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Definitions for: Composer
[n] One that composes, especially a person who composes music.
Webster (1913) Definition: Com*pos"er, n.
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a
piece of music.
If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in
them, they at least . . . show an honest industry
and a good intention in the composer. --Addison.
His [Mozart's] most brilliant and solid glory is
founded upon his talents as a composer. --Moore
(Encyc. of
Mus.).
2. One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a
difference.
Sweet composers of the pensive soul. --Gay.
See Also: Aaron Copland, Alban Berg, Aleksandr Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin, Anton Bruckner, Antonin Dvorak, Arthur Honegger, Bach, ballad maker, Barber, Bartok, Beethoven, Bela Bartok, Bellini, Benjamin Britten, Berg, Berlioz, Bernstein, Bizet, Blitzstein, Bloch, Borodin, Boulez, Brahms, Britten, Bruch, Bruckner, Byrd, Cage, Carlos Chavez, Cesar Franck, Charles Francois Gounod, Chavez, Cherubini, Chopin, Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Claude Achille Debussy, Claude Debussey, Clement Philibert Leo Delibes, contrapuntist, Copland, Couperin, Coward, Czerny, Debussy, Delibes, Delius, Donizetti, Dowland, Dukas, Dvorak, Edvard Grieg, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Edward Benjamin Britten, Elgar, Enesco, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ernest Bloch, Falla, Franck, Francois Couperin, Franz Joseph Haydn, Frederic Francois Chopin, Frederick Delius, Fromental Halevy, Gaetano Donizetti, Georg Friedrich Handel, George Enescu, George Frederick Handel, George Gershwin, George Percy Aldridge Grainger, Georges Bizet, Georges Enesco, Gershwin, Glinka, Gluck, Gounod, Grainger, Grieg, Halevy, Handel, Handy, Haydn, Hector Berlioz, Hindemith, Honegger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Jacques Francois Antoine Ibert, Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, John Cage, John Dowland, John Milton Cage Jr., Joseph Haydn, Karl Czerny, Leo Delibes, Leonard Bernstein, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh, Louis-Hector Berlioz, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Cherubini, Manuel de Falla, Marc Blitzstein, Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Cherubini, Max Bruch, Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, musician, Noel Coward, Paul Dukas, Paul Hindemith, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Percy Grainger, Pierre Boulez, psalmist, Samuel Barber, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Edward William Elgar, Sir Noel Pierce Coward, songster, songwriter, van Beethoven, Vincenzo Bellini, W. C. Handy, William Byrd, William Christopher Handy
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