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What music of today will be performed in well-attended concerts 200 years from today?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) April 22nd, 2013

In music, the Baroque Period began in 1600, and the Classical Period from ran from 1750 through 1820. During these two periods, the world’s great composers produced many hundreds of works of soaring beauty that inspire total awe in audiences even today and are performed often, year after year, all around the world. Will any of today’s musical works enjoy such popularity in 2,213 (assuming we don’t self annihilate before then)? If so, which ones do you think will survive, and why? What makes a musical composition timeless?

Don’t feel like it’s a requirement for answering, but I would love it if you’d post links to video or audio of a renown classical work, and a modern one you think captures the same feeling and will thus still be widely performed far into the future. All modern genres, even classical feeling movie scores, are welcome. Instrumental only, lyrics with musical backup, a cappella and rap all count.

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