The year is 2150?

The blips:

Michael Nyman

Philip Glass

Ludovico Einaudi (yuck!!!)

John Rutter (sorry, i.jones)

Karl Jenkins

Remembered:

Arvo Pärt

Erkki-Sven Tüür (you mark my words!)

John Corigliano

John Adams

Steve Reich

John Woolrich

Mark Anthony Turnage

Peter Sculthorpe

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Henri Dutilleux

Elliott Carter

With so many great contemporary composers dying in recent times (Stockhausen, Ligeti, Berio), my 'remembered' list is smaller than it might have been a while back.

I think film music lives on in a different way and people like John Williams, Howard Shore and Danny Elfman will live on through the material for which they have written music. My lists above concentrate on 'concert' composers.

Stockhausen a blip

Boulez a blip

(they will wonder how we could be taken in by such)

Brian Ferneyhough, a blip

Morten Lauridsen - remembered

John Williams - I doubt very much.

Bet there are other writing to day who we haven't even heard about who people will be lauding 150 years hence

No, Erich Wolfgang Korngold isn't a household name, but should be. Typical of how the recent music establishment has looked down its collective supercilious nose at any one who dared to write a tune - and tunes for Hollywood as well. Oh, my dear, we cannot leave our ivory towers and mix with the great unwashed. More Korn than Gold, I don't think. Boulez - Poolez.

John Williams (I like is orchestration!) and 'maybe' Boulez. Not because is music is exactly 'beautiful'. I think is conducting made his famous and then people started listening to his music 'because' of is conducting techniques.

'Some' of is compositions are interesting and very picturesque and the idea of chance music is a movement. Movements and their pioneers aren't usually forgotten. Even though some of them (like Dadaism) last only a couple of years and aren't (IMHO) of any particular significance. They just pave the path for new and more moderate movements to come (well, this is significance in a way) such as stream of consciousness, which was the fruit of dadaism, a lot more moderate and a lot more sensical.

THANKS FOR THE BRILLIANT QUESTION!

And Arvo Part of course. Because he started a movement too.

Edit: It is sort of like Hegel's historical philosophy! There are always two opposite compositional techniques (philosophies in tat case) and then comes something in between (between minimalism and chance music). I am waiting eagerly for that in between style.

"museumsandburritos": Is one to assume that you enjoy frequenting museums, and enjoy burritos?

And "Erich-----who"?

You'll have to either forgive or indulge me; I guess that I'm just an old "fuddy duddy"(if there is such a person),or an "anachronism", just a ghost from out of the misty past.

But when you go beyond Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring" or say, Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances", you lose me.

I simply cannot abide most modern/contemporary music. Composers such as Glass and Boulez, leave me "freezingly" cold: dead, lifeless, totally unmoved.

I guess that I'm just an "old dog, that can't be taught any new tricks".

Forlornly(?),

Alberich

John Williams, Arvo Part (but of course, i am biased), George Crumb, Howard Shore (people that score soundtracks for movies will probably stand more prolific)

I concur on Arvo Part. I also think John Adams, Elliott Carter (yes he's still alive!) and Steve Reich will also be among the "standard" composers.

I think John Williams will be remembered for his prolific contribution to "popular" (as popular as classical music gets these days) scores to movies.

People like John Williams, Hans Zimmer(yeah ok maybe i'm biased).

What do you mean? They'll all be remembered! Especially John Williams!

I'll throw in a plug for John Rutter ... very nice choral work.