Sentence examples for study of the composer from inspiring English sources

His book on Sweelinck remains an essential study of the composer.

As Michael Kennedy observes in his masterfully succinct study of the composer (Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma), it was an end, not a climax.

As Michael Kennedy observes in his masterfully succinct study of the composer (Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma), it was an end, not a climax.

According to Paul Hillier's study of the composer, he grew up playing an ancient grand piano that lacked a middle register, so that he made music only at extremes of high and low.

The musicologist David Brown, who has died aged 84 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was a leading authority on Russian music whose four-volume study of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was acclaimed as the definitive work on the subject.

The friend who took me to "Parsifal" last year, and who shared my trouble and transport, sent me a souvenir: "The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy," a study of the composer by Bryan Magee.

His advocates have produced countless studies of the composer's life and work.

As one of the earliest modern studies of the composer, Kennedy's book was a seminal contribution to an understanding of the complex psychology of Elgar: a provincial, Catholic outsider who masked his deep insecurities by the construction of a country squire's image, complete with tweeds and bushy moustache.

His study of the French composer Marin Marais inspired his soulful performance on the soundtrack of "Tous les Matins du Monde," Alain Corneau's 1991 film.

Salonen's study of the Hungarian composer's orchestral music is not totally comprehensive, but the Philharmonia's five programmes between now and November do cover most of the major scores, including the three piano concertos, both the ballets, The Miraculous Mandarin and The Wooden Prince, and a semi-staging of Bartók's only opera, Bluebeard's Castle.

"Pilgrimage From Scattered Points" (from 2006 and shown that year at White Columns) is a poignant study of the British composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-81) and the Scratch Orchestra (1968-73) thet helpedped found, as well as the radical notions of music and performance it lived by.