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Don't worry about a small group of people who think that their music is far superior to what you're creating. In fact, try to get your works on a better known platform like Soundcloud or Reverbnation where you might get a more supportive response. Unless if one creates for an Elitist audience, people who make music should try to get their work out to everyone - I think that Classical was the Pop and Prog of it's day to be honest, depending on what is created and that's a compliment (There's a lot of "Hooks" in very well known pieces and Extended Epics in Symphonies...cheesy comparison, maybe, but just trying to connect something). It seems that they want stuff that's the Music equivalent of "Preaching to the converted", and that's a blind alley.

Now to get back to the thread question...
To tell you the truth, Elitists are in almost every kind of music not just Classical, but it seems that I feel in that area of music some of those who have critical voices are pretentious (as if they think they were born to be teachers and know it all) just because they feel that their skills are worthy of riding a high horse that's too high to climb down from.