And thus torn between his desire to be known as the composer of a successful opera and the necessity of remaining true to his proclaimed desire for anonymity, Rousseau suffered through several painful weeks.

Diabelli produced a number of works as a composer, including an operetta called Adam in der Klemme, several masses and songs and numerous piano and classical guitar pieces.

In 1819, as a promotional idea, he decided to try to publish a volume of variations on a " patriotic " waltz he had penned expressly for this purpose, with one variation by every important Austrian composer living at the time, as well as several significant non-Austrians.

He began building a reputation as England's most promising young composer, composing a symphony, a concerto, and several overtures, among them the Overture di Ballo, in 1870.

Denouncing Telemann as an " opera musician ", Kuhnau petitioned the city council several times against the younger composer.

The French composer Maurice Duruflé is sometimes said to be " the Ravel of the organ " and is clearly inspired by both Ravel and Debussy in several of his compositions, most notably perhaps the Sicilliene of the Suite pour orgue, op.

He composed several instrumental sonatas with piano, including three for violin, two for cello, and two for clarinet ( which were subsequently arranged for viola by the composer ).

Feininger also had intermittent activity as a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant.

The composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote regularly for the musical saw, including several obbligato parts in his comic opera Ubu Rex, and Canadian composer Robert Minden has written extensively for the musical saw.

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer with a signature simplicity of style, with compositions often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times.

The subject of the projected work was a matter of discussion between composer, librettists and the Opéra-Comique management ; Adolphe de Leuven, on behalf of the theatre, made several suggestions that were politely rejected.

Picasso took the opportunity to make several sketches of the composer.

Wesendonck became a supporter of Wagner and bankrolled the composer for several years.

Donizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835, a time when several factors led to the height of his reputation as a composer of opera.

After Guaraldi's death, the music for the Peanuts series was composed first by San Francisco film and television composer Ed Bogas, who scored several Peanuts TV specials and motion pictures up to the early 1990s, along with Bogas ' future wife Desirée Goyette, and occasionally, Judy Munsen.

Coogan's Bluff also became the first collaboration with Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin, who would later compose the jazzy score to several Eastwood films in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Dirty Harry films.

Among the graduates from this campus are two former U. S. Vice Presidents, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, former NAACP president Roy Wilkins, several Nobel prize winners, several athletes such as Ric Flair, Kevin McHale, Dave Winfield, Patty Berg, Brock Lesnar, Curt Hennig, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Jackson of the NBA, and composer Yanni.

Its impact on Berlioz was, again, profound and immediate, with the Faustian concept of man striking several chords with the composer.

Greenaway's most familiar musical collaborator during this period is composer Michael Nyman, who has scored several films.

Though writing for transposing instruments entails more work for a composer or arranger, there are several reasons to transpose music for certain instruments.

During his time there, Berlin was a rich artistic environment, where Bach mixed with many accomplished musicians, including several notable former students of his father, and important literary figures, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, with whom the composer would become close friends.

Both Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler recognized Schoenberg's significance as a composer ; Strauss when he encountered Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and Mahler after hearing several of Schoenberg's early works.

They were popular throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, for example with the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

* 1927 – Robert Allen, pianist and composer of popular songs ( d. 2000 )

Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.

Recognizing the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world's culture, the prize will be given annually to a composer or performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwins.

Jerome David Kern ( January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945 ) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Peggy Lee ( May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002 ) was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades.

In the realm of classical music, semi-spoken music was popular stylized by composer Arnold Schoenberg as Sprechstimme, and famously used in Ernst Toch's 1924 Geographical Fugue for spoken chorus and the final scene in Darius Milhaud's 1915 ballet Les Choéphores.

" Usage of this form was popularized in modern popular culture by 19th century composer Richard Wagner by way of the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung.

Some of Byrd's most popular motets were actually written as a type of correspondence to a friend and fellow composer, Philippe de Monte.

Other authors with notable heritage in Stockholm were the Nobel Prize laureate Eyvind Johnson ( 1900 – 1976 ) and the popular poet and composer Evert Taube ( 1890 – 1976 ).

Key gave the poem to his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph H. Nicholson, who saw that the words fit the popular melody " The Anacreontic Song ", by English composer John Stafford Smith.

Michael Balfe was the most popular British grand opera composer of the period, while the most popular musical theatre was a series of fourteen comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan, although there was also musical burlesque and the beginning of Edwardian musical comedy in the 1890s.

* July 11 – American popular composer George Gershwin dies in Los Angeles of a brain tumor, age 38.

Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych also explored new ways of harmonizing and arranging Ukrainian folk songs, producing masterpieces such as Dudaryk and Shchedryk, the latter of which featured a four-note ostinato theme and became a popular Christmas carol known as Carol of the Bells after it was translated by Peter J. Wilhousky.

Homage has been paid to Weber by 20th century composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Mahler ( who completed Weber's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos and made revisions of Euryanthe and Oberon ) and Hindemith ( composer of the popular Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ).

In 1803, Weber's opera, Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn ( Peter Schmoll and his Neighbors ) was produced in Augsburg, and gave Weber his first success as a popular composer.

In addition to acting, Moore continued to work as a composer and pianist, writing scores for a number of films and giving piano concerts, which were highlighted by his popular parodies of classical favourites.

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

However, during the war years, Ravel did manage some compositions, including one of his most popular works, Le tombeau de Couperin, a commemoration of the musical ideals of François Couperin, the early 18th-century composer, which premiered in 1919.

Although The Planets remains Holst's most popular work, the composer himself did not count it among his best creations and later in life complained that its popularity had completely surpassed his other works.

* Chester Conn ( born 1896 ), American composer of popular music

Richard Leveridge ( or Leueridge ) ( 19 July 1670 – 22 March 1758 ) was an English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs.