Sentence examples for foremost composer from inspiring English sources

Theodorakis, with his wild, shock-white hair and imposing eyebrows, is Greece's foremost composer.

There are striking parallels between Sibelius and Denmark's foremost composer of our century, Carl Nielsen.

Although he won a Pulitzer Prize for an orchestral work, Mr. Rorem is arguably America's foremost composer of songs.

The European Silent Screen Virtuosi ensemble also appeared, with musical director Günter Buchwald, widely regarded as the foremost composer of accompaniments for silent films.

William Billings, (born Oct. 7, 1746, Boston, Mass., U.S. died Sept. 26, 1800, Boston), foremost composer of the early American primitive style, whose works have become an integral part of the American folk tradition.

According to Steve Mackey, a professor of music at Princeton University, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a favorite of the great guitarist Andres Segovia, joins Villa- Lobos as the century's foremost composer for guitar.

His 61 music publications contain masses, motets, chansons, and frottole by the foremost composers of the 15th and early 16th centuries, among them Josquin des Prez, Jean d'Okeghem, and Loyset Compère.

In the course of Fauré's lengthy career, he became one of the foremost composers of French choral and sacred music.

It inspired some of the foremost composers and painters of the day, becoming the primary theatre platform for the most up-to-date work in the arts.

When Barber began work on the score of Vanessa in 1954, he was already regarded as one of the US's foremost composers of orchestral and vocal music.

But at least now it has happened solidly and truly, and Grisey is thoroughly established among the foremost composers of his generation.