The phrase "as a composer a" is not correct in written English due to the misplaced article "a." It can be used correctly if restructured, typically in contexts discussing someone's role or identity in relation to composing music.
Example: "As a composer, I strive to create unique melodies that resonate with listeners."
Alternatives: "in my role as a composer" or "as a composer, I".
By now the versatile Hungarian master Zoltan Kodaly may be better remembered as an "ethnomusicologist and educationist," as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians labels him, than as a composer, a few orchestral favorites aside.
His command of the big line mirrored his chief strength as a composer — a knack for assembling monumental musical structures from a motley array of influences, ranging from Purcell to Wagner and on to Janáček and Ligeti.
Like Igor Markevitch, Leonard Bernstein, and Pierre Boulez before him, he started off as a composer — a lively, edgy one — and moved into conducting more or less by popular demand.
An extraordinarily versatile man, Burrows has been profitably employed at one time or another not only in the theatre and in TV but as a composer, a scenario writer, and nightclub entertainer.
"Live at Smalls," an engrossing record made over a few nights of gigs last fall by Mr. Barth's trio at that tiny New York jazz club, makes his case better than I've ever heard it before: as a composer, a bandleader, an improviser, and a musician of modesty and patience.
For it is this that is a summation of a lifetime of listening in and with landscape, of being useful as a composer, a teacher, and an inspiration to his colleagues, and it is a visionary renewal of a richness of musical discourse that you might have thought impossible at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st.
Kenny Wheeler, a great Canadian trumpet player who lived in England for a long time... Kenny as a composer, an arranger, an orchestrator, wonderful big band writing..
Offenbach considered himself just as great a composer, an in hindsight, maybe rightly so.
Schickele brings to bear consummate skill as a composer and an instantly recognizable musical voice.
As a composer and as a person, I feel he has a lot of generosity.
