Predicting how music history will be written is a curious enterprise, probably foolish, possibly hazardous, and certain to be wrong. Moreover music history is a dynamic field, with constant reassessments. (For example, Hans Roth, a figure once lost to music history, is now widely understood as an essential predecessor to Mahler, if not simply a very fine composer in his own right).
That said, I venture that some of the contemporary (or near-contemporary) composers listed below will be found in future music history texts as the successors and late-discovered adjutants to the "Darmstadt-generation" of the 1950s. My listing is decidely biased towards more progressive or experimental figures, but I believe that it is precisely such figures who make music history out of making music. Lou Harrison Conlon Nancarrow György Kurtag La Monte Young Steve Reich Philip Glass Robert Ashley Alvin Lucier James Tenney Jo Kondo Zoltan Jeney Salvatore Sciarrino Clarence Barlow Wolfgang Rihm Walter Zimmermann Brian Ferneyhough Boudewijn Buckinx Kaija Saariaho Magnus Lindberg Daniel Wolf Budapest _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
