Sentence examples for worst composer from inspiring English sources

The Schoenbergian pedagogue René Leibowitz summed up the feelings of many new-music connoisseurs when, in 1955, he published a pamphlet titled "Sibelius: The Worst Composer in the World".

In old age, he was imprisoned by his reputation: on the one hand, he was exalted as the greatest composer since Beethoven, and, on the other, he was denounced as "the worst composer in the world" (the title of a monograph by René Leibowitz).

There's enormous prejudice against Sibelius in Germany after Theodor Adorno's demolition of him: "If Sibelius is good, this invalidates the standards of musical quality that have persisted from Bach to Schoenberg," an assessment followed up by generations of critics and writers including René Leibowitz, who called Sibelius "the worst composer in the world".

René Leibowitz, a proponent of the music of Arnold Schoenberg, published a pamphlet describing Sibelius as "the worst composer in the world"; others dismissed him as irrelevant in what was perceived for a time as an irresistible movement towards atonality.

The worst part about being a composer is that we are hidden away in our studios and don't get to interact much with the cast or crew.

WORST: The buying guide focuses on composers and their works but does not help you decide which recording of, say, Mozart's Piano Concerto 20 you might want.

Conversely, Time Magazine listed it as the worst comic of 2003, although the list's composer later stated "he didn't actually mean it was the worst comic of the year".

How did this genius composer come to be synonymous with the worst aspects of 19th-century music - its conservatism, nostalgia, sentimentality and superficiality?

That's what worked for me, but it may be the worst piece of advice ever for an up-and-coming composer.

At his worst, in the bombastic "Christopher Columbus" and the mawkish "Music of Heaven" (which the composer performed in a sobbing baritone), Mr. Brown shamelessly recycled inspirational cliches.

The worst pusher-outer in head-music history was probably Robert Schumann, the 19th-Century composer driven mad by his pathological musical hallucinations.