Christopher Smith wrote:
On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, at 03:02 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I cannot think of a single composer, in any genre, who having been considered great at the age of 150, came to be considered insignificant, or even minor, at any later time.
Composers, living or dead, do tend to go out of fashion around age 75. Formerly, this led inexorably to oblivion, but since ca. 1780, those of lasting merit get rehabilitated after a few decades in the doghouse. As far as I can see, this is a one-time, one-way process.
For composers of "age of 150", the limiting date is 1855. So your description actually focuses on a few decades of composition, and on those composers' current reputation. It neither proves nor demonstrates anything.
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