composing

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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

However, after composing himself, Carter won all five of the remaining frames in the session against the four-time champion, although the Scot would eventually prevail 10-7.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Tennyson spent 17 years composing and revising the lyric sequence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

In a rare interview with a Hungarian weekly in 2017, Kurtag confided that composing can sometimes be "painful".

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell