8 sentences with 'composer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word composer and other words derived from it.
• « Ford was an inspired composer, an original American, a legendary hero whose "car for the people" put the world on wheels. »
• « Although I didn't want to be a conductor, but a composer, I showed up and from then on I started conducting. »
• « She was also a musician and composer, writing music and musical works performed by both nuns and lay people. »
• « One of the most notable modernist composers was Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971). A Russian composer, Stravinsky was best known for the Rite of Spring. »
• « In contrast, the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) invented a form of orchestral music that remains a more important influence on avant-garde musicians and composers than something actively listened to by the general public. »
• « The composer Schoenberg's main innovations consisted of experiments with atonality - music without a central, binding key - and a newly invented twelve-tone scale of his own creation. »
• « One day in 1957, composer Johnny Mercer received a letter signed by Sadie Vimmerstedt, a widowed grandmother who worked in the cosmetics department of a shop in Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Vimmerstedt suggested that Mercer write a song entitled I Want to Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces When Somebody Breaks Your Heart. »
• « A composer knows that the space between the notes is as important as the notes themselves. In the same way, we must realise that our silences can be as expressive as the words we choose. This attitude creates greater harmony and effectiveness. »