A friend who knew how much the composer liked that said once: "Mac, something dreadful happened a few weeks ago.
His success had brought on the long-neglected composerpressing applications for concerti and sonata, adapted to his more peculiar science on the violin.
Gaetano Pisani's talents as a composer had been chiefly exhibited in music appropriate to this his favourite instrument, of all unquestionably the most various and royal in its resources and power over the passions.
It was prepared for the composer in little more than two days; and may therefore rather be considered as an industrious effort of gratitude than of genius.
In justice to the composer it may likewise be right to inform the public that the music was composed in a period of time equally short.
Macaulay, in further support of his general proposition, maintained that a man might be a great musical composer and yet not in the true sense a man of genius.
Macaulay replied that Mozart was the Raphael of music, and was both a composer and a wonderful performer at the age of six.
A master of the orchestra and a composer of real individuality, he earned and deserved his place among the elect, not only by his great gifts, but by his abnormal energy in their development.
Dubois is an extremely prolific composer and has written in a variety of forms.
The fact that Durante never composed for the stage brought him a somewhat exaggerated reputation as a composer of sacred music.
The poet andcomposer stared at each other with bloodless faces.
The poet and the composer displayed the lining of their pockets as freely as the sculptor had done, but their capital proved to be a sou less than his own.
Besides, I share this apartment with thecomposer monsieur Nicolas Pitou.
Indeed, I was not responsible for all of it, for I occupied the room with a composer named Pitou.
I am glad you have never been loved by this one," returned the composer gravely; "she has a curious history.
If I may venture to differ from you, the music is haunting--the composer is my lifelong friend.
He succeeded Greene as organist and composerto the Chapel Royal in 1756, and in the same year was made Doctor of Music at Cambridge.
The hymn must be sung as it was made to be sung, and the composer being many years en rapport with the writer, knew how to put all her metrical rhythms into sweet sound.
The maker of this hymn has been confounded with the maker of its tune--partly, perhaps, from the fact that the real composer of the tune also wrote hymns.
In his old age, at the great Peace Jubilee in Boston, 1872, the baton was put into his hands, and the gray-haired composer conducted the chorus of ten thousand voices as they sang the words and music of his noble harmony.
Lamb, Shelley, Keats, Hunt and Hazlitt, was a professor of music who attained great eminence as an organist and composer of hymn-tunes and sacred pieces.
Some future composer will make a tune to the words of a Christian who stood almost in sight of his hundredth year--and of the eternal home he writes about.
He was engaged as composer to Drury Lane Theater, and in 1759 received from Oxford his degree of Music Doctor.
One of the experts consulted in this movement was an eminent Italian composer born twenty miles from Rome.
A singular case of the same tune originating in the brain of both author and composer is presented in the history of this hymn of Rev.
No other composer had such feeling for beauty of sound.
The Fantasia, which was afterwards repeated at a Philharmonic concert, placed the composer on a higher plane than anything he had hitherto done.
It is the temperament of the composer that makes his work.
It served to introduce Paderewski as a composer to an English audience on the occasion of his first recitals at St. James's Hall in 1890.
I had hoped that it would have been possible to round off this estimate of the pianist as composer by a consideration of a symphony at which he has been working.
The composer himself had a good deal to say to an interviewer of the New York Herald on this question of reminiscences in his opera.
When Paderewski was a professor at the Warsaw Conservatoire, he was a frequent visitor at my house, and one evening I remarked that no living composer could be compared with Mozart.
The composer made out a good case, but he forgot that, as Weingartner once pointed out, the most subtle form of musical imitation is that of mood and style, and not necessarily of themes.
The 'Habanero' is not even Bizet's, but in all the scores that are published is shown to be taken from a composerwho was alive when the opera was written.
His first public appearances were not so much as pianist as a composer who played his own music.
James Reese Europe is a composer of distinction and the leader of an orchestra which is constantly in demand among the most cultured and the wealthiest people of New York.
In the book just spoken of she describes an evening passed with the composer Wieck in his German home.
Clara Wieck, afterwards Madame Schumann, became well known in Europe as a pianist of eminence, and of Schumann as a composer it needs not now to speak.
And where the man was the composer of that love song and the woman the singer of it, it was almost a foregone conclusion that they would.
Whether his talent as a composer ran to any such lengths as that she, of course, didn't know.
But spurred as she was by the knowledge that the composer was listening to it and by her determination to win a victory for it, she flung herself into it with all the power and passion she had.
Then they rallied and gave both the performers and the composer what would pass in current journalese for an ovation.
The chauvinist detected German influence in the music (he had missed the parodic satire in March's quotations), and asked Heaven to answer why an American composer should have availed himself of a decadent French libretto.
He regarded himself as a great singer, and a marvellous reciter, and at the same time he was a great inspired poet and composer to whom verse and melody came spontaneously.
How often it misleads the investigator, the author or the composer into believing his ideas original, whilst the critic quite well recognises their source!
Hamilton was, in the prevalent literary sense, the composer and writer of the paper.
The fundamental thoughts and principles were his; but he was not the composer or writer of the paper.
In every age the song-composer had been allowed to construct his melodies out of the fewest possible tones.
