I think it's more just looking at the past with rose colored glasses and all that. Not to mention the fact that you probably can only name like 20 or so "great composers" over 500 years, yet there were thousands of competent and even good composers in that time, we just remember the best. No doubt some of these current ones (Philip Glass is my personal pick) will be grouped with the "great" ones in 50 years or so.
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