Composers who wrote solo harpsichord music were numerous during the whole Baroque era in European countries including Italy, Germany, England and France.

Composers, including Satie ( who was a pianist at Le Chat Noir ), also lived in the area.

Composers who developed the symphonic poem after Liszt were mainly Bohemian, Russian, and French ; the Bohemians and Russians showed the potential of the form as a vehicle for the nationalist ideas fomenting in their respective countries at this time.

Composers who write vocal music must have an understanding of the skills, talents, and vocal properties of singers.

Composers who have written a Serenade for string orchestra include Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Suk and Elgar.

Composers who were particularly influenced by Aram Khachaturian include Alexander Arutiunian, Arno Babajanian, Tigran Mansurian, Edgar Hovhannisyan, Edward Manukyan, Loris Tjeknavorian.

Composers who reference the Council ’ s reforms in prefaces to their compositions do not adequately claim a musical basis from the Council but a spiritual and religious basis of their art.

Composers have long hired ghostwriters to help them to write musical pieces and songs ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an example of a well-known composer who was paid to ghostwrite music for wealthy patrons.

Composers during this period included Bernardo de Peralta Escudero ( mostly active around 1640 ), and also Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, who was the most famous composer of the 17th century in Mexico.

Composers who do not have programming experience to create the technology end of a piece for ensemble and electronics are provided with an assistant who helps them to realize technically intensive parts of the piece.

* 2 ) Composers and performers of non-Ukrainian ethnicity who were born or at some time were citizens or were active in Ukraine.

Composers who have written settings of the Stabat Mater include Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antonio Vivaldi, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; of the latter's setting, the German poet Tieck opined: " I had to turn away to hide my tears, especially at the place, ' Vidit suum dulcem natum '".

Composers who made a name for themselves with their software include Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Koji Kondo ( Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda ), Koichi Sugiyama ( Dragon Quest ), Miki Higashino ( Gradius, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ), Hiroshi Miyauchi ( Space Harrier, Hang-On, Out Run ), Rob Hubbard ( Monty On the Run, International Karate ), Hirokazu Tanaka ( Metroid, Kid Icarus, EarthBound ), Martin Galway ( Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Stryker's Run, Times of Lore ), Yuzo Koshiro ( Dragon Slayer, Ys, Shinobi, ActRaiser, Streets of Rage ), Mieko Ishikawa ( Dragon Slayer, Ys ), and Ryu Umemoto ( visual novels, shoot ' em ups ).

Composers who visited Ferrara during the period included numerous important masters such as Claudio Monteverdi, John Dowland, Orlande de Lassus, Claudio Merulo, and, most importantly, Carlo Gesualdo.

Composers who wrote a called " Missa Solemnis " have included France Ačko ( 1941 ), Hendrik Andriessen ( 1946 ), Marco Betta, František Brixi, Antonio Buonomo ( 1983 ), Alfredo Casella ( 1944 ), Paul Creston, Georg Druschetzky ( 1804 ), Bohumil Fidler ( 1901 ), Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Konstanty Gorski, Michael Haydn ( 1772 ), Václav Emanuel Horák, Sigurd Islandsmoen ( 1954 ), Friedrich Kiel, Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Josef Lammerz ( 1990 ), Boleslaw Ocias and Johann Nepomuk Schelble, Wolfgang Seifen, Johann Baptist Vanhal ( 1778 ), Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann ( 1848 ).

Composers who strayed ran certain risks.

In 1981 the American Composers ' Forum commissioned the Clarinet Concerto, which Skrowaczewski wrote for Minnesota Orchestra principal clarinetist Joe Longo, who premiered it in 1981.

At these Midwest Composers Symposia, Reynolds also first encountered Harvey Sollberger, who would become a lifelong colleague and friend.

Composers who included almglocken among their musical palette include Tōru Takemitsu, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Roy Harter, John Adams, Joseph Schwantner, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Composers such as Joseph Parry, whose work Myfanwy is still a favourite Welsh song, were followed by David Jenkins and D. Emlyn Evans, who tailored songs specifically for the Victorian music market.

Composers and lyricists who made their names writing material for the Lehakot include Naomi Shemer, Yohanan Zarai, Yoni Rechter, Nurit Hirsh, and Yair Rosenblum.

Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (; – 14 August 2007 ) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities.

The Composers ' Union did not help Prokofiev's sons, who were compulsorily evicted from their apartment.

After Lina Ivanovna Prokofieva returned from Gulag, the Composers ' Union did nothing to improve the extremely bad living conditions of her family ; it was the prominent singers Irina Arkhipova and Zurab Sotkilava who protected Prokofiev ’ s first family.

Composers such as the young Joseph Haydn would then have a fixed body of instrumentalists to work with.

Composers, arrangers, and bandleaders have used sections with more or fewer players, and additional instruments, such as valve trombone, baritone horn / euphonium ( both of which are usually used in place of or with trombones ), vibes, bass clarinet, French horn, tuba, banjo, accordion and strings ( violin, viola, cello ).

Composers Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions have commented that they show signs of undoubted genius ( see biography of Schnabel by Cesar Saerchinger ).

The music industry and fans have bestowed Lifetime Achievement honors from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award – 2002 ), NAACP ( Hall of Fame – 1994 ) and the BET Awards ( Lifetime Achievement Award – 2002 ).

Composers such as John Cage, Farmers Manual and Brian Eno have used generative systems in their works.

