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composer

[kuhm-poh-zer] / kəmˈpoʊ zər /


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The composer spent most of his career writing alone, but he never entirely lost his love of performing.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Then in the evening, in a separately ticketed event, Disney Hall welcomes film composer extraordinaire Michael Giacchino for a double feature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Like Clara, Brahms, too, had been financially strapped and made slow, fitful progress as a composer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Concealment of his own life,” Mr. Worthen writes of Brahms, was something the composer actively desired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

They greatly impressed the mixed-race British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, whose 1905 Negro Melodies were arrangements of the Jubilee Singers’ best-known spirituals.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Artists like Bandalos Chinos, Alex Anwandter and Zoé are really great composers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

“The Score” benefits from the comic-bordering-on-caricaturish portrayals of some of its characters, including not just Frederick but also three court composers in cahoots with him to humiliate Bach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The new incentive is aimed at bringing back jobs for the industry’s editors, sound mixers, composers and visual effects artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Astaire considered himself a dancer first, but composers prized his singing—its flawless rhythm, clear diction and emotional restraint, a plain manner that let melody and lyrics speak for themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

It was not sending away for classical music CDs by mail, working his way methodically through the major composers that the catalogue recommended, and always sending his payments in on time.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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