While listening to the closing movement of the Brahms Violin Concerto over the closing credits of "There Will Be Blood" last night, I was thinking to myself "This sounds like that awful woman violinist I hate so much, now what is her name?" And sure enough, later in the credits, there was her...
Allan Pettersson, Symphony 5
I'm astonished that in the decades that I've been immersed in classical music, I've never heard of this composer until recently. I haven't made it through all 15 symphonies yet, but the 11 I've heard so far are just incredible!