Modern classical music in gaming

[Kevin]

Well, pop music with a symphony is still pop music. I don't think it's really fair to these composers to compare them with Beethoven. They are more in the category with John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Soundtrack music tends to be short and simple and cliche and pompous and we love it. Everyone has heard of Beethoven, but relatively few people have actually heard a Beethoven symphony, or even sonata, in full. In truth, most people would rather hear the Boston Pops play the Star Wars theme, or the Super Mario Bros. theme, or Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.

You do realize the Beethoven, Mozart, and the like, did write pop music, or what was considered pop music in their time? Sure it was generally longer pieces than what our current short attention span population is used to, and not all of it was created as pop music, but then again, not all of the current pop artists create pop music either. They do more involved works and stuff, it just doesn't get as much play time, or as large of a listening audience, but some of it will stand the test of time, just like there is jazz that stood the test of time and jazz that was just pop as well.