Modern Musical Genius!

[Wonkyth]

For quite a while now I've had my eye out for cases of Modern Musical Genius, and have been thoroughly enjoying those that I find.
At the moment I have:
The Phantom of the Opera;
the Rocky Horror Picture Show;
Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog;
Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds.

Can anyone add any more?

[Calin Leafshade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMKT0gGEBJQ

Outrageous.

[ShiverMeSideways]

Do you mean only movie composers or musical geniuses everywhere?

If it's the latter, then I have to say Trent Reznor and Frank Zappa, hands down. They are two modern musical geniuses in my book, and have inspired me in all that I write .

[Nikolas]

Hm... Titles of works are NOT modern musical geniouses. Nor is Andrew Loyd Webber actually!  (no vomit emoticon here... a pity really).

For classical:

Schnittke
Ligetti
Messiaen
Boulez
Thomas Ades
Penderecki
and plenty more

in film music:

Jown Williams for sure
Bernard Herman Absolutely
Michael Kamen
Leonard Bernstein (where else to put him?)
Jerry Goldsmith
and many more

In pop/rock:

Radiohead
dEUS
NIN (already mentioned)
Frank Zappa (the definition of a genious for me and already mentioned)
and plenty more

[Anian]

Not exactly commenting NIN music, not really my cup of tea but I get it how someone might like it, but a modern musical genius, really?

[Andail]

Is this seriously a thread about musicians that people might find ingenious?

Or is it about really good musicals, which the first post seems to imply?

[xenogia]

Frank Zappa is one of the most prolific 20th century composers out there.

Philip Glass is another one, as for pop/rock I would have to say Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree.

and Meshuggah, they have started a whole new genre.