Today I asked myself: Who is the modern day equivalent to Beethoven? (as a composer, not a tragic hero).
http://lvbandmore.blogspot.com/2010/...beethoven.html
I think these are some basic facts about B which a modern equivalent would have to match:
1. He achieved fame and popularity in his own time, both as a performer and and a composer, tho his popularity waxed and waned dramatically.
2. His music influenced composers for the next hundred years, both in imitation and in opposite reaction.
3. He wrote for the home amateur, the concert hall, religious functions and stage plays.
4. His work has never lost its value and it's heard everywhere, even after 200 years.
5. He made use of current technology and adapted his compositional style to the evolving pianoforte and the orchestra. In fact he was one of the first to use a metronome.
6. He expanded and stretched the rules of composition and his inventions were considered overly-bold, especially in his early career. Actually his late career was considered avant-garde even a hundred years later.
In the end I couldn't find anyone today (in the last 50 years) who exactly fit (even excepting the 200 years influence requirement).
Any thoughts?
http://lvbandmore.blogspot.com/2010/...beethoven.html
I think these are some basic facts about B which a modern equivalent would have to match:
1. He achieved fame and popularity in his own time, both as a performer and and a composer, tho his popularity waxed and waned dramatically.
2. His music influenced composers for the next hundred years, both in imitation and in opposite reaction.
3. He wrote for the home amateur, the concert hall, religious functions and stage plays.
4. His work has never lost its value and it's heard everywhere, even after 200 years.
5. He made use of current technology and adapted his compositional style to the evolving pianoforte and the orchestra. In fact he was one of the first to use a metronome.
6. He expanded and stretched the rules of composition and his inventions were considered overly-bold, especially in his early career. Actually his late career was considered avant-garde even a hundred years later.
In the end I couldn't find anyone today (in the last 50 years) who exactly fit (even excepting the 200 years influence requirement).
Any thoughts?
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