Sentence examples for competent composer from inspiring English sources
Though a skilled violinist and competent composer, Leopold lacked his son's genius.
Born in Elmira, N.Y., in 1884, Griffes studied in Berlin and returned to the United States in 1907, a highly competent composer of German-style songs in German.
Wolfe's piece, which ran under the famous title "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's," was a tour de force of dispassionate hostility, characterizing Bernstein as a "more than competent composer" and then mocking him as "the Great Interrupter, the Village Explainer, the champion of Mental Jotto, the Free Analyst, Mr. Let's Find Out".
Today any halfway competent 19th-century composer goes down easier.
If the work of a competent hack movie-soundtrack composer had been produced before Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann, it would have been considered most extraordinary.
Although the late 18th and early 19th centuries did not exactly overflow with masterpieces, a trio of composers proved themselves competent craftsmen.
Thoroughly conversant with Latin and Greek writers, a competent textual critic, and a prolific composer of Latin verse, Scaliger was chiefly interested in developing an understanding and critical evaluation of the ancients.
Most young composers can probably persuade a competent soloist or small ensemble to try out a short work, but chances to collaborate with a professional orchestra on a symphonic piece are scarce.
The director of photography Mitchell Amundsen (Horrible Bosses 2), production designer Chris Cornwell (Ride Along), editor Peter S. Elliot (Think Like a Man), costume designer Olivia Miles (Entourage) and composer Christopher Lennertz (Ride Along) do a competent job, but nothing that elevates the proceedings.
The friend as well as the publisher of most of the English composers of the time, Playford was himself a competent musician and often included his own song and psalm music in his collections of music.
I'm not a fan of highly competent women bigging up their mistakes, and Ripley's describing her perfectly reasonable question of composer Hans Zimmer as "banal" made me cross.
