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Everyone’s been chiming in on composers. I compiled the feedback from Facebook, Twitter, and this post, and it yields a very interesting list. Here, in no particular order, are the names that have been mentioned: Osvaldo Golijov, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Thomas Ades, John Adams, Arlene Sierra, Jennifer Higdon, Elliott Carter, Kaija Saariaho, Unsuk Chin, Heiner Goebbels, Pascal Dusapin, Thom Yorke, David Lang, Daron Hagen, Louis Andriessen, Michael Daugherty, Hans Werner Henze, Dan Deacon. We all know the label of “composer of the decade” is kind of meaningless. One commenter over at Sequenza 21 (Andrew Violette, a composer himself) opined that we haven’t heard of this decade’s composer yet because he hasn’t been played enough. It’s certainly true that there may be people who are remembered in 30 years from this decade whom we don’t know about yet, but I intended my question differently: who’s the composer who actually
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