That's true about Mahler, Ned but maybe people should be reminded that Schoenberg was of the opinion that, "One day", people would be singing his music in their bathrooms. It could well have been the case if you'd passed by the bathrooms of the late Hans Keller or Sir William Glock you might have caught the strains of Moses und Aron issuing forth but, generally speaking, what Schoenberg predicted hasn't happened and people still prefer Carmen.
As for Messrs. Birtwistle, Ades and Boulez there could come a time when their output gains a widespread appeal but I'm inclined to think that they will be numbered among those thousands of other composers in music history (maybe like Cecil Gray or Mason) who thought their own works of significance but whose day quickly passed and who are now hardly remembered at all.
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