By the early 50's he had given up playing to become a full-time composer and arranger.
Naturally I loved the money: however, around 1965, I decided to quit and dedicate the rest of my life to composition". He flew back to London and became a full-time composer.
I wanted to be able to look back and say: "If my viola hadn't been stolen, then I would never have …" And what I wanted most of all was to become a full-time composer.
Xenakis was no architectural dilettante: before he became a full-time composer, he worked with Le Corbusier for a decade after his arrival in Paris from Greece in 1947.
The general dilemma for voters is this: do you reward Mr. Brooks, in recognition of his accomplishment as a noncomposer who composed a very successful score, or do you give it to Mr. Yazbek, to encourage a full-time composer who's likely to write other successful scores?
He was not a full-time composer and did not copyright any other songs, his son said, adding that his father wrote "The Hokey Pokey Dance" with a musician friend, Joe Brier, while playing for the summer at a resort near the Delaware Water Gap.
From 1880 until his final illness he was a full-time composer.
Determined upon his return to the U.S. to make his way as a full-time composer, Copland gave lecture-recitals, wrote works on commission and did some teaching and writing.
I thought about how I must seem to them (I don't teach; I'm a full-time composer -- a concept completely alien to them) when I talk about the struggle during the 80s between composer practitioners of Modernism, Minimalism, Romanticism, and Post-Modernism.
After a brief career in the navy, he turned to music full time and became a respected composer and teacher, counting Satie and Varèse among his pupils.
Mr. Salonen plans to compose full time when he leaves the orchestra, and he is certainly developing happily as a composer; into an oeuvre that has always been smart and sometimes thorny are creeping elements of ease, fluidity and fun.
