Joe Hagedorn: >Most recent classical music composers I've heard are from over a hundred >years old. The most recent seem to be about fifty years ago. Is anyone >still writing classical music? Are there any Mozarts or Beethovens alive >today? No. Both families died out long before now. The last good composers with the family names "Mozart" and "Beethoven" died in 1791 and 1827, respectively. Steve Schwartz