Sentence examples for senior composer from inspiring English sources

At 17 he was entrusted by Gounod with making keyboard versions of the senior composer's two symphonies, and immediately composed one of his own in very similar style but with extra sparkle and energy.

Also appropriate was the presence here of Edgard Varese, the senior composer to whom Mr. Brown is closest not only personally but also musically in his Franco-American allegiances, his feeling for color and his sense of sound as movement.

Like Maderna, he studied for a while at Venice's Benedetto Marcello Conservatoire, but found greater fulfilment when he followed the senior composer to the more challenging musical environment of Darmstadt.

Among other senior composers interviewed during OHAM's first decade were John Cage, Lou Harrison, Ernst Krenek, Leo Ornstein, and William Schuman.

The trend was evident in much of the music by senior composers included in the festival.

This year, music by two of our senior composers who are celebrating their 80th birthday - Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies - together with a piece by William Mathias, who would have been 80 this year, is included.

PARIS — When Rossini in a celebrated 1822 encounter called on Beethoven, 22 years his senior, the older composer, according to Rossini, extolled "The Barber of Seville".

"Étude-Variation" by Gilbert Amy, the senior French composer and Pierre Boulez associate, was like some teeming 21st-century version of a Liszt Transcendental Étude, as Mr. Gottlieb put it.

George Apherghis, a senior Greek composer who (like his great, late colleague Iannis Xenakis) moved to Paris long ago, is famed in Europe as a master of innovative and challenging music-theatre.

In May 2018 the prize was jointly awarded to senior Yale College composers Max Vinetz and Miles Walter for their excellent pieces; and, in May 2017 it was awarded to Emma Hathaway, our outstanding graduating Yale College music historian.

He programmed music by two senior Vietnamese composers, Nguyen Thien Dao and Ton That Tiet, who immigrated to Paris in the '50s.