He has turned into such conservative composer that he has been compared with Mozart and Brahms.
The New York-born Mr. Pasatieri, who turns 65 next month, is an unabashedly conservative composer.
Mr. Muti had Respighi, a proudly conservative composer with no patience for atonality, almost sounding like an Italian modernist.
He was a conservative composer in that he worked within the accepted Classical tradition.
A self-described conservative composer who employs an early-20th-century tonal language with splashes of Impressionism, Mr. Read has been overlooked.
Mr. Beeson philosophically accepted being pegged as a "conservative composer," but the description never struck me as being particularly useful, especially when I studied his scores as examples of the practical advice he offered in class.
I had wondered why Adams chose to conduct "Feste Romane," not only since Respighi has always been regarded as an essentially conservative composer (Adams has always looked at least as far forward as backward), and because the piece has always been a little suspect politically.
Campion was generally a conservative composer.
Sorabji has been described as a conservative composer who developed a highly idiosyncratic style fusing diverse influences.
Instead, he championed such harmonically conservative composers as Carlisle Floyd and Gian Carlo Menotti.
