Sentence examples for radical composers from inspiring English sources

They were radical composers, though they didn't know a stave from a semi-quaver.

But by any measure, Debussy was one of the most radical composers in music history.

Because he never adopted atonal languages, Szymanowski has long been considered a conservative among the radical composers of the early 20th century.

Few Americans know that Copland was a member of a radical composers' group.

As Ada was a radical character, I thought she could have been a radical composer.

DEBUSSY was arguably the most radical composer of the 20th century.

One of Le Corbusier's last assistants, the Greek-born Iannis Xenakis, was also a radical composer, musician, musical theorist, engineer and – yes – architect.

Before then, he was a radical composer living under the Soviet regime, testing the new freedoms of the post-Stalin era by experimenting with serial and chance music.

For me the most outstanding and radical composer of recent times – Galina Ustvolskaja – published only some two dozen works and destroyed the rest, an act which in itself is a form of minimalism.

Viewed as a radical composer, Mr. Ornstein was ranked with Stravinsky and Schoenberg in the 1920's and with Varèse and Antheil in the 1940's, first as an innovator and ultimately as a maverick.

It may seem curious that Arnold Schoenberg, a Jewish refugee from Europe and arguably the most radical composer of the 20th century, wound up settling in Los Angeles, of all places, in 1936.