Pioneers of electronic music Louis and Bebe Barron composed the first such score for a feature film.
Communal, or cenobitic, monasticism was first organized by St. Pachomius (c. 290 346), who also composed the first monastic rule.
Idelsohn composed the first Hebrew opera, Yiftaḥ (1922; "Jephthah"), which incorporates traditional melodies, and an unfinished opera, Eliyahu ("Elijah").
Casadio said that Van Gogh intended the first painting to look like a Japanese print, but that his spirits fallen by the time he composed the second.
He composed the first of his tributes to United States presidents, "The Franklin D. Roosevelt March," when he was still living in Hungary.
When Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Founding Fathers composed the First Amendment in defence of free speech, this probably isn't the sort of thing they were thinking of.
Mr. Stone also includes a less familiar newsreel clip of Shostakovich after he composed the Seventh Symphony, which became a hymn to the Siege of Leningrad.
Eimert was soon joined by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who composed the first really important tape composition from this studio, the now-famous Gesang der Jünglinge (1956; Song of Youth).
The Austrian émigré writer Stefan Zweig composed the first draft of his memoir, "The World of Yesterday," in a feverish rapture during the summer of 1941, as headlines gave every indication that civilization was being swallowed in darkness.
