He began composing it in the summer of 1810, and completed it in March 1811.

In the late 1750s he began composing symphonies, and by 1761 he had composed a triptych ( Morning, Noon, and Evening ) solidly in the " contemporary " mode.

When Haydn and Mozart began composing, symphonies were played as single movements — before, between, or as interludes within other works — and many of them lasted only ten or twelve minutes ; instrumental groups had varying standards of playing, and the continuo was a central part of music-making.

In 2002, Love began composing an album with Linda Perry ; the record, America's Sweetheart, was released on Virgin Records in February 2004, was embraced by critics with mixed reviews.

During the interim, Mark Mothersbaugh began composing music for the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and released an elaborately packaged solo cassette, Musik for Insomniaks, which was later expanded and released as two CDs in 1988.

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.

He also began composing De Vita Sua, his autobiographical poem.

While his younger brother began composing and " plugging " in Tin Pan Alley from the age of eighteen, Ira worked as a cashier in his father's Turkish baths.

The group began composing and performing their own songs during this time including a Brown composition called " Goin ' Back to Rome " and a ballad Brown co-wrote with Terry titled " Please, Please, Please ".

Adams began composing at the age of ten and first heard his music performed around the age of 13 or 14.

Victor Hugo published an unrhymed French version by Ernest Fouinet of this poem in the notes to Les Orientales ( 1829 ) and subsequent French poets began to make their own attempts at composing original " pantoums ".

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), which he starred in and composed the score for ; the song " Forbidden Colours " which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score.

Largely a self-taught musician, he reportedly began composing at the age of four.

At the time he began composing, European music was dominated by the style galant, a reaction against the highly evolved intricacy of the Baroque.

Having completed the scenario, Wagner began writing the libretto in 1862, and followed this by composing the overture.

He soon began to have doubts and ceased composing.

Sullivan began his composing career with a series of ambitious works, interspersed with hymns, parlour ballads and other light pieces.

His early recollections were musical ; he was taught to play the piano and violin, and began composing when he was about twelve.

He also attended and wrote a report on the inauguration of a statue to Beethoven in Bonn, and began composing La damnation de Faust, incorporating the earlier Huit scènes de Faust.

At an early age Loewe learned to play piano by ear and helped his father rehearse, and he began composing songs at age seven.

A second generation of Bluegrass musicians began performing, composing and recording in the mid-to late-1960s, although many had played in first generation bands from a young age.

Despite the distinctions noted, many troubadours were also known as jongleurs, either before they began composing or alongside.

Musicians of note in this genre include Collegium Vocale Köln ( who first began using this technique in 1968 ), Michael Vetter, David Hykes, Jim Cole, Ry Cooder, Paul Pena ( mixing the traditional Tuvan style with that of American Blues ), Steve Sklar and Kiva ( specializing in jazz / world beat genres and composing for overtone choirs ).

After a stint teaching at Darmstadt from 1956 to 1961, Tudor began to wind up his activities as a pianist to concentrate on composing.

Bizet then began composing Don Rodrigue, an adaptation of the El Cid story by Louis Gallet and Édouard Blau.

In the small gallery used as the guests' dining room, Meredith sat down at his place and, as always, began teasing the young waitress.

When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

They borrowed a typewriter, raised about $2,000 in contributions, hired a secretary, persuaded a couple of young men to join them for almost no pay and began mailing out a collection of unstapled leaflets that they called Guideposts.

He partnered with Stephen T. Logan from 1841 until 1844, when he began his practice with William Herndon, whom Lincoln thought " a studious young man ".

At age six, young Bronson began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the center of town but learned how to read at home with the help of his mother.

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

In the mid-1980s, Grant began touring and recording with young up-and-coming songwriter Michael W. Smith.

Federko began playing hockey at a young age in his home town of Foam Lake, Saskatchewan.

To the horror of the assembled Party officials, however, someone with, " a young and deeply anguished voice ," began reciting Pasternak's banned poem Hamlet.

With the Official IRA and Official Sinn Féin having moved away from mainstream Irish republicanism towards Marxism, the Provisional IRA began to win the support of newly radicalised, disaffected young people.

After the 1950s, the city's population began to decline slowly, as families tended to be replaced by single people and young couples.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

Frustrated by the Qing court's resistance to reform and by China's weakness, young officials, military officers, and students began to advocate the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the creation of a republic.

Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.

As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using muskets and other firearms traded with French and Spanish slave traders for young men captured in battle, who fetched a very high price from the European slave merchants.

He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated.

Kay Plato began taking Dana to auditions when she was very young.

When the demand began to increase rapidly, the English merchants began to kidnap young children and deport them to distant parts of the world, very much against their will.

John Armstrong, who was also a native of New York, began working at the Oxford University Press at a young age and eventually reached the position of Vice President of the American branch.

He began his career playing the role of the unsophisticated love-stricken young man.

Service in the Army was also attractive to young men from Highlands, who sent pay home and retired there with their army pensions, but the prosperity ended after 1815, and long-run negative factors began to undermine the economic position of the crofters.