Sentence examples for during the composer from inspiring English sources

Leonard Bernstein was the one conductor who successfully challenged Stravinsky's approach during the composer's lifetime.

Part of the collection consisting of 36 songs was published in six volumes during the composer's lifetime.

Robert Craft, Stravinsky's assistant during the composer's last decades, was more sanguine about "The Rite," naming it "the prize bull that inseminated the whole modern movement".

Other projects include the complete works of Ravel, using recordings made during the composer's lifetime and either overseen or approved by him.

(The piece, a characteristic blend of finely calibrated schmalz and devilish brio, has been getting plenty of attention during the composer's centennial).

From the early days there's Messiaen's Cantéyodjayâ, a piano piece begun in Darmstadt in 1949 during the composer's first visit to the city and given its German premiere there during the 1952 courses.

Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher.

This "extremely individual and personal idiom" was, however, the product of a long musical apprenticeship, during which the composer absorbed many influences.

DURING his long life, the composer Virgil Thomson was gratified by the success of his operas on texts of Gertrude Stein ("Four Saints in Three Acts" and "The Mother of Us All").

"Poppea" had its première in early 1643, during the Venice Carnival; the composer died that November.

Ten years later, in 1982, a second Stravinsky Festival was held during the centenary of the composer's birth.