Favourite/most important piece composed during your lifetime?

[Daverz]

A bit later I heard Crumb's "Star child" ( on the radio - possibly a radio broadcast of the first performance with Boulez???).
The trombone-soprano duet still is a knock out.
The cd recording on Bridge is afaik the only one.

There's a live Boulez recording from 1977 with the New York Philharmonic that's on the streaming services. 



"Star-Child was specifically written for Irene Gubrud (soprano), Pierre Boulez, and the New York Philharmonic, and they all performed the premiere of the piece on May 5, 1977. Boulez, David Gilbert, James Chambers, and Larry Newland conducted the piece. Gubrud, the Boys' Choirs of the Little Church Around the Corner and Trinity School, and the Bell Ringers of Trinity School in New York all sang in the premiere."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-Child

[vandermolen]

I'd like to add Kabelac's 'Mystery of Time' (completed in 1957)

[Jo498]

I am not well versed in music since the 1970s and it's been a while that I listened to the ones I'll nominate. They are certainly important and I remember them as among the favorites by these composers.

Ligeti: Etudes for piano (1980s)
Carter: A Symphony of three orchestras (1976-77) and/or Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei

[pjme]

I discovered Kabelac through his percussionworks as performed by Les percussions de Strasbourg - a concert at the university of Louvain.
The Supraphon /Ancerl LP (later cd) with Mystery of time, Hamlet improvisation and Reflections left a lasting impression.
I will add Frank Martin's Requiem  (late seventies) as another work that became a real "favorite".

[Wanderer]

Ligeti: Etudes for piano (1980s)

A favourite! And composed during my lifetime. Added to my list. 😎

[staxomega]

In terms of importance, late Feldman without question. For favorites either Piano and String Quartet or Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello.

[amw]

Not sure about most important—how am I supposed to qualify importance? Very little music written since 1992 has had widespread influence due to the ever increasing market segmentation, declining relevance of classical music, and limited performance opportunities.

The most likely candidates within the classical field are Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, Haas in vain, Adams Become Ocean, Reich Different Trains, Stockhausen Klang. Not sure what the most influential overall has been.

For personal favourites? At the moment I would pick Ratkje Crepuscular Hour.

[KevinP]

Very little music written since 1992 has had widespread influence due to the ever increasing market segmentation, declining relevance of classical music, and limited performance opportunities.

Why 1992 specifically? Just curious.

[amw]

I am 30 years old.

[LKB]

I am 30 years old.

Lord...

I would give everything Todd owns to be thirty again. 

[KevinP]

Okay, that's pretty obvious now that I made you point it out. For some reason I was thinking the CD market did something that year or some-such.

[aukhawk]

I would give everything Todd owns to be thirty again. 

In today's world? No thanks.

[71 dB]

Very little music written since 1992 has had widespread influence due to the ever increasing market segmentation, declining relevance of classical music, and limited performance opportunities.

As a side note, electronic dance music peaked in 1992. It was the "magic year" of that genre.

[Florestan]

I am 30 years old.

Probably among the youngest GMGers. Enjoy it while you can! 

[Brian]

I'm 33. I just haven't decided on my answer to the question yet. 

[vers la flamme]

I'm 27, which makes this question even harder I think Penderecki's 3rd and 7th symphonies might qualify for the topic of this thread.

[Florestan]

I am 30 years old.

I'm 33.

I'm 27

Biologically speaking, I could be your father... which is a poetical way of saying I am (gettting) old.   

But then again, my son will turn 10-yo next March, so I guess age is just a figure on the ID. 

May God preserve us all young at heart --- and may we all die young and as late as possible. 

[Brian]

amw and vers - maybe we should start a Diner thread for millennials and younger, no old folks allowed to post or reply 

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Not sure what the most "important" work of the last 33 years is, amw might be right that it is "Become Ocean." Actually, the most performed work might be Morten Lauridsen's "O magnum mysterium" (1993)?

As for my own favorites...
Christopher Rouse's flute concerto and Symphony No. 5
David Matthews' Symphony No. 9
Esa-Pekka Salonen's cello concerto
Fazil Say's violin concerto "1001 Nights in the Harem"
Lera Auerbach's preludes for cello and piano
Gabriela Lena Frank's chamber music
Jonathan Leshnoff's cello concerto and violin concerto No. 2
Aaron Jay Kernis's musica celestis
Penderecki's Sextet and horn concerto "Winterreise"
Kalevi Aho's Symphony No. 9, Symphonic Dances, flute concerto, trombone concerto, horn concerto

[Florestan]

amw and vers - maybe we should start a Diner thread for millennials and younger, no old folks allowed to post or reply 

Kids will always behave like kids... 

[Symphonic Addict]

These ones stand out for me:

Rautavaara: Symphony No. 8
Penderecki: Piano Concerto, Symphony [No. 6]
Vasks: Symphony No. 2, Viola Concerto, Violin Concerto