Composers have often used the contrabassoon to comical or sinister effect by taking advantage of its clumsiness and its sepulchral rattle, respectively.

As a result, she is also considered a significant figure in Canadian music — both CBC Radio 3 and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada have referred to Case as an " honourary Canadian ".

Composers such as Daniel Bukvich, Mark Camphouse, John Mackey, Michael Colgrass, Michael Daugherty, David Del Tredici, Karel Husa, David Maslanka, Olivier Messiaen, Alfred Reed, Joseph Schwantner, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Frank Ticheli, and Eric Whitacre have composed notable works for concert band in recent years.

His orchestral appearances have included the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the American Composers Orchestra.

As head of the Composers ' Union, Khrennikov made no attempt to have the sentence against Lina Prokofieva quashed, or even to mitigate her fate in the Gulag.

The only thing that all Downtown music might be said to have in common is that, at least at the time of its original appearance, it was too bizarre – by dint of excessive length, stasis, simplicity, extemporaneity, consonance, noisiness, pop influence, vernacular reference, or other purported infraction – to have been considered " serious " modern music by proponents of " uptown " music performed from the 1960s through the 1980s at the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Lincoln Center, under the direction of the composers Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger in concerts by The Group for Contemporary Music, and concerts directed by the French conductor and pianist, Jacques-Louis Monod with the Guild of Composers.

Composers like " Bartok ", " Berg ", " Schoenberg ", " Stravinsky " and " Webern " have ties to genres and different techniques of the past through tones and various tonal traditions.

Second, the work had already been performed before the Union of Composers on September 8, so any substantial changes would have attracted considerable attention and comment.

Her works have been performed at festivals such as Holland Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, Music Biennale Zagreb, Archipel Festival ( Swiss ), Time of Music ( Finland ), Festival Aspekte ( Austria ), A-devantgarde ( Germany ), Manca ( France ), International Review of Composers ( Serbia ) among others.

Composers such as Thomas Morley, the only contemporary composer to set Shakespeare, and whose work survives, published collections of their own, roughly in the Italian manner but yet with a unique Englishness ; interest in the compositions of the English Madrigal School have enjoyed a considerable revival in recent decades.

If we now have ‘ Festivals of Music by Female Composers ’, would it not be right to have ‘ Festivals of Music by Male Composers ’?

According to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 2006, the following are the Top 25 most-performed " holiday " songs written by ASCAP members, for the first five years of the 21st century: ( tracking plays in the U. S. only, and in order of number of plays )

Bunita Marcus has written commissions for Bang on a Can All-Stars ( Meet the Composers / Reader's Digest Consortium Commission ), the Kronos Quartet, Aki Takahashi, NYSCA & the Gageego Ensemble, Morton Feldman and Soloists, Tokyo's " Sound-Space ARK " ensemble, and others.

*“ With regard to the ‘ Festival of Music by Women Composers ’ I should like to say the following: Can a distinction really be made between music written by men and music written by women?

Composers in the style of musica reservata included Nicola Vicentino, who wrote about it in his L ' antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ( 1555 ); Philippe de Monte, the prolific composer of madrigals who mainly worked in Vienna ; and above all, Orlande de Lassus, the renowned and versatile composer working in Munich whose Prophetiae Sibyllarum, probably written in the 1560s, may represent the peak of development of the style.

Other prominent works in a similar vein include Letters from Composers ( 1968 ), which uses as its text letters written by Chopin, Puccini, and others ; Casa Guidi ( 1983 ), which sets letters written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; and A Few Words About Chekhov ( 1996 ), which adapts letters by Chekhov.

Composers like Arthur Sullivan helped to repopularize the carol, and it is this period that gave rise to such favorites as " Good King Wenceslas " and " It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ", a New England carol written by Edmund H. Sears and Richard S. Willis.

Many of his works are written for young musicians, particularly those written between 1960 and 1962, when he was composer-in-residence in the Greensboro, North Carolina public school system — specifically at Greensboro Senior High School ( now Grimsley Senior High School ) under the supervision of Herbert Hazelman — as part of the Ford Foundation Young Composers Project.

As a composer he has written over seventy works, including two symphonies, for a wide variety of media and has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the American Composers Forum and others.

Composers who have written works for the Chestnut Brass Company, or have been commissioned by the Chestnut Brass Company, include Jan Krzywicki, Pulizter Prize winning composer Richard Wernick, Lois V. Vierk, Peter Schickele, George Hitt, Eric Stokes, Theodore Antoniou, Lawrence Siegel, and Paul Basler.

" Irresistible " ( also registered as " Irresistable " with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ) was written specifically for Simpson by Swedish composers Anders Bagge and Arnthor Birgisson, in collaboration with English singer-songwriter Pamela Sheyne, who also contributed vocals for the demo.

Original source of this article is the Henri Mulet page at the Classical Composers Database ( from January 2004 ), which was written by Ioannis Dimitroulis.

Composers who have written music especially for Sigmund Groven include Øistein Sommerfeldt, Terje Rypdal, James Moody, Johan Kvandal, Oddvar S. Kvam, Ketil Bjørnstad, Kristian Lindeman, Henning Sommerro, Iver Kleive, Egil Kapstad, Kenneth Sivertsen, Johan Øian, John Surman, Siegfried Steinkogler, Lars Tilling, and Fried Walter.