John Williams. Howard Shore. Hans Zimmer. All these "classical" composers wrote significant music for ballet, by the way, which is definitely comparable. Because they need to make money. There are a lot of people who compose music like that, they just can't make as prolific a career out of it as those from the past. There are many studios who hire people to compose cinematic music for movies, games, commercials, etcetera.
The reason they may be off many musicians' radar is because although they compose "classical" sounding music, they incorporate sounds, chord progressions, instruments, moods and musicians not at the disposal of the greats of yesterday. For instance, I'm sure Beethoven would compose something like this piece from Two Steps, but, he didn't know what he didn't know. Musicians today can draw from the past but add to it from the vocabulary of today. And, the Classical Era is long gone.
The impression that people there is no classical composer today is probably due to availability heuristic. When making a judgement on whether classical music is conducted today, one relies on memories of past classical music events. According to the classical music event database Bachtrack, most popular composers performed are dead.
Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that no new classical music is made, since the same old conductor names pop up everywhere. However, Bachtrack, separately highlights most popular living composers. They start from the top Bachtrack PDF report on popular composers :. Wiki page on availability heuristic. There are lots of them. Their works are maybe not played so much in big bombastic buildings like was done hundreds of years ago so maybe you are looking in the wrong places.
If you look for music for CD albums, computer games, movies and other things you should find lots of them. Masters like Mozart and Beethoven weren't respected then like they are today A work becomes classic when, later on, enough folks realize that it was their favorite all along and do things like Disney's Fantasia to keep them alive.
We know of Mozart and Beethoven, but they knew of dozens and dozens of contemporary composers whose works were promoted with or above the works that we know today. Time gives the wonderful opportunity to select classic works with clarity, giving less consideration to the personal advantages enjoyed by the artists and giving more consideration to what we like about the work ourselves. An interesting and maybe relatively famous example is Easley Blackwood.
Lack of general interest in classical music relegated it to the academia, and there it became very exploratory, experimental, 'researchy'. Most of today's working composers are even forced to pursue this path as this is what gets funded and commissioned. You might for instance not get a grant if you decide to explore established harmony as opposed to serial music. IMO there is still lots of new possibilities within existing harmonic framework and XX century jazz proven that, whereas the world of classical music drifted into serialism and even more experimental forms.
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