Sentence examples for harmony composition from inspiring English sources

At 14, I started studying music: harmony, composition and piano.

Born in Vienna on Feb. 9, 1908, he studied at Music Academy in Vienna, working on harmony, composition and piano with Franz Schmidt, the composer, and conducting with Robert Heger.

He played 13-note scales, music without harmony, compositions on invented instruments.

In the summer months he went to France to study harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger.

He promptly began taking private lessons in harmony, counterpoint, composition and conducting.

Stott studied Geraldo's orchestrations, particularly those written by Robert Farnon, and he took lessons in harmony and composition with Matyas Seiber and in conducting with Walter Goehr.

She wrote to Arnold Bennett, Bernard Shaw, and John Galsworthy for librettos from which her husband might compose an opera, and she invited Igor Stravinsky to the Riviera to instruct her husband in harmony and composition.

This musical genius established the world's first known conservatory where aspiring young musicians learnt harmony and composition and were encouraged to develop musical theory further.

He left the school in July 1865, as a Laureat in organ, piano, harmony and composition, with a Maître de Chapelle diploma.

One of the earliest recorded notable students was Walter Battison Haynes (1859 1900) who was awarded the Mozart Scholarship at the Leipzig Conservatorium and on leaving the Conservatorium received the highest certificate given to a pupil; professor of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music ; organist and choirmaster, Chapel Royal, Savoy.

In 1901 he went to Warsaw and studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition privately until 1904.