Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

As a composer, Schmidt was slow to develop, but his reputation, at least in Austria, saw a steady growth from the late 1890s until his death in 1939.

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.

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.

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

He began building a reputation as England's most promising young composer.

In 1790, Clementi made the decision to give up his performing career, possibly in order to bolster his reputation as a composer.

His reputation as an editor and interpreter of Beethoven's music is at least as great as his reputation as a composer, though he's been criticized for some editorial work, such as making harmonic " corrections " to some of Beethoven's scores.

During the 16th century, Josquin gradually acquired the reputation as the greatest composer of the age, his mastery of technique and expression universally imitated and admired.

The film score established composer Michel Legrand's reputation in Hollywood, where he later scored other films, winning three Oscars.

His reputation as a composer continued to grow and in 1959, he was nominated as an Officier of the Légion d ' honneur.

The editors of the Cambridge Music Handbooks opined that " The Rhapsody in Blue ( 1924 ) established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works.

The fact that Durante never composed for the stage brought him an exaggerated reputation as a composer of sacred music.

In 1937 he returned to New York, and over the next decade established a solid reputation as a composer, collaborating with Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams and others on music for stage productions as well as orchestral pieces.

Paul Bowles ' reputation as a composer was ultimately overshadowed by his writing.

He incorporated more elements of the contrapuntal style learned from his father than any of his three composer brothers, but his use of the style has an individualistic and improvisatory edge which endeared his work to musicians of the late 19th century, when there was something of a revival of his reputation.

Younger composers such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich eventually considered his music old-fashioned while also admitting he remained a composer with an imposing reputation and a stabilizing influence in a time of transition and turmoil.

Gurney is known both as a poet and composer and his reputation in both arts has continued to rise.

Other works followed, his reputation being firmly established by the music to the play of The Padlock, produced at Drury Lane under Garrick's management in 1768, the composer himself taking the part of Mungo with conspicuous success.

Ockeghem was not a prolific composer, given the length of his career and extent of his reputation, and some of his work was lost.

The beauty of its sound and the mechanical facilities provided by the instrument assisted his reputation as improviser and composer, not only for organ music but in other genres as well.

Unusually for a composer of such importance and reputation, Franck's fame rests largely on a small number of compositions written in his later years, particularly his Symphony in D minor ( 1886 – 88 ), the Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra ( 1885 ), the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue for piano solo ( 1884 ), the Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major ( 1886 ), the Piano Quintet in F minor ( 1879 ), and the symphonic poem Le Chasseur maudit ( 1883 ).

He attempted to restore the reputation of a negelected Elizabethan composer, Thomas Whythorne, with a long pamphlet which, years later, brought significant amendments to Whythorne's entry in The History of Music in England.

He has a reputation as a composer of a short but distinguished catalogue of works.

Their funding is generally provided by a sponsor, and as their strength comes from their elected representatives, they are typical parties of parliamentarian creation, which depend on the reputation and support of their benefactors.

Much but not all of Peter's reputation comes from the works of the chronicler Pero López de Ayala, who after his father's change of allegiance had little choice but to serve Peter's usurper.

Cecily devoted herself to religious duties and her reputation for piety comes from this period.

The desperate straits of the United Company, and the success of The Relapse in saving it from collapse, are attested in a private letter from 19 November 1696: " The other house Lane has no company at all, and unless a new play comes out on Saturday revives their reputation, they must break.

Rhett seemingly ruins Scarlett's reputation after this very public display of frivolity and Scarlett's father, Gerald O ' Hara, comes to speak to Rhett and to take Scarlett back to Tara.

For example, he once confused, " Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos " (" Raise crows and they'll pluck your eyes out ," meaning " what goes around comes around ") and " Crea fama y échate a dormir ," (" Make a name for yourself and then go to sleep ," meaning, once you have made a reputation for yourself, things will take care of themselves ).

His controversial reputation comes from accounts that he executed several corrupt members of the Shinsengumi ; however, rumors vary as to his role in the deaths of Takeda Kanryūsai and Tani Sanjūrō.

John, who holds a great reputation, comes home from France and gives his wife a present from Paris while he was on talk shows and other things about his gift.

Much of Crichton's posthumous reputation comes from a romantic 1652 account of his life written by Sir Thomas Urquhart ( 1611 – 1660 ), contained within a unclassifiable work ( The Jewel ) that is characterized by exaggeration and hyperbole.

Jim Breuer talked about Cook's reputation within the comedy industry, saying: " Everyone kills this guy ... Not one comedian comes on Sirius radio show and says ' I'm so happy for him ', which is weird.

He says his reputation for sophistry comes from his enemies, all of whom are envious of him, and malicious.

His off-spin has been rarely called upon by his captain but when he comes on he has earned a reputation as a partnership breaker.

Part of this description comes from a reputation he owes to the acts and status of his father, the Duke of New Madrid, who is estranged from the empress.

Though Falstaff is more likely modeled on his father William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham ( also descended from John Oldcastle ) who was married to Francis Newton, whose family name was originally Caradock ; referenced in 2 Henry IV when Falstaff sings " The Boy and the Mantle ," a ballad in which Sir Caradoc's wife comes away with her fidelity and reputation intact ( McKeen 1981 ).

Status in Gowachin society comes from one's relative rank in the phylum and from the phylum's overall reputation.

By reputation, the name Poocham comes from an Abenaki Indian word meaning " gathering place ".

As more and more of her friends turn against her, Elphaba gradually comes to accept her reputation as a villain, and the supposed death of Fiyero is what finally causes her to embrace it completely.

Mann has gained a reputation as a director on the cutting-edge when it comes to the music for his films.

**** Reason: After Pacey talked about his relationship with Tamara in the bathroom at school, a student overhears in a stall and their relationship comes out to the whole town, but Pacey lies and says he made the whole thing up, but she chooses to leave town to deal with her issues and because her reputation as a teacher has been sullied.

During his tenure in Cincinnati, and later in Pittsburgh and Detroit, Sean Casey was regarded as approachable and friendly, and his nickname, " the Mayor ," comes from his reputation for chatting casually with every runner who makes it to first base, and from his very public charity work.

* Pamela Robertson, Bruce's beautiful girlfriend from a rival school who comes to SVH to escape her reputation as a slut.

His reputation as a pianist is so renowned that Jelly Roll Morton, of New Orleans jazz fame, on hearing of 1900s skill comes aboard to challenge him to a piano duel.

Anthony Quinton began his review column in the Times Literary Supplement of 21 December 1956, writing, " Miss Agatha Christie's new Poirot story comes first in this review because of this author's reputation and not on its own merits, which are disappointingly slight.

Equipped with the reputation that comes from a famous name, the connections and dynastic links with many of the ruling families of Italy, and with their own private fief as a base, both Niccolò, and his father Aldobrandino made careers as mercenaries taking Condotte ( mercenary contracts ) with Florence, Siena, the Pope, and the Kingdom of Naples at various times.