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composer

[kuhm-poh-zer] / kəmˈpoʊ zər /


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Fenton also scored more films for British director Ken Loach than any other composer.

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

The actor plays the legendary composer during a late-in-life meeting with the king of Prussia in a play by Oliver Cotton at Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

By the nineteenth century, though, a dotted rhythm was only played if the composer had specified it with a dot in the notation.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Celebrated composers, from Monteverdi to Handel, Gluck and even Mozart, have written prominent roles with high male voices in mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Industry editors, sound mixers, visual effects artists and composers had said such a credit was necessary to lure jobs back from overseas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Pulitzer that Marsalis won in 1997 for his two-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio, “Blood on the Fields,” was historic: since the jury started honoring music in 1943, they’d never recognized jazz, only classical composers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

In the century leading up to Dunstaple’s time, composers layered notes on top of each other but chose only from a very limited number of possible combinations.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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