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Yes, but you haven't heard of them, because they're obscure academics.
(And their music wouldn't necessarily be intelligible to you either, due to the musical analogue of inferential distance.)
Nowadays universities play the role that aristocratic patrons did in the past.
This is incorrect. Major record companies played the role of patron in pop music from the 1960s to the present.
Music made by academics that literally no-one listens to - seriously, a lot of this stuff is never played in public - is culturally irrelevant and only exists because of a small space not subject to feedback effects.
(I used to be a music journalist. This is a specialist subject of mine.)
Edit: By "culturally irrelevant" I mean that it has very little in terms of ripple effect or influence on things outside its small space. This is not to say it's bad music, or worthless - but that there's no promotion and little or no feedback unless the composer goes to particular effort.
Not what we're talking about. Vassar mentioned Beethoven.
I'm a composer (that's what "komponisto" means). Of the type you just called "culturally irrelevant". It won't suprise you to learn that I have approximately the same high regard for music journalists as you do for composers like me, and your "specialist" opinion carries little weight in influencing my view of these matters.
This is as it should be ;-) However, Beethoven did not labour unheard in academia.
And it's all music. "Classical" isn't one genre, not even a bit.
Anyway, poetry tops the recorded sound charts these days. It's very popular. Children popularly aspire to be poets.
It sure isn't. "Genres" are things like the symphony, the string quartet, and the piano sonata. "Classical" is a period in history.
Ah, I should clarify again - I'm speaking of "genre" as "marketing term used by people as if it carves art at the joints" - what you see on the cards if you walk into a record shop. All the jargon in this space is overloaded. See clarification above re: term "culturally irrelevant".
(And off-topic: got links to your music please? I'm interested now. dgerard at gmail dot com.)
Have you composed a Bayesian inspired opera about the Amanda Knox trial? Because you should.
Don't think I haven't thought about it....
Obvious title: Night Is To Be Loved (in Latin: amanda nox).
Edit: Another piece I've contemplated writing: Paperclip Maximizer for contrabass clarinet.
And, y'know, I thought "that picture reminds me of MS Office Clippy" before I got to the word they used for it and laughed loudly and embarrassingly.
I'll render it as '80s synth pop. (LMMS! Cheaper than a red sports car or a trophy girlfriend!) Lloyd Webber's days are numbered.
Next: THE SEQUENCES CYCLE.