Do Classical Composers Make Money off of their music today?

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As an example, Bach has approx. 6 million listeners monthly on Spotify. Who gets those royalties? Are they profit for streaming services? Donated? Given to a trust?

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Where it gets really interesting—and by interesting I mean tragic—is when classical musicians play classical music on their YouTube channel and then get “copy strikes” and demonetized for pieces that are in the public domain yet claimed by random people. This happens a lot to TwoSet Violin.

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