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Re:Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found by ericmcer on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:03PM (#41164994)
Totally different. When someone performs a piece by Beethoven everyone knows they are performing his work. Very few Beyonce/Taylor Swift/Nsync/whatever fans could name the people who actually write the songs. Classical composers were total rock stars of their period, they were well known and the face of their music.

Modern pop musicians have almost all of their work written by people who are intentionally kept in the shadows.

Being a composer is not a public facing profession anymore.

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Re:Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found by tuna74 on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:29PM (#41165272)
People mostly don't care about the composers/producers of modern pop music. But if you want to find out it is really easy on all music platforms (Spotify, Youtube music etc).

Being a performer and a composer is a very different skill set and a very different business model.

Also, it is very difficult to compare the amount of fame of someone in 1800 vs someone in 2020. I am not so sure being a composer was ever a "public facing profession".

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Re:Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found by lomase on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:05AM (#41169311)
It is, just not in the mainstream part of the music industry.
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