How do we get composers out of obscurity?

[Ken B]

Idea for another thread: How do we get composers into obscurity?

The fun part will be suggesting candidates, and then grabbing the popcorn!

[Jo498]

One could study what happened to Spohr or Meyerbeer in the late 19th or in the latter case early/mid 20th century. There are more comparably recent cases of composers falling into obscurity that used to be really big.

[71 dB]

Idea for another thread: How do we get composers into obscurity?

Some ideas are dead of arrival...

[Cato]

Idea for another thread: How do we get composers into obscurity?

That is our problem: the mediocrities who become dominant and drown chances for others who are much more creative and compelling.

[Monsieur Croche]

When a fair amount of recorded works by Joseph Marx are up for the auditioning of the global online public, and those are studio recordings, not the rarer one-off of the work being done in concert -- one can no longer claim that composer is 'obscure.'

On the other hand, I can not think for the life of me why Marx's music should 'idle' in place when the likes of Medtner is being consumed -- as it seems there is a sizeable number of the public who are apparently generally starved for more late and later well-written romantic but generic sounding thin-on-the ground music ;-)

Go figure....