Gombert was the composer of the bird-song, and, as she remembered how the refrain of this composition had affected Wolf the day before, she heard the door close behind the group.
Besides, her kindly nature and feminine tact made her grateful to Wolf for his hint of distinguishing, by the first performance of one of his works, the able conductor and fine composer upon whom she had imposed so fatiguing a journey.
Beissels--the Friedsam of the brotherhood--was not only the poet but the composer of the choral songs, and a composer of rare merit.
There is little in the revolution effected in music by the modern German composer in this regard at least that was not anticipated by his great predecessor, Orlando, full three centuries before.
It is, as Ambrose has hinted, as if the composerhad brought the angelic host to earth.
The great composer is worthy to stand beside St. Teresa, St. Philip Neri and St. Ignatius Loyola as one of the protagonists of the counter reformation.
He achieved this success by his great and manifold capacity, but, most of all, because in art he was the greatest assimilator and composer who ever lived.
That he was the first composer who wrote a sonata for the clavier is a point which cannot be overlooked, and in the evolution of the sonata he occupies an interesting position.
This repetition, also the third movement leading directly to the fourth, and the thematic connection mentioned above, would seem to show that the composer regarded the various sections of his sonata as parts of a whole.
But in the works we are about to mention, the composer suggests Beethoven, Weber, and even Schumann.
Scarlatti," in Sir George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, remarks that the famous harpsichord player and composer "has been called a pupil of Bernardo Pasquini.
These three would form an admirable sonata, yet the composer does not end here.
This cannot have been before 1759, as that was the year in which the composer came to London.
But it is as a musician that we are now concerned with Kuhnau, and, in the first place, as the composer of the earliest known sonata for the clavier.
Instances were given of sonatas in three movements by Corelli, but with that composer four was the normal number; with E.
Both composer and player were recalled, but at the same time the work was only a partial success with the public.
Could there be a more glaring instance of inconsistency, for instance, than Berlioz the composer and champion of ultra-romanticism in music, and Berlioz the critic and adorer of Glück?
These, originating from a composer of the first rank, must sooner or later become of general interest.
I think, however, that my amour propre as a composer has a great deal to do with it.
The scenery and costumes were rather old, for the authorities did not care to risk the expense of a very luxurious setting for a new work by a composer whose name was not as yet a guarantee for a brilliant success.
It did not produce, either upon the public or the Press, that impression which the composer had confidently awaited.
Undoubtedly the choice of this work was not calculated to display the composer to the Gewandhaus audience in his full creative strength.
Nevertheless Tchaikovsky's personal liking for the composer of the German Requiem was increased, although his opinion of his compositions was not changed.
The future composer had no alternative but to study these works in pianoforte arrangements.
In his Portraits et Souvenirs Saint-Saëns has given the following description of this concert, and I cannot refrain from interrupting my narrative in order to quote what the French composer says of my brother's Francesca.
Many excellent musicians live in Tiflis; the most prominent are the talentedcomposer Ippolitov-Ivanov and the pianist Eugene Korganov, an Armenian, and a former student of the Moscow Conservatoire.
I am half ashamed of what I am going to confide to you in secret: the listener was moved to tears, and paid the composer a thousand compliments.
Nevertheless, Cui did not handle the young composer so severely as on the occasion of his Diploma Cantata.
Why should not the composer gain mighty conceptions from the grandeur of our mountain scenery, from the howling of the storm through our giant forests, from the eternal thunder of Niagara?
Already as a boy of fourteen he composed an opera, which was played with much success at Berlin; he is now the first living composer of Germany.
The most interesting objects in Salzburg to us, were the house of Mozart, in which the composer was born, and the monument lately erected to him.
The Dead and the Deaf--Mendelssohn the Composer XVI.
It was indeed maintained that the composerof Undine showed an unworthy servility in the way in which he publicly acknowledged Spontini's talent.
The young composer had hard struggles with poverty in these days.
Rienzi" was then produced at Dresden, so much to the delight of the King of Saxony that the composer was made royal Kapellmeister and leader of the orchestra.
The composer is his own poet, and his creative genius shines no less here than in the world of tone.
It is on this remarkable work that Mehul's lasting reputation as a composerrests outside of his own nation.
Speaking of an infant child, our composer would say merrily, "That boy will be a true Mozart, for he always cries in the very key in which I am playing.
He produced works in rapid succession, and finally overcame all obstacles, and won for himself the name of being the greatest lyric composer which France up to that time had produced.
The young Florentine, after having served in the king's band, was promoted to be its chief, and the composer of the music of the court ballets.
The impresario, Merelli, believed in the young composer though, for he thought he discovered signs of genius.
Norma" was also a grand triumph for the young composer from the outset, especially as the lofty character of the Druid priestess was sung by that unapproachable lyric tragedienne, the Siddons of the opera, Madame Pasta.
The quarrel between the great Saxon composer and his opponents raged incessantly both in public and private.
As a composer of masses, however, Cherubini's genius is familiar to all who frequent the services of the Roman Church.
The pristine and vigorous brilliancy of the Polonaise was again suddenly given to it by a composer of true genius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "composer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
