Not really a new discovery, but how we can forget about Hans Zimmer?

Can you recommend any Zimmer that isn’t a movie score?

@czarivey 

while you are at it, can you recommend a Nuevo Tango composer other than Piazzola?  I am definitely interested 

A few more composers:

John Adams.  I love his opera Nixon in China.

Thomas Ades.  Try Tevot, or the Violin Concerto.

Max Richter.   The Four Seasons Recomposed.

Frederic Rzewski.  Marc-Andre Hamelin's recording of his "The People United" is astonishing.

And on the topic of Philip Glass, I prefer many of his later, more sophisticated music in comparison to the early, more minimalistic works.  His operas Orphee (based on the Cocteau film) and Kepler (it rocks!) are particular favorites.  Also the Eighth Symphony, and the first Violin Concerto.

My tastes are more along the lines of @mahgister , but I concur with @simonmoon ,, that ultimately taste is subjective and we shouldn’t impose ours on others.

I think one of turn offs for me of the Second Viennese School (SVS) was the dogmatic approach of its adherents.  They loudly argued that tonality dead, that music must inevitably evolve towards serialism, in the same manner that Communism argued that Capitalism was dead and that world economies would inevitably be Red.  It isn’t the music that I necessarily dislike.  Unmoored from these ideological underpinnings, I find a lot of it worth exploring