50 years from now which one or more film composer’s work will still be remembered and listened to?

Obviously John Williams’ and Jerry Goldsmith’s. Alan Silvestri’s, James Horner’s, James Newton Howard’s, Howard Shore’s, Ennio Morricone’s and Hans Zimmer’s. Or not? Who else’s in your opinion?

Stephen Oliver and Roy Budd, although your thread title only asks for one composer.

Assuming there’s still music in 2075?

11 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Stephen Oliver and Roy Budd, although your thread title only asks for one composer.

Thanks, corrected.

9 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

50 years from now? So when "The Complete Star Wars Collection" of 25 CDs, featuring music from all the 15 SW saga movies by John Williams and produced by Mike Matessino's grandchildren, will be at last released?

Yep.

8 minutes ago, Andy said:

Assuming there’s still music in 2075?

Yes sir.
 

11 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Stephen Oliver and Roy Budd, although your thread title only asks for one composer.

Btw it could be interpreted as one or more than one.  

And someone might think there will only be one film composer whose work will be remembered and listened to 50 years from now, someone might think there will be several.

8 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Stephen Oliver

I didn't even know who that was...

Time will tell.

1 minute ago, Thor said:

Time will tell.

Are you planning on living that long?

22 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

50 years from now? So when "The Complete Star Wars Collection" of 25 CDs, featuring music from all the 15 SW saga movies by John Williams and produced by Mike Matessino's grandchildren, will be at last released?

It won't. 

15 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

I didn't even know who that was...

In 50 years you will. 

What would really be interesting to know in 50 years:

Will cinema still be a thing?

Will film scoring still be a thing?

if so, what kind of scoring will follow the Zimmer style domination?

Will there still be film score fans?

If so, how far back will they mine the archives?  Will anyone listen to Golden or Silver Age scores?

We are a dying breed, and so is entertainment built to last.  The hang time of most media is quite brief, with little staying power in the midst of the vast volumes of content.  It’s all so fleeting. 
 

Nobody can even recall more than 3 or 4 iconic themes from the last 25 years, and that’s among film and film music fans. 
 

Unless another lightning bolt comes along to zap things into a new retro cool, everyone but Williams will be sort of like Lalo Schifrin… the name is familiar, maybe people can name one score, but they mostly associate him with a dated sound indicative of the time period. 

“Hans Zimmer?  Oh yeah he’s the guy that had that dated sound from the early century.”

”Alan Silvestri?  Oh, right that guy who did the Ant-Man music”

“Jerry Goldsmith?  Did he do James Bond?”

2 minutes ago, Andy said:

Nobody can even recall more than 3 or 4 iconic themes from the last 25 years, and that’s among film and film music fans. 

Speak for yourself, dude.

4 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

It won't. 

 

It will be just the OSTs re-released for the 24th time, this time for neural implant so you can hear John Williams' abridged programs straight into your head!

5 minutes ago, Andy said:

Nobody can even recall more than 3 or 4 iconic themes from the last 25 years, and that’s among film and film music fans. 

Most of us can remember iconic film scores from 1974 and thereabouts, so I don't see why people in 50 years won't be able to do the same for 2024 and thereabouts.

There will have to be a gateway to keep bringing in new fans.  Right now, I guess that’s Zimmer.  But who can say in 50 years if there will be a film or type of scoring to hook new listeners to want to explore stuff from before their birth. 
 

I guess I interpreted @JTN’s question to refer to “people” as in your coworkers and average Joe.  But I may have misunderstood if he meant film score fans.   But even then, I stand by some of my comments. 

In 50 years from now we will live in a world like Mad Max. Climate change will have turned earth into Tatooine and people will fight about the remaining resources.  Nobody will give a damn about movies or filmmusic.

Among film score aficionados? Everyone mentioned here, and more.

Among the general public? Almost no one. Considering that most people have no idea who most of these composers are today, the list is shorter than we'd like to think. John Williams, certainly. Goldsmith & Morricone? Probably. Shore? Perhaps, but only The Lord of the Rings. Everyone else, including (and especially) Zimmer? Probably not. 

Nobuo Uematsu

Yasunori Mitsuda

Joe Hisaishi

I'm afraid those will fall in the everyone else category. 

Of generations more recent than Williams, I’m confident only about Horner, Zimmer, and Elfman being widely remembered, though I think Giacchino will be too (he’s very popular outside film score circles) and Shore and Poledouris have individual scores that people will never forget.

All the artists @Jay mentioned are brilliant, though I think Hisaishi has the biggest chance of being remembered & listened to in 50 years, for obvious reasons. 

1 hour ago, Thor said:

Most of us can remember iconic film scores from 1974 and thereabouts, so I don't see why people in 50 years won't be able to do the same for 2024 and thereabouts.

Are there any iconic film scores nowadays that I don't know about?

Depends on who you ask.  This message board would say Powell has achieved iconic level with HTTYD.