Why did only western classical music gain prominence all around the world?

Are you asking why folk songs from other continents never gained prominence? Because European folk songs never gained prominence around the world either.

We're talking about Classical music here. There was no non-European equivalent, and thus nothing to gain prominence. As for why there weren't any, someone else has probably already given an answer.

>As for why there weren't any, someone else has probably already given an answer.
Which is?

So where are western musicians playing these exeptional pieces of art?

Yeah I could. Once again, just because YOU don't know one, doesn't mean there aren't any. I asked how old you are because normally only children are self-centered enough to think that their perception=the whole world

It's not culturally relevant for a westerner to spend his life perfecting the Shamisen?

What the fuck are you even trying to say?

>We're talking about Classical music here. There was no non-European equivalent,
Not only is this completely wrong, but Indian classical music predates Western classical music by like 1000 years

because western musicians credited themselves

you would be suprised how radical getting credits for your songs is in history

Western music is objectively better.

South is the Mouth

East is the Beast

North is the Fourth

This.

youtube.com/watch?v=Y3sbyesGcUE

It's in your picture: notation.

Proof of god's sense of humor and desire to torture me.

I mean, certain men. Not me.

Because they are western musicians now?

Here is great African music.

youtube.com/watch?v=jO4KTPP2o90

>Why did western classical [...] cuck the rest ?
>famous
Because the west invented music related fame. Most music historians would say that around the 18th century, with the bourgeoisie public emerging, a new type music consumption enabled musicians as composers or performers, especially singers, to be seen as individuals, "stars" if you want. From there on, and with all that bullshit german philosophers wrote about art in the next century, the west got hooked up its own farts believing that there was something like musical "genius" ( but only in the west of course ) emanating from individuals rather than a spirit talking through a performer like most other cultures tend to visualize this phenomenon, in a more humble way.
This opinion might sound like butthurt because i've just seen the movie "brother of sleep" Its full of that crap where a guy is a musical genius because he's a special snowflake who can talk to birds and stones and shit,a typical romanticized way to fathom creativity.
It's quite logical that a culture where a musician sees himself as a creative spirit wins over a culture in which the musician sees himself as a mere performer, a servant of this spirit, in terms of reception.

Debussy was massively influenced by the Javanese Gamelan orchestra he saw at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. Hence the whole-tone scales one finds in a lot of his work.

More recently, many new wave bands (particularly Talking Heads) were influenced by the polyrhythms in afrobeat.

Yeah orchestras around the world play orchestral music, that's the whole fucking point. You don't assume that because Gamelans don't play Beethoven, Beethoven's therefore worse than Gamelan music.