Sentence examples for compose the work from inspiring English sources

Perhaps this explains the time it took Mr. Sciarrino to compose the work.

"As an artist," she said, "I author the material, I hire my musicians, I book the studio time, I hire my engineer, I compose the work, I hand it in".

But after the death of Manon, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of Alma Mahler (by then the wife of the architect Walter Gropius), Berg was moved to compose the work as a kind of requiem and to dedicate it to the "memory of an angel"—Manon.

Still in his mid-20's, Orson Welles was hailed as the genius of American movies; and if he owed a debt to his gifted collaborators, that's the director's job, after all, to draw on the talents around him to compose the work of art the audience sees.

The latter was dedicated to principal percussionist Niel DePonte, who encouraged Svoboda to compose the work and who is featured on marimba; it was the first concerto commissioned by the orchestra for one of its musicians.

On December 7, he wrote to Aleksandr Zatayevich, a Russian composer he had met before he had composed the work, saying, "I hurry in order to get money I need by a certain date.

Mendelssohn composed the work, first titled "Overture to the Lonely Isle" in 1830.

He wrote his own libretto and spent the last seven years composing the work.

Mr. Harbison composed the work in 1980 for mezzo-soprano and piano, dividing it into four books.

Mr. Ashley composed the work in response to the suicides of three friends.

Scriabin composed the work in 1896 and was the soloist in the premiere the following year.