He routinely included in his concerts a short segment he called "Rent-a-Composer," in which he composed and performed songs based on the audience's usually outlandish suggestions.
In 1862 Verdi represented Italian musicians at the London Exhibition, for which he composed a cantata to words by the up-and-coming poet and composer Arrigo Boito.
Strauss's most famous work is The Blue Danube, which he composed in 1866.
(She was reported to have given Hitler the writing paper on which he composed "Mein Kampf").
64, which he composed on the journey out – by turns evincing melancholy, hope, anguish, despair and a guttering affirmation.
To hear what I'm talking about, listen to Violin Concerto: Concentric Paths, which he composed in 2005.
Dante's modernity lies in the "sweet new style" of Italian (dolce stil novo) in which he composed.
His favourite literary form was verse, in which he composed treatises, sermons, and hymns; the result, in early Syriac, is often tedious because of expansive metaphor and allegory.
That number, which he composed and recorded with the drummer Ray Bauduc in 1938, opens with drums, has stop-time sections, slapped bass and a rare musical virtuosity.
There is a small museum (www.museochopin.com) which features the piano Chopin left there and on which he composed a number of pieces.
Publishers Weekly has an early review of Vladimir Nabokov's final, unfinished novel, "The Original of Laura," which he composed on index cards.
