Sentence examples for lesser composer from inspiring English sources
The task of cutting, pasting and generally arranging the score fell to the lesser composer but ballet specialist Riccardo Drigo.
(As the composer Harold Meltzer has said, "Dutilleux's music sounds whole and natural, free of what from a lesser composer would be glaring contradictions").
Why is the Met wasting its time on a lesser work by a lesser composer who is best known to operagoers for having made a garish mess of the ending of Puccini's unfinished "Turandot"?
Here I learned that La Cenerentola (Cinderella) was written, composed and staged within a mere 24 days – Rossini being "in the entertainment business" and prepared to outsource routine recitative work to a lesser composer.
If Pascal Rioult had set his choreography for "The Great Mass" to nonliturgical music by a lesser composer instead of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor (K. 427), it would look merely unoriginal and fakey.
In his opera "The Handmaid's Tale," which received its premiere last spring at the Royal Danish Opera and has just been released on CD's, he found a grippingly operatic way to tell a story so loaded with polemics that it might have crushed a lesser composer.
With almost no private pupils left, Webern had to resort to accepting such tasks as piano arrangements of works by lesser composers.
The higher subtleties of such works inevitably escaped many subsequent composers; Felix Mendelssohn had "abolished" the opening orchestral tutti, or ritornello, and had been followed in this regard by many other lesser composers.
The turn of the 20th century was a difficult time to be a lesser Finnish composer: Sibelius pretty much sucked the air out of the room.
Lesser known "composers" of the group included Wolf Vostell, who devised sonatas for jet aircraft, Milan Knizak, who mistreated records with a penknife, George Maciunas, who gleefully hammered nails into a piano keyboard and Dick Higgins, who fired shotguns at sheets of blank music manuscript paper creating a random "score".
Glinka composed romansy, as did Vladimir Sokalsky and a number of other lesser-known composers, and their qualities may have found their way into Tchaikovsky's music, as well.
