He also performed works with orchestra by less well known composers, including Johannes Maria Staud and Otto M Zykan.
On Monday night M. Hector Berlioz, the well known French composer and critic, gave a grand concert on the stage, the subjects of which were derived mediately or immediately from his own productions.
It presented two major large-ensemble pieces by members of its orchestra, neither very well known as composers, for a three-night run at the Rose Theater: "God's Trombones," by the trombonist Chris Crenshaw, and "Inferno," by the saxophonist Sherman Irby.
"And he was not merely a singer and a choir director," Mr. Heilbut added, "but well known as a composer of gospel songs".
Respighi (1879-1936) is not well known as a composer of opera, but he was nonetheless a major international figure in his time, producing such works as the orchestral tone poems "Fountains of Rome" and "Pines of Rome," the vocal scena "Il Tramonto" (a setting of words by Shelley), and the Sonata for Violin and Piano, all of which remain firmly in the repertory.
The Dutch government will hand over a well known Rwandan singer and composer, Simon Bikindi, to the tribunal dealing with Rwandan war crimes.
In 1745 Gluck, by then well known as an operatic composer, was invited to England at the instigation of Lord Middlesex, director of Italian opera at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in order to challenge Handel's solid hold on London opera goers.
Dujardin asked Tom Hunt, a composer well known within the sport for his dressage works, to put together a sequence of rousing British themes that featured The Great Escape and Land of Hope and Glory among others.
As one might expect, all the works are well known and by famous composers, but the period they span is relatively narrow.
Offenbach was well known for parodying other composers' music.
