Sentence examples for was primarily a composer of from inspiring English sources

Born in 1585, exactly 100 years before Bach, Schutz was primarily a composer of sacred music.

Boccherini was primarily a composer of chamber music, although his symphonies and concerti have considerable merit.

Alessandro was primarily a composer of opera and church music, and in the early part of his career Domenico seemed to be heading in the same direction, first in Naples, then in Venice and finally in Rome, where in 1713 he became assistant and later maestro at the Cappella Giulia at St Peter's.

While Mr. Tone contributed vocally to that performance, he is primarily a composer, not a singer.

Bernstein was always in two minds as to whether he was primarily a conductor or a composer.

Mussorgsky was primarily an opera composer; his output for piano and for orchestra is small.

But this concert was primarily a showcase for Mr. Valdés as composer and big-band arranger, and featured the United States premiere of his "Suite Cubana," which he recorded for his Grammy Award-winning 2005 album, "Bebo de Cuba" (Calle 54).

But Harry Partch, the eclectic, visionary and self-taught California-born composer who died at 73 in 1974, was primarily an inventor, in the most creative sense of the term.

For most of his career Heinz Holliger was primarily an oboe player, the greatest in the world; his work as a composer very much came second.

Was Weill primarily a composer of serious concert music?

It is primarily a system of ambiguity.