• rottingleaf
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused, Mozart is prodigious as a composer, and there are very few names like that.

    Naturally when people knowing what they are talking about say that, they don’t mean that every modern composer should try and imitate Mozart.

    BTW, about modern music - imitating something between Holst, Vaughan-Williams and maybe somebody else has been the mainstream approach to writing movie soundtracks for a few decades already.

    Irrelevant - I wouldn’t say so. Just the field is wider, so people usually shape their interest in music more variably.

    And then you start talking about somebody being a “prodigy” when performing on specific instruments, which is really a different thing.

    There are today’s composers not widely known and overshadowed by pop music (which could mostly as well be AI-generated, it’s all the same) or somebody like Einaudi (who is, sorry, not of Mozart’s grade).

    Tracker music, generative (not as in LLM-generated) music, various experiments I lack knowledge of music theory to understand and explain, but approve of how they sound and feel.