Some articles on composers, composer:
... The term also refers to a circle of composers in the 1950s who orbited around John Cage Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff ... In the 1960s the work of the avant-garde Minimalist composers La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Tony Conrad, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley became prominent in the New York art world ...
... In this sense, the folklore was the major font of inspiration for the composers ... Some composers like Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha, Luciano Gallet and Alexandre Levy, despite having a European formation, included some typically ... In this event the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, regarded as the most outstanding name of the Brazilian nationalism, was revealed ...
... Composers such as Alfred Hill were educated in Europe and brought late Romantic Music traditions to New Zealand ... of the 20th century, is often credited with being the first composer to 'speak' with a truly New Zealand voice and gain international recognition for it ... Lilburn and other composers working during the late 1950s and 60s, including Edwin Carr, developed a new direction in New Zealand music that was distinctly separate from its influences ...
... Gombert was one of the most renowned composers in Europe after the death of Josquin des Prez, as can be seen by the wide distribution of his music, the use of his music as source material for compositions by ... the next generation of Franco-Flemish composers mostly wrote in a more simplified style ... liturgical, music – something which is next to impossible for a composer to achieve in a dense imitative texture ...
... Thomas Powell Knox joined the Marine Band in 1961 as a trumpet player and moved to the arranging staff in 1966 ... Three years later, Knox was appointed chief arranger and continued to compose and arrange for the Marine Band until his retirement in 1985 ...
Famous quotes related to composers:
“This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty—this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“My first childish doubt as to whether God could really be a good Protestant was suggested by my observation of the deplorable fact that the best voices available for combination with my mother’s in the works of the great composers had been unaccountably vouchsafed to Roman Catholics.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)