In 1943, for his first Carnegie Hall concert on 23 January that year, Ellington composed one of his most ambitious pieces, a "jazz symphony" that would be his longest single piece - which he only performed three times in its complete form.
At 17 he was entrusted by Gounod with making keyboard versions of the senior composer's two symphonies, and immediately composed one of his own in very similar style but with extra sparkle and energy.
On September 1, 1939, the day that Hitler invaded Poland, Auden went to the Dizzy Club, on West Fifty-second street, where he began composing one of his most famous poems "September 1, 1939".
He worked on several designs for her, and even composed one of her scores (for If You Couldn't See Me, 1994).
The Romantic poet composed one of his most famous works after taking laudanum in 1797.
For instance, the Hyades, which compose one of the nearest clusters, have almost twice the abundance of heavy elements as the Sun.
In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses.
Mr. Constant composed one of the most famous musical tidbits ever written: the 30-second theme music for the television show "The Twilight Zone".
Tate Modern, SE1, Wed to 12 Jun In 1870 Léo Delibes composed one of the most charming, brightly coloured scores in the ballet repertory.
An added minor confusion was the spelling of the duet printed as "Whither Must I Wander," which is how Robert Louis Stevenson spelled the words and how Ralph Vaughan Williams spelled the title when he composed one of his "Songs of Travel".
