since let`s say...after PROKOFIEF i don`t listen to a lot of music since i create most of the sounds i hear.so i want to know who`s my fellow compadres!!! no serialist,because they are actually not making music they only juggle with a mathematical concept that`s pretty far from the original purpose of music and that would pretty much make BACH regurgitate.12 tone followers feel free to argue with me anytime.....

It`s rather hard to say.
There may be hundreds of brilliant composers out there, but as people tend to be suspicious when encountering their works they`re little known...
Perhaps in a hundred years or so we will have new classics, but...
I guess that the main problem is not the skill...

come on OLGA at least gimme some names...but your right it`s not about the skill it`s about harmony.plain and simple catchy things catch people,why do you think lizt is unknown to the general puplic? he was the jesus of the piano but he lost himself in a delusion of sounds.people remember what they can remember.everyone has heard the second mouvenent of the pathetique because it was meant to be unraveled.

Hey! I`m with u on that Namus! It`s really not about the skills...I think it`s all about the simple structure, discerningly beautiful harmony and melody contour. I dun really have a fav. composer. Caz I ( and I think most people also) tend to feel different on different occassions. Ie: On certain days I`ll play Bach on my hi-fi, on some days Rach, then even the generally unknown, but beautiful Vaughn Williams or Holst. So??? Don`t u tend to feel different always? Then it wouldn`t be very easy to name a fav. composer.

continued...But if yr pin pointing it to `mordern` classics...then I would say I`m all in for Vaughn Williams and Holst.