yurshta

Neo-Classical is used for different things: modernist classical, or modern music but in older styles like my own work which you can listen to at no cost at musicofthegods.com. The website is called Neo-Classical Jazz, but there are no Jazz compositions there, but some elements of Jazz do end up in a piece or two. The predominantly piano solos are some of the most advanced pieces since Liszt's Transcendental Etudes. The 5 plus hours of music contains piano/organ and piano/cello duets, two piano Concerti (and you thought nobody wrote them anymore.) There are also eight Neo-Baroque pieces which are reminiscent of the counterpoint and fugue style of Bach or the early Mozart. [Mozart's A minor fugue in his Fantasy and Fugue in C Major is one of the world's greatest four voice fugues. I love it! Big influence.]

Yes, quite a few composers still write pieces that are totally in older classical styles like Baroque, true classical or Neo-Romantic. Some of Vangelis' pieces would classify as Neo-Classical.

However, there are some other styles called Neo-Classical or Neoclassical that are actually something else. In some cases these are modern pieces combining jazz, modernist, classical, and pop elements combined with Electronica and usually synthesized. I'd say Yanni is one of the Electronica types, although a critic called his music "lush orchestral wallpaper" which is about what it is.

There was also a Neo-Classical movement that existed during the Romantic period where some composers prefered the true Classical forms. Some of Franz Schubert's, Mendelsohn's, Scriabin's and Satie's pieces are true Neo-Classical.

My own style is somewhat eclectic blending sometimes more than one style in a single piece for rather strange effects. Hope this clarifies things.

Sincerely, Yurshta