used. Some of the renowned composers of this era include Samuel Barber, Miguel del Aguilla, Theodor Adorno, Roy Agnew, and many others.

This is twenty-1^st century piano composition, which tends to portray an integration of the various musical genres like jazz, rock, pop, and all the accompanying dances. These best piano composers have made notable contributions in the music industry since 2001 until date. Most of them featured in broadcast media, commercial records, and other festivities aimed at promoting contemporary music generally.  However, these composers are using multimedia channels like the internet. And its related tools such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc. to promote their compositions.

Some of these best piano composers include Peter Seabourne, Johann Johannsson, Eric Salzmann, John Maxwell Geddes, and many others.