Favorite Contemporary Composer

[stravinskylover]

Also say why, and your favorite piece by your favorite contemporary composer.

[mjames]

They aren't contemporary...


Hell one of them even died almost a 100 years ago; not to mention that he was also born in the middle of the 19th century.

[stravinskylover]

Really? A lot of competitions I entered that required contemporary (20th century) allowed Busoni, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky to count as contemporary.

[cometear]

They aren't contemporary...


Hell one of them even died almost a 100 years ago; not to mention that he was also born in the middle of the 19th century.

They're all most definitely contemporary.

[ahinton]

They're all most definitely contemporary.

With whom? Does not the term "contemporary" at least imply the living - at least to those of us who are still alive and able to start threads such as this one?

Best,

Alistair

[stravinskylover]

Okay fine. Choose your favorite 20th or late 19th century composers.

[cometear]

With whom? Does not the term "contemporary" at least imply the living - at least to those of us who are still alive and able to start threads such as this one?

Best,

Alistair

The living are apart of the category of contemporary but the category is not limited to them. I consider anyone during the 20th century or later contemporary as they are apart of that time period.

[cometear]

Prokofiev definately!

[ahinton]

The living are apart of the category of contemporary but the category is not limited to them. I consider anyone during the 20th century or later contemporary as they are apart of that time period.

Well, you might do that, but this would constitute a complete redefinition of the word "contemporary"; I have no idea what age you are but, at the very least, if a composer was already dead before you were born, he/she cannot be said to have been contemporaneous with you. Which of us here was alive in the early 1920s when Busoni was still composing his last works?

Best,

Alistair

[theholygideons]

contemporary = con+tempus (together in + time),  case closed.

[kevin69]

Who is your favourite 21st century composer?

[ahinton]

contemporary = con+tempus (together in + time),  case closed.

Indeed. In fact, since I've never encountered the term in the way that the OP used it here (i.e. meaninglessly), I'm rather surprised that it's take this long to establish that its use here runs wholly counter to the composers originally mentioned.

Best,

Alistair

[mjames]

Busoni is late romantic

The rest are modern, not contemporary.

[j_menz]

Surely contemporary, in the abstract - ie not as in contemporary with, say, Bach - means alive (or possibly very recently having ceased to be). How can you expect people to take "classical" music seriously if all they ever see of it predates their own lives? If competitions etc ask for contemporary, show them what it means and play something from now.

[ahinton]

Surely contemporary, in the abstract - ie not as in contemporary with, say, Bach - means alive (or possibly very recently having ceased to be). How can you expect people to take "classical" music seriously if all they ever see of it predates their own lives? If competitions etc ask for contemporary, show them what it means and play something from now.

Quite. I note tht Shostakovich has now been dragged into the prescribed list; well, he has been dead for only 38 years...

Best,

Alistair

[ale_ius]

One of severals favorite - 20th century (mid-late) = Otar Taktakishvilli

-because music from that region is fascinating
-for solo piano? probably this thing.

& his first piano concerto is very fines too!

-Alee Marie..

[cometear]

One of severals favorite - 20th century (mid-late) = Otar Taktakishvilli

-because music from that region is fascinating
-for solo piano? probably this thing.

& his first piano concerto is very fines too!

-Alee Marie..

Amazing music!!