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.

He worked in collaboration with Turkish composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun mostly around Adana ( Özgentürk 2008 ; Sipos 2000 ).

Particularly important was the Italian composer Albert de Rippe ( 1500 – 1551 ), who worked in France and composed polyphonic fantasias of considerable complexity.

Julius extended his patronage to the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whom he brought to Rome as his maestro di cappella, Giorgio Vasari, who supervised the design of the Villa Giulia, and to Michelangelo, who worked there.

He has also occasionally worked on anime and video games, as a composer as well as a scenario writer.

He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula ; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law.

Philip Glass returns as the film's composer, and Jon Kane as the Visual Designer ( having also worked on Naqoyqatsi with Reggio in 2002 ).

* Bernardo Storace, composer, worked in Messina in 1664.

In the late 1920s, the young and short () actor moved to Berlin, where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, including a role in Brecht's Mann ist Mann and as Dr. Nakamura in the musical Happy End ( music by composer Kurt Weill ), alongside Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and co-stars Carola Neher, Oskar Homolka and Kurt Gerron.

Lorentz worked on the film with composer Virgil Thomson, who shared Lorentz's enthusiasm for folk music and incorporated many folk melodies, along with other popular and religious music, into the soundtrack.

He also worked as an actor ( film and theater ), author, cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theater manager.

However, the university has also contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing ; author Anthony Burgess ; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre ; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.

After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

* Marc Shaiman ( born 1959 ), composer and arranger who has worked on the musical Hairspray and the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

Yo-Yo Ma has also worked with world-renowned Italian composer Ennio Morricone and has recorded Morricone's compositions of the Dollars Trilogy including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Conlon Nancarrow ( October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997 ) was a United States-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life.

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (, August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980 ), was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a trio setting.

In the 1930s, he worked as a theater and film composer.

" In the house on this site, which was destroyed as a result of war, lived and worked for many years the composer Paul Lincke.

While the film was in early production Eidelman worked on electronic drafts of the final score, to placate executives who were unsure about using a relatively unknown composer.

Like his father, Arne worked primarily as a composer of stage music and vocal art song, contributing little to other genres of music.

During the 1750s and 1760s, Arne worked as an organist and harpsichordist and composer to the theatres and pleasure gardens of London.

The same year Sheridan's brother-in-law Thomas Linley, a young composer who worked with him at Drury Lane Theatre, died in a boating accident.

Having impressed Rimsky-Korsakov with some of his early compositional efforts, Stravinsky worked under the guidance of the older composer.

Although his first reaction to the music was to tell Diaghilev, " I will never conduct music like that ", he worked with Stravinsky, giving practical advice to help the composer to achieve the orchestral balance and effects he sought.

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.

Antonio began his musical studies in his native town of Legnago ; he was first taught at home by his older brother Francesco Salieri ( a former student of the violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini ), and he received further lessons from the organist of the Legnago Cathedral, Giuseppe Simoni, a pupil of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini.

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.

Instead he wrote radio scripts, including Your Hit Parade, until he was introduced to Austrian composer Frederick Loewe, who needed a partner, in 1942 at the Lamb's Club.

His seventh wife, Nina Bushkin, whom he married on May 30, 1977, was the director of development at Mannes College of Music and the daughter of composer and musician Joey Bushkin.

While in the late Baroque a major composer would have the entire musical resources of a town to draw on, the forces available at a hunting lodge were smaller and more fixed in their level of ability.

Her agent Al Levy convinced her to attend a party at the home of composer Jule Styne.

* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.

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.

Of these Otello formed the climax to his reform of serious opera, and offers a suggestive contrast with the treatment of the same subject at a similar point of artistic development by the composer Giuseppe Verdi.

The absence of a similar precaution in construction of his Mosè in Egitto led to disaster in the scene depicting the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when the defects in stage contrivance always raised a laugh, so that the composer was at length compelled to introduce the chorus " Dal tuo stellato soglio " to divert attention from the dividing waves.

The least known of Puccini's mature operas, the composer continued to work at revising it until his death.

Arturo Toscanini performed as cellist in the orchestra at the world premiere and began his friendship with Verdi ( a composer he revered as highly as Beethoven ).

Some strains in Aida suggest at least a superficial familiarity with the works of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka, whom Franz Liszt, after his tour of the Russian Empire as a pianist, popularized in Western Europe.

As dramatised in the film Topsy-Turvy, the author and composer were at an impasse until 8 May 1884, when Gilbert dropped the lozenge idea and agreed to provide a libretto without any supernatural elements.

The composer himself claimed that he inherited the talent for music from his mother, whose nephew Joachim Friedrich was Kantor at Verden ( Telemann would later publish a treatise by Joachim Friedrich's son, who became an organist ).

The young composer frequently travelled to courts at Hanover and Brunswick where he could hear and study the latest musical styles.

In 2011, an operatic adaptation by composer Tarik O ' Regan and librettist Tom Phillips was premiered at the Royal Opera House in London.

The success of his comic opera, Il filosofo convinto in amore, performed at Potsdam in 1750, led to an appointment as court composer to Frederick the Great.

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.

The great Danish-German composer Dieterich Buxtehude ( born in what is present-day Sweden ) became organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck in 1668 and remained at the post until at least 1703.

Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.