Sentence examples for was a difficult composer from inspiring English sources

Prokofiev was a difficult composer.

Lockhart was a difficult composer to pin down; precise and yet wistful – inclined to the melodically Gallic rather than the tonally Germanic and a fierce anti-Mozartian.

Such comments helped to foster a view that Tippett was a "difficult" composer, or even that his music was amateurish and poorly prepared.

But he never returned to the piano for this purpose, preferring to limit himself to shorter pieces in what he confessed was a difficult medium for the 20th-century composer.

The turn of the 20th century was a difficult time to be a lesser Finnish composer: Sibelius pretty much sucked the air out of the room.

Although Wagner is a famously difficult composer, he says that he does not care to simplify the cycle to make it more palatable.

Robert Blocker, dean of the Yale School of Music, approved of the exercise, noting that writing accessible music can be a difficult but valuable experience for young composers who find they must adjust their style.

And he was a masterly composer.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer.

Prokofiev was a Russian composer -- or more accurately, for much of his life, a Soviet composer.

Zappa was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often difficult to categorize.