Why is Ludwig Van Beethoven's music is still popular today?

Beethoven was a contemporary composer whose works, by the 'middle' phase of his career, were being less and less understood and consumed. If he could assess how current society is generally one hundred years behind its classical music front, i.e. Retro-behind the times to the extreme about 20h century and contemporary music, he might just roll over and go right back to the long sleep, having already dealt with heavy rejection for half a lifetime once before, and that in a much more receptive atmosphere than our present time.

Or, he would be a living contemporary composer whose music was generally not appreciated or performed, except by a very few cognoscenti outside of academe, and only a few more within. The general public would barely be aware of him until his works were 'discovered' by another generation long after his death. He would be able to read and 'hear' scores to see what is current, but would have no idea of the timbre of contemporary instruments, and would remain near entirely clueless as to the sound of electronica (...since last we learned he would still be stone deaf.) Or he might continue to compose as he did, to a general reaction of 'why bother to compose more Beethoven?' (Do we need more Beethoven, Mendelssohn, etc?) because there is already a great body of that music and it is of the past, and because music has changed that much.... No resurrected Classical composer would ever come up with the interminably long and boring pedal point bass, i.e.

The virtually non-existent bass-line, which is all of Penderecki. Best regards.

Check out the music of Krzysztof Penderecki and Iannis Xenakis.

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