composing

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There have been many explanations for his decision to stop composing opera in 1829, when he was only 37 years old.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

It feels inevitable that she is stepping back into the spotlight after decades spent writing, co-writing and producing music for others and composing for film and television.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

From his first run with the Academy Awards arranging team in 2008, Walden was hooked; the job seamlessly blended his favorite parts about film scoring and classical composing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

But Kurtag resumed composing, "writing increasingly larger and more complex pieces".

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

In the last two years of his life, now profoundly deaf and mosdy bedridden by severe illness, Beethoven withdrew into a private sound world, composing six string quartets of astonishing, unapproachable intensity.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall