Fabulin 3,511 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 1977? 1993? 2005? 2015? Yet to come? I am wondering about 2019/2020. December 2019 Star Wars IX as usual brings seasonal attention January 2020 announced as the previous year's world's most performed living composer January 2020 concert in Vienna April 2020 in the poll of the British Classic FM radio Williams turns out to be the 5th most popular composer, behind only Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky (#6 in April 2021) June 2020 John Williams (and Ennio Morricone) bestowed with the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts November 2020 John Williams Awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal December 2020 John Williams in Vienna 'confirmed as the biggest classical best-seller of 2020, with 100,000 CD sales and 150 million streams' A glance at the Spotify monthly listens shows him currently in the top 10, and I presume he might have been relatively higher at various points of 2019/2020 History of Google searches seems to show a diminishing interest, but this is true for many composers, from Mozart to Goldsmith (not for Zimmer though!): The year of his death might be big too. It was for Goldsmith. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Probably the early/mid 90s, post-Schindler's List. That film and the score's large crossover appeal basically cemented his status as more than just a film composer and an actual important figure of the American cultural lexicon. And then he smartly capitalized on that to push that momentum even further in the concert/touring scene. He was as close to Leonard Bernstein as anyone could get. SteveMc and Fabulin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 5 hours ago, Fabulin said: The year of his death Are you suggesting that that might actually happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,051 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 That's the only way if he wants to be perceived as a good composer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,041 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Google Books Ngram Viewer provides some interesting insight into literary mentions... https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content="John+Williams"&year_start=1920&year_end=2019&corpus=15&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2C" John Williams "%3B%2Cc0 SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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