Anyone who reads up on the history of classical music hears the story of the “Bach revival,” turning on Felix Mendelssohn’s famous conducting of the St. Matthew’s Passion.
Are there other composers who have fallen so in and out of favor? People who were obscure in their time but are revered today, or titans of the art criticism world in 1850 who don’t get performed anymore? I know that in popular music, discovering an underappreciated gem from the 60s is a great critical coup, but it doesn’t seem to work exactly the same way in the classical realm.