Sentence examples for eminent composer from inspiring English sources

The authoritative painter of modern life Gerhard Richter is partnered with eminent composer Arvo Pärt for this year's Manchester International Festival.

He was born in Orange and grew up in Princeton, where he studied as a teenager with the eminent composer Roger Sessions.

The first concert has an impressive lineup featuring the eminent composer Kaija Saariaho; the pianist Margaret Leng Tan; the composer and musician Henry Threadgill and his current band, Zooid; the composer and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier; and the violinist Mark Feldman.

At the other end of the historical continuum, Mrs. Boatwright appeared as a soloist with many of the country's best-known early-music groups, including the Yale Collegium Musicum, founded by the eminent composer Paul Hindemith, and the Cantata Singers in New York.

In Italy a magnificent puppet theatre was established in the Palace of the Chancellery in Rome in 1708, for which Alessandro Scarlatti, with other eminent composers, composed operas.

Modern American choral music has been much enlivened by the contributions of Charles Ives (An Election composed in 1920), Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, and many other eminent composers.

The crux of the connection is the friendship between their fathers, who were eminent composers.

With Gyorgy Kurtag, Marc-André Dalbavie, Thomas Adès and Jörg Widmann — eminent composers all — signed up, the initiative is of major significance.

Toch was a teacher of considerable influence; a number of his students, including André Previn, became eminent composers.

The virtuosity of some modern players stimulated several eminent composers (including Heitor Villa-Lobos and Ralph Vaughan Williams) to write for the instrument.

Immediately after her husband's death, she invited a number of eminent composers to complete Lulu, including Berg's teacher Schoenberg.