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Definition of Composers
1. composer [n] - See also: composer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Composers
Literary usage of Composers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"In the absence of composers, the early Middle Ages were plentifully supplied ...
These extempore attempts were imitated by composers, and hence arose the ..."
2. Music (1900)
"CONTEMPORANEOUS ITALIAN composers. BY A. BAZZINI. ... One of the better composers;
has written eight operas and an oratorio, as well as much for his own ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"... which the grief of a despairing lover is described in discords as harsh as
any that we are accustomed to hear in the works of the most modern composers. ..."
4. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"Most of the American composers not of German descent, as Edward A. MacDowell,
Horatio Parker, AB Whiting, ..."
5. Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures Delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell (1912)
"... AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY composers There is much of value to the student to be
derived from a study of the lives and art principles of the composers of ..."
6. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1850)
"34} iEE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT composers. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart,
Just as the whim bites ; for my part, I do not care a farthing candle For ..."