Sentence examples for basis of composer from inspiring English sources

His book-length poem Brotherly Love (1981) details the life of Quaker leader William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania; it formed the basis of composer Ezra Lademan's oratorio of the same name.

That work would later also become the basis of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville (1816).

Is sexlessness the basis of equality for female composers, or is femininity an empowering element for great music?

His music, especially that of his chansons, was widely known and has been shown to be the basis of works by other composers.

Over the last five years or so, I've been trying to realize a dream: I want to engineer musical serendipity and make it the basis of my work as a composer.

Conductor Murry Sidlin hired them on the recommendation of composer Ned Rorem and on the basis of a tape he heard of the chorus in concert.

And Douglas Boyce's "Quintet l'Homme Armé" draws its thematic material from a medieval popular song that was the basis of Masses by several Renaissance composers, most notably Ockeghem and Dufay.

Modern classical-guitar technique owes much to the Spaniard Francisco Tárrega (1852 1909), whose transcriptions of works by Bach, Mozart, and other composers formed the basis of the concert repertory.

They had been inspired by a couple of recent concerts of choruses and movements by Handel and Haydn pieces that were well known in Europe but not in the fledgling United States and vowed to make these two composers' works the basis of their repertoire.

The director David Bintley used Marlowe's play as the basis for the ballet Edward II, first performed in 1995; the music from the ballet forms a part of composer John McCabe's symphony Edward II, produced in 2000.

PROFILE of composer Vittorio Rieti.