Beethoven, Sibelius, and Mahler I love. The rest I admire, for the most part anyway. Some more, some less, mostly Eastern European and Russian composers. Interesting, I think, that I appear to be the only person, at least in this thread, who loves (and greatly admires BTW) Beethoven. Orchestral, Chamber and Solo piano. The only composer that connects in all forms of music (except opera) for me.
For music for solo piano only I should include in the 'love' category, in addition to Beethoven and Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Prokofiev, Schumann and Schubert (in no particular order).
For music for solo piano only I should include in the 'love' category, in addition to Beethoven and Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Prokofiev, Schumann and Schubert (in no particular order).