Sentence examples for an aspiring composer from inspiring English sources

Originally an aspiring composer, Carte became a music manager, representing the French composer Charles Gounod.

The title character is an aspiring composer who decides to take a teaching job just for a semester or two and stays for 30 years.

Natasha, also an aspiring composer at the time of their relationship, left Boumedienne, abandoned composition and rose to international acclaim as a performer.

His American period came about thanks to Jean Sibelius, whose 90th birthday the Koussevitzky Music Foundation had decided to observe with a study grant to an aspiring composer of the old man's choice.

It's easy enough to assume that an aspiring composer tackling his first orchestral work in 1899 at the age of 25 is bound to have been influenced by Wagner.

Burgess, I discovered, began as an aspiring composer and gradually became a writer who also composed.The sheer genius and indefatigable energy of his output remains a source of huge personal inspiration".

I read this book as a 20-year-old aspiring composer and found what Cage had to say about the nature of noise, about how we listen (or don't listen), and about how tradition and habit threaten to deaden our capacity for discovery, the musical equivalent of the young Martin Luther's nailing his theses to the door of the Wittenberg church.

Franz Liszt praised the aspiring composer, but Hans von Bülow judged one of his pieces "the most undelightful and the most antimusical draft on musical paper that I have faced in a long time".

At the time, aspiring composers typically pursued postgraduate study in Europe, learning the latest styles of twelve-tone music and soaking in the great traditions of the past.

Escalator became the Sgt Pepper of new jazz, or a parallel to Frank Zappa's genre-busting work in the same era – displaying an imagination and breadth that, for all the project's unevenness and periodically exasperating impenetrability, showed aspiring composers that the old sectarianisms in music could be swept away.

Maya, an aspiring singer and composer for a rock band that is moving to Tel Aviv, is itching to flee Haifa.