The phrase "asked to compose a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when requesting someone to create or write something, such as an essay, report, or piece of music.
Example: "The students were asked to compose a short story for their creative writing class."
Alternatives: "requested to write a" or "instructed to create a".
Bravo!" And now he has been asked to compose a new work for the Proms.
Returning to London, he was asked to compose a press release extolling the bogus virtues of a batch of dodgy bulbs for car headlights.
Three very different musical talents – Jonathan Dove, Nico Muhly and Mark-Anthony Turnage – were then asked to compose a score for each part.
By S. G. Rosenthal and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, March 29 , 1941P. 9 The beginners English class in one of the city's night school was asked to compose a piece on the topic.
Over a recent lunch of shrimp and grits on a snowy day in downtown Cambridge, Mass., she talked about how surprised and flattered she was to be asked to compose a poem, particularly by this president-elect.
At the age of 12, living in Deir el-Asad, in what had become Israel, with a reputation as a precocious child poet, he was asked to compose a poem for a public reading.
But it is known that Ernest Schelling has also been asked to compose an opera to a libretto by Arthur Train, the invitation or suggestion coming from Otto H. Kahn, who has not been unknown to appear as a synonym for the Metropolitan.
Participants were asked to compose an argumentative text which described their preferences of whether they would like to live in a city or rural area in the future.
Geesin was handed the completed backing tracks the band had recorded, and asked to compose an orchestral arrangement over the top of it while the band went on tour to the US, which he duly did.
In December 2011, he was asked to compose music for a 400-piece orchestra, the Moscow International Choir, the Qatar Symphony Orchestra and the soloist Angela Gheorghiu for the inauguration of the amphitheatre in Doha.
In 1993, Australian Jen Anderson was asked to compose music for a screening of Pandora's Box.
