Sentence examples for training in composition from inspiring English sources

He had no formal training in composition.

He received no proper training in composition.

Though Mr. Turnage, 41, had extensive training in composition, his exploration of jazz was informal and somewhat backward, he said.

Casals made his debut in Barcelona in 1891 after early training in composition, cello, and piano.

The university's College-Conservatory of Music offers training in composition, performance, theory, dance, theatre design and production, and musical history and education.

Anyone who has been through rigorous training in composition will have been encouraged – not to say directed – to write music away from the piano in order to realise pure sound on paper, free from the meandering route that improvising fingers travel.

We know that she was trained in composition, because we have records of her composition exercises.

Like Balakirev, they were not professionally trained in composition but possessed varying degrees of musical proficiency.

Also, unlike Tchaikovsky, none of The Five was academically trained in composition; in fact, their leader, Balakirev, considered academicism a threat to musical imagination.

Harper was formally trained in composition, and after a stint in New York City doing experimental sound-based performances with Soundwalk Collective, he packed his bags and flew to Tokyo, where he spent three years living and working in a Buddhist monastery.

Masur had a thorough and conservative training in piano, composition and conducting at the music college in Leipzig, close to his native town of Brieg in Silesia, then part of Germany, now Brzeg, in Poland.