Who today could conceivably be hyped as "the next Beethoven"?

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Critics should bring back the "next Beethoven" epithet.

-- Hurting (Hurtingchie...), March 21st, 2005.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Burzum

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Aphex Twin used to get mad "next Mozart" hype.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

[Insert image of bewigged Biz Markie seated at piano in the "Just A Friend" video]

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's got to be someone Annie Lennox loves to listen to.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

They'd be on Blue Note, no doubt.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I take that back. In fact he's right here among us.

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― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Danny Elfman

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

People seem to prefer to use Mozart as the paridigm of great composers for this kind of comparison. I've recently seen Macca and Prince referred to as Mozart-like by critics. Partly I think because Beethoven is associated with certain stylistic and philosophic qualities that are very much of his time while Mozart is mainly seen in terms of an amazing facility.

― frankiemachine, Monday, 21 March 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Beethoven = more bombastic then....

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally remember people posting to the IDM email list that "if Beethoven was alive today he'd be making IDM dood" etc. etc. Ummm, no.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody. The last next Beethoven was probably Shostakovich.

― MV, Monday, 21 March 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Another ILM-Thermo mind meld! After witnessing a 3 Inches OF Blood video over the weekend I initiated this very conversation with a friend of mine. Although we did mention Aphex Twin the conversation didn't go far beyond mocking the video.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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