He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.

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.

Rameau's Six Concerts En Sextuor, recorded by L'orchestre De Chambre Pierre Menet ( BAM LD 046 ), turn out to be harpsichord pieces arranged for strings apparently by the composer himself.

Like Mr. Loesser, Jerry Herman is both composer and lyriist for Milk And Honey ( R. C. A. Victor LOC 1065 ; ;

Everybody returned after intermission for the miscellaneous sweepings of the Fantasy For Piano, Chorus, And Orchestra In C Minor, made up by its composer to fill out one of his programs.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

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

* 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.

It was toward the end of this extended period of study that Gassmann was called away on a new opera commission and a gap in the theater's program allowed for Salieri to make his debut as a composer of a completely original opera buffa.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.

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.

His remaining secular works in this late period fall into three categories: first, large scale cantatas and one oratorio Habsburg written on patriotic themes or in response to the international political situation, pedagogical works written to aid his students in voice, and finally simple songs, rounds or canons written for home entertainment ; many with original poetry by the composer.

While Italian by birth, Salieri had lived in imperial Vienna for almost 60 years and was regarded by such people as the music critic Friedrich Rochlitz as a German composer.

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.

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

The composer was living in a cottage in the South Parish of South Ronaldsay, and only a couple of fields away from a now prominent archaeological site known as the Tomb of the Eagles.

* Nathan McCree, music producer and composer of the original Tomb Raider game music

Nevertheless, this remains the earliest recording made by a major composer.

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.

The name of the community was inspired by a fan of the opera composer Richard Wagner, and the celebrated status of this hamlet comes primarily from its location as the burial places of the remains of numerous well-known people.

Today, Grofé remains most famous for his Grand Canyon Suite ( 1931 ), a work regarded highly enough to be recorded for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini ( in Carnegie Hall in 1945, with the composer present ).

He was well acknowledged as a talented pianist in his lifetime, and was also a known composer who remains admired though little performed.

Boyce was largely forgotten after his death and he remains a little-performed composer today, although a number of his pieces were rediscovered in the 1930s and Constant Lambert edited and sometimes conducted his works.

It remains to be seen, however, if these recordings, which have mostly been well received by reviewers, will earn Tovey a permanent place in the canon of 20th century British music, or whether he will remain a niche composer.

Although he used to share music duties with " Nazo2 " Suzuki, he remains Treasure's only full-time composer, contributing music to more than 20 of Treasure's games.

Hans Werner Henze largely dissociated himself from the Darmstadt school in favour of a more lyrical approach, and remains perhaps Germany's most lauded living composer.

He remains Russia's best-known composer outside Russia.

Despite the success of the first two games, Shadow of the Beast III was not ported to any other system, and remains an Amiga exclusive, although a Sega Mega Drive version was considered and even developed at some point, with Matt Furniss tasked as the Mega Drive conversion composer.

Dunstaple was probably the most influential English composer of all time, yet he remains an enigma: his complete works were not published until the quincentenary of his death in 1953, but even since then works have been added and subtracted from his oeuvre ; we know very little of his life and nothing of his undoubted learning ; we can only make an educated guess at most of the chronology of the small amount of music that has come down to us ; and we understand little of his style – why he wrote as he did, what artistic or technical principles guided his composing, how his music was performed, or why it was so influential.

The piece was a sensation when it was first performed in June 1930 as the third movement of his suite Gesprochene Musik ( Spoken Music ), and remains Toch's most-performed work, although the composer himself dismissed it as an unimportant diversion.

He remains active as a performer, composer, and clinician.

Luigi Nono (; January 29, 1924 – May 8, 1990 ) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.

* Béla Bartók * ( 1881 – 1945 ), composer, pianist, scholar ; his remains were moved to Farkasreti Cemetery in Budapest, Hungary in 1988

In 1892, he took part in a revival of Puccini's flawed early opera Edgar that was staged in Madrid under the supervision of the composer ; but even Tamagno's involvement in the enterprise was not enough to reinvigorate Edgar and it remains rarely heard.

Christianson remained in the position for 49 years until composer René Clausen took over in 1986, who remains there today.

He called Elmo Hope ( in a concert with Archie Shepp ): " A great and fine composer and remains one of America's well kept secrets ".

To this day it remains the only Polish opera by a Polish composer ever performed there.

Pugni remains the most prolific composer of the genre, having composed more than 100 original ballets, as well as composing numerous divertissements and incidental dances that were often performed as diversions during the intermissions of opera performances at the theatre.

Her poem Sea Wrack was also set to music for voice and piano by the composer Hamilton Harty and this remains a popular work today.

Although Animuccia ’ s contribution to liturgical musical at this time was soon eclipsed by choral works of his contemporaries Palestrina and Victoria, his music remains an important example as to one of the ways in which a composer sought to deal with the issues which arose after the Council of Trent.

Ibarra remains active as a composer, performer, educator and documentary filmmaker in the U. S., Philippines and internationally.