20th century classical music in the 21st century.

13 MP3 Songs
CLASSICAL: Contemporary



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Powerfully creative and incredibly prolific, David Dean Mendoza is an emerging remarkable young composer who has been tremendously successful at composing outside the conservative classical mainstream.
He is one of the few who has discovered alternative ways of getting beautiful art music out to the community without having to compromise his musical language.
Always the experimenter with musical technique, he is mostly known for his chamber music and especially the solo viola. Stylistically shifting, his focus has been to produce idiomatic music for instruments that have little repertoire.

"Composers are like princes who bestow priceless gifts to humanity without hope of return." - John Cage

"The few pennies so patronizingly offered the composer for his work amount to payment so meager as to be totally absurd; no sane person would give his time for such a pittance."
- Richard Maxfield