"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).

This simple melodic and harmonic progression had served as an inspiration for many baroque composers, and would be used by later romantic and post-romantic composers.

Their letters suggest that both Mozart and his father, being Austrians who resented the special place that Italian composers had in the courts of the Austrian princes, blamed the Italians in general and Salieri in particular for all of Mozart's difficulties in establishing himself in Vienna.

However, even with Mozart and Salieri being rivals for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so when Mozart had become established in Vienna.

This became the dominant form in the Restoration, when composers such as Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) and John Blow ( 1649 – 1708 ) wrote elaborate examples for the Chapel Royal with orchestral accompaniment.

Major composers have usually composed anthems in response to commissions and for special occasions.

Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, provided texts for a significant number of British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

The defeat of Bayezid became a popular subject for later western writers, composers and painters.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

* BMI, acronym for Broadcast Music, Inc., a collecting society for composers ' copyrights

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

The importance of London in the Classical period is often overlooked, but it served as the home to the Broadwood's factory for piano manufacturing and as the base for composers who, while less notable than the " Vienna School ", had a decisive influence on what came later.

During the 1790s, there emerged of a new generation of composers, born around 1770, who, while they had grown up with the earlier styles, found in the recent works of Haydn and Mozart a vehicle for greater expression.

For instance, in the music industry, the top-selling pop singers have a strong potential to become celebrities, but the behind-the-scenes professionals tend to remain little known to the general public ( e. g. dancers, disc jockeys, record producers, and composers ); though in recent years, Club DJs such as David Guetta, Skrillex and Deadmau5 or composer David Foster have achieved worldwide fame for their respective work in the music industry.

* List of composers for the classical guitar

He has used this program to great effect with composers such as Bach and Mozart ( his program Experiments in Musical Intelligence is famous for creating " Mozart's 42nd Symphony "), and also within his own pieces, combining his own creations with that of the computer.

Trumpets were slower to adopt the new valve technology, so for the next 100 years or more, composers often wrote separate parts for trumpet and cornet.

In addition BMI's online database of the performance rights organization ( of which the Residents and their publishing company, Pale Pachyderm Publishing ( Warner-Chappell ), have been members for their entire careers ), lists Flynn and Fox as the composers of all original Residents songs.

Unlike some other famous actor-managers, Tree engaged the best actors available to join his company and hired the best designers and composers for the plays with incidental music.

The best prospect for aspirant opera composers was the Théâtre Lyrique company which, despite repeated financial crises, operated intermittently in various premises under its resourceful manager Léon Carvalho.

This led to cross-cultural collaborations, as Giddins writes ; but particularly to the often ruthless exploitation and outright theft of African-American artistic genius, as well — by other, white performers and composers ; agents ; promoters ; publishers ; and record company executives.

The company also sponsored LSO commissions of new works by British composers.

He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios and does films like The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2, and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and works with other composers through the company which he founded, Remote Control Productions.

Zimmer works with other composers through his company Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures.

In 1998, following up on what he had said in his original interview with the company, Mitsuda left Square to work as a freelance composer, the first of several of Square's composers to do so.

The company consisted of only Mitsuda as composer along with a few sound producers for several years, but has expanded since to include nine employees, including other composers.

MCDC has commissioned more work from contemporary composers than any other dance company.

Traditional Romantic opera remained popular ; indeed, the dominant opera publisher in the early 20th century was Casa Ricordi, which focused almost exclusively on popular operas until the 1930s, when the company allowed more unusual composers with less mainstream appeal.

Besides composers, conductors, organists, and pianists, only enough students are admitted to fill a single orchestra and an opera company.

Abel Seyler, the Swiss-born director of the Seyler theatrical company, was noted as a proponent of German opera, commissioning operas by Hiller, Georg Anton Benda, Anton Schweitzer and other composers.

She was awarded the title Musician of the Year 2008 ( announced by Musical America, the US publishing company for performing arts ), for being " among the few contemporary composers to achieve public acclaim as well as universal critical respect ".

Basiscape has expanded since its founding to 10 composers, and is currently the largest independent video game music production company.

The company expanded in 2005 with the addition of composers Mitsuhiro Kaneda and Kimihiro Abe.

The company steadily expanded its repertoire and continued its tradition of collaboration, working with notable performers, artists, and composers such as Bob Telson, John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros, and David Byrne.

The company is renowned for its innovative designers, composers and choreographers which include Lez Brotherston, Johanna Bryant, Chris Monks, Alan Price, Jeremy Sams, Rae Smith and Mark Thomas.

In 1991, after Fujioka had been hired as a director for Square, Sasai was invited to join the company as they needed composers to assist Nobuo Uematsu and Kenji Ito.

In 1996, he joined the anime and video game music production company Imagine, where he worked alongside famed composers Hayato Matsuo, Kohei Tanaka, and Kow Otani.

After working with Konami, Hibino started his own company, GEM Impact, which is a studio consisting of composers Takahiro Izutani, Yoshitaka Suzuki, Takahide Ayuzawa, and Norihiko Hibino himself.

And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.

" Liturgies and masses composed by famous composers such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and Mykola Leontovych are fine examples of this,

The best known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven ; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Antonio Soler, Antonio Salieri, François Joseph Gossec, Johann Stamitz, Carl Friedrich Abel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.

Pablo Picasso's style and name are known even to people who are not interested in art ; likewise many know that Harry Houdini was an illusionist, Bill Gates, an entrepreneur, Albert Einstein a scientist ; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers ; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer.

Other prominent Latin American composers are Leo Brouwer of Cuba, Antonio Lauro of Venezuela and Enrique Solares of Guatemala.

There are significant works by composers such as Hans Werner Henze of Germany, Gilbert Biberian of England and Roland Chadwick of Australia.

Members of TaikOz have composed new pieces which are based upon study and performance of drum and flute music from Japan, and the interpretation of music of contemporary Japanese composers such as Maki Ishii and Eitetsu Hayashi.

In the Romantic era and the 20th century, composers such as Wagner, Mahler, Beethoven, Busoni, and Prokofiev also requested notes below the low E. There are two common methods for making these notes available to the player.

Verdi's innovations are so distinctive that other composers do not use them ; they remain, to this day, some of Verdi's signatures.

However, these days composers are generally not as accurately described by the term " Impressionism " as painters in the genre were.

Some composers who have been labeled impressionists are Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, André Caplet, Frederick Delius, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Erik Satie, Albert Roussel, Alexander Scriabin, Lili Boulanger, Federico Mompou, Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Karol Szymanowski.

Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel are generally considered the greatest Impressionist composers, but Debussy disavowed the term, calling it the invention of critics.

Two notable Western composers for the kora are Brother Dominique Catta and Jacques Burtin ( France ), who wrote most of these scores, though composers like Carole Ouellet ( Canada ), Brother Grégoire Philippe ( Monastère de Keur Moussa ) and Sister Claire Marie