Are there still classical composers today?
According to the classical music event database Bachtrack, most popular composers performed are dead. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that no new classical music is made, since the same old conductor names pop up everywhere.
Are there any modern day composers?
Composers like Danny Elfman and John Williams really are 21st-century master composers, so it is not unlike there has not been classical-esque music being composed.
What composer is still alive?
Top 10 Living Composers
- Jenkins – The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (15)
- Ungar – The Ashokan Farewell (19)
- Lord – The Durham Concerto (28)
- Shore – Lord of the Rings (44)
- Morricone – The Mission (68)
- Lord – Boom of The Tingling Strings (79)
- Einaudi – Le Onde (85)
- Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel (88)
Who are some famous 20th century composers?
– Leoš Janácek. Leoš Janácek was a Czech composer who supported nationalist tradition in music. – Gian Carlo Menotti. – Carl Nielsen. – Carl Orff. – Sergey Prokofiev. – Richard Rodgers. – Erik Satie. – Arnold Schoenberg. – Aleksandr Scriabin.
Who are the greatest poets of the 21st century?
John Caddy.
Who are the best modern classical composers?
Mark Anthony Turnage. If you think classical is stuffy and pompous,get this: Mark Anthony Turnage wrote an opera called Anna Nicole based on – you guessed it –