Sentence examples for poor composer from inspiring English sources

MR: It's unfortunate, and like you say, the poor composer is stuck in the middle in some cases.

Poor composer Anton Rubinstein, who had the bad luck to follow Beethoven by only half a generation, and who is said to have physically resembled him.

It opens with its title character (Nina Pens Rode), an opera singer of a certain age, telling her husband (Bendt Rothe), a renowned lawyer about to be named a cabinet minister, that she will leave him for a poor young composer.

It received poor reviews ("a composer drawing on his comprehensive knowledge of music from Berg to Bernstein, awkwardly searching for an original voice"), but he remains proud of it and the fact it sold out houses and became a bestselling DVD.

LONDON — To think that all this time that poor old half-faced composer hasn't been dead at all, just stewing in his lust for greater glory.

After a long hiatus he came out in 1993 with Body & Soul, a charmingly composed novel of education in the mode of Dickens (and the spirit of Hollywood of the '40s) about the rise of a poor young pianist and composer from New York City.

Kennedy has surmised that Holst's economy of style was in part a product of the composer's poor health: "the effort of writing it down compelled an artistic economy which some felt was carried too far".

Throughout his life, Copland wondered about the "historically poor showing" of women composers.

So was the composer, if in a less savoury way; poor Flora gets thoroughly upstaged by her kid brother, in whom Britten is much more interested.

According to composer Brad Buxer, the King of Pop worked in secret on the game, requesting anonymity due to the poor sound quality of the finished product.

He grew up poor, fled to California as a teenager and worked at a bank while honing his skills as a singer and composer.