Sentence examples for minor composer from inspiring English sources

In 1835 36 he studied in Hörsching with his godfather, J.B. Weiss, a minor composer.

"Bax is a minor composer, probably not even second division; third at best".

He studied with his father, a violinist and minor composer, and he was ordained as a priest in 1651.

Emblematic was the career of the minor composer Hermann Heiss, who, back in the Nazi regime, had written a "Fighter Pilot March".

I thought 'My God, what does this mean?'" He eventually discovered his father was a sexually voracious minor composer who went by the name of Peter Warlock and who committed suicide in 1930.

People who feel they know enough about this sort of thing to pronounce on it tell me that Honegger is a "minor" composer: he barely figures, for instance, in the current bible of 20th-century music, Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise.

Without the Savoy Operas, he would certainly deserve a place in the pantheon of minor composers, not only for "The Lost Chord" and "Onward, Christian Soldiers", but for such pieces as his "Di Ballo" Overture, his Cello Concerto and his grand opera, Ivanhoe.

The lives of dozens of minor composers of the Renaissance are better documented than the life of Josquin.

An edition of the score by the minor Italian composer Giovanni Orefice received several concert performances in Italy and elsewhere before and after the First World War.

In the Grieg C minor Sonata, the composer's moments of rhetorical bombast were greeted by great surges of enthusiasm.

Many Brahms scholars assert that the somber and volatile Piano Quartet in C minor explores the composer's torment over his unrequited love for Clara Schumann.