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composer

[kuhm-poh-zer] / kəmˈpoʊ zər /


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Time marched on, and in 1996, when the two-time Oscar winner was directing his first feature, “August,” he asked composer George Fenton if he would score the film.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

It was immortalized by the composer Johann Strauss II as “The Blue Danube,” but the views from today’s cruise-ship windows are heavy on the grey-brown hues of dried-up riverbeds.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

But their first act was promising, and a lunch with Kallman in New York further reassured the composer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Called out for bows, composer and singer fell into each other’s arms with the same ardor they had brought to the creation of their masterpiece.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

By a strange quirk of fate, this ambitious choral composer found himself working in the one building in the world which, by dint of its architecture, was responsible for a new style of choral music.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

At one point, an exasperated Wataka pulled out his phone to prove that the composers had been dead for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Besides Berlioz, the lineup featured works by composers from the 18th to early 20th centuries, such as Franz Joseph Haydn and Paul Dukas, that have long been in the public domain.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Despite the art form’s foreign origins, composers such as Antonín Dvořák, George Gershwin and Charles Ives have managed to convey our country’s spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Phil and at 67 having become one of the world’s most impressive conductors and composers, he is moving back to L.A., where he will become the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

One of the first named composers worth knowing about was a woman - a spectacularly clever and imaginative German woman, Hildegard of Bingen, who was born in 1098.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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