When it comes to favorite musicians, try to avoid mentioning: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and so on.
You don't want to say, "I like to listen to Bach/Beethoven/Mozart." when you can name classical giants that even a square dancer can name. (This doesn't apply to the true gods of classical music.)
This response is not only grossly uninspired, but it doesn't show off your sophisticated and unique tastes at all.
This time, you need to talk about musicians who are relatively obscure to the layman,
slightly obscure, but who will get an "oh, that's him" kind of reaction when you mention them.
For example: Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Handel, Haydn.
Without realizing it, the B-game started to shine.
A few more names to spare for you:
Ravel, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich.
PS: The more awkward the name, the more you say it, the more you feel like you know their family up and down 5,000 years, and the higher the B-word looks.
Secondly, when you talk about your favorite music, don't mention any works by famous musicians with song titles.
If you say:
I usually like to listen to classical music, such as Beethoven's Symphony of Fate/Chopin's Nocturne/Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
The other person is afraid that they won't look at you like "oh you're happy".
After all, your attempt to pretend to be in an X mood is just too blatantly obvious.
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But if you say:
"Smetana's Vltava/Sibelius' Ode to Finland/Viniavsky's Legends... I prefer to listen to all of them".
This time, the reward may be the other party "wow, you know a lot of oh" a look of uncertainty.
Here to popularize a small knowledge point:
Classical music is mostly untitled tracks, with the exception of special topics, the rest of the title is the latter to make up.
So if, when describing favorite music, you can say, "I quite like Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor."
Even though you have no idea what a concerto does or what minor means. It doesn't matter, none of it is the point!