And listening to such a conversation one morning while taking a cup of chocolate in a cafe, Rousseau found himself bathed in perspiration, trembling lest his authorship become known, and at the same time dreaming of the startling effect he would make if he should proclaim himself suddenly as the composer.

and the composer himself was called the `` age of steel pianist ''.

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.

The music of John Adams is usually categorized as minimalist or post-minimalist although in interview he has categorised himself in typically witty fashion as a ' post-style ' composer.

Italian libretti were the norm, even when a German composer like Handel found himself writing for London audiences.

Fortunately he had started making a name for himself as a composer, although he frequently caused scandals with his forward-looking works.

However, Stravinsky himself described Prokofiev as the greatest Russian composer of his day, after himself.

7 premiered in Frankfurt, at which time Adorno introduced himself to Berg and both agreed the young philosopher and composer would study with Berg in Vienna.

I Rantzau was premiered November 10 at the Teatro La Pergola, in Florence, under the direction of the composer himself.

By April 1836, even the composer himself recognized that the work stood below Lucia in accomplishment.

He is widely regarded as the most important composer in jazz ; he was also a galvanizing bandleader who inspired many of his musicians to produce their best work, while himself being a significant exponent of jazz piano.

Competing with the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, Balzac visited her in St. Petersburg in 1843 and impressed himself on her heart.

Bruckner's first great success was his Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, more commonly known as the Romantic Symphony, the only epithet applied to a symphony by the composer himself.

Prokofiev, another Russian composer, wrote no less than five piano concertos which he himself performed.

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.

While Berlioz is best known as a composer, he was also a prolific writer, and supported himself for many years by writing musical criticism, utilising a bold, vigorous style, at times imperious and sarcastic.

The title is a reference to Flow My Tears, an ayre by the 16th century composer John Dowland, setting to music a poem by an anonymous author ( possibly Dowland himself ).

Four Daughters is a 1938 musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters ' romantic lives.

Within days he took it upon himself to help shape Mussorgsky's fate as a composer.

Strauss himself declared in 1947 with characteristic self-deprecation, " I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Firstly, contemporary works, including concertos and sonatas, usually specifically written for Segovia himself by composers he forged working relationships with, notably Spaniards such as Federico Moreno Torroba, Federico Mompou, and Joaquín Rodrigo, the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and the great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.

It has been claimed that the theme from the Largo was adapted into a spiritual-like song " Goin ' Home ", by composer Harry Burleigh, whom Dvořák met during his American sojourn, and lyricist William Arms Fisher, but the song was actually written by Fisher and based on Dvořák's Largo theme.

Pope Gregory I, who gave his name to the musical repertory and may himself have been a composer, is usually claimed to be the originator of the musical portion of the liturgy in its present form, though the sources giving details on his contribution date from more than a hundred years after his death.

According to one account, the Neapolitan composer Francesco Durante claimed that his fellow composers " should have been proud to have conceived and written aria.

The measure was intended to prevent the Strauss family's works from being claimed by another composer.

Rameau also claimed that the pieces would be equally satisfying as solo harpsichord works — although this statement is far from convincing, since the composer took the trouble to transcribe five of them himself — those where the lack of other instruments would show the least.

Jazz composer Keith Jarrett claimed that the song had been based on one of his own compositions, titled " Long As You Know You're Living Yours ".

The result of his investigations was the theory of granular synthesis, although Greek composer Iannis Xenakis claimed that he was actually the first inventor of this synthesis technique.

He returned to Chicago at the age of 30 and joined a circle of recording artists, including Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, who introduced him to the record producer Lester Melrose, who claimed composer credit and publishing on many of Dupree's songs.

Despite the self-described " disastrous " interview with composer Nobuo Uematsu and sound programmer Minoru Akao, in which he claimed to only want the job as a " stepping stone " in his career and admitted that he had never played many of Square's biggest games, such as the Final Fantasy series, Mitsuda was offered a position on the company's sound team in April 1992.

He always claimed that the reason for his continued absence from Russia was " ill health "; this enabled him to remain a respected composer in the Soviet Union, unlike Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff, who had left for other reasons.

The 20th century composer Sir John Tavener has claimed to be his direct descendant.

Another major composer was Elliott Carter, whom John Warthen Struble claimed would likely be remembered as " the most significant of the mid-20th century ... composers he reconceived and restructured the fundamental language of Western art music in evolving his powerful personal style ... his music has earned immense respect from colleagues of virtually every esthetic stripe, as well as three generations of performing musicians and audiences ".

Lortzing composed an oratorio in Detmold, Die Himmelfahrt Christi ( Christ's Ascension ), which premiered in Münster, and predictably earned a rebuke for the young composer from the Münster regional governor, who claimed that Lortzing would " never become famous as a composer ".

In Ireland, it is claimed that the melody was composed by George Alexander Osborne, a composer from Limerick City.

He claimed that it was the memoirs of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

He is the composer of what has been claimed to be " probably the world's most heard tune ": the Nokia ringtone, Nokia tune, also used in advertising spots, is based on Tárrega's Gran Vals.

By mid-August 1962, singer Boris Gmyrya had withdrawn from the premiere under pressure from the local Party Committee ; writing the composer, he claimed that, in view of the dubious text, he declined to perform the work.

He claimed that the book was the memoir of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to him by the composer.

However, prominent Croatian ethno-musicians such as Dunja Knebl and Lidija Bajuk disagreed, and both the song's composer Boris Novković and Severina herself have claimed that the song includes Croatian folk music influences from the Dalmatian Zagora ( Inner Dalmatia ) such as ganga and rere singing and lijerica instrumentation.

The " Maple Leaf Rag " was already known in Sedalia prior to its publication in 1899 ; composer and pianist Brun Campbell claimed to have seen the manuscript of the work in around 1898.

Earlier in her career, Neuwirth had the chance to meet with Italian composer Luigi Nono, who had similarly radical politics, and has claimed this had a strong influence on her life.

In a letter to his publisher of the waltz, Fritz Simrock, in 1892 ( long after the events have transpired ) he pointed out an error in the score which he claimed ' spoiled the entire melody and as composer, is the most aggrieved.