Originally Posted by johnsamuelpike

Probably Richard Wagner. Not for his music, but for his antisemitism.

SSC, the reason people have to put these so-called "fossils" in their programmes is because people enjoy them. They generally do not, however, enjoy avant garde hogwash, as it lacks science and usually lacks any emotion besides sprawling lack-thereof, and is usually insufferably nerdy. What bothers you isn't the classical music, it's the comparison of your less-appreciated medium with a more successfully alluring era. Note, people enjoy period films and plays. Composers do write classical "imitations" very successfully and will continue to do so in the future, in my opinion more successfully than those who abandon tradition and craftsmanship just for the sake of being original, or rather, non-derivative, or whose vanity insists they appear to be beyond the influence of anyone else's ideas. In fact, I predict a new wave of composers who will follow their hearts and favor the more scientific classical styles, and be able to find their own voices within these styles successfully.

I found your comments to be especially asinine, and those of a pedantic, sneering modernist whose music has no allure whatsoever to those who have an appreciation for music that has withstood the test of time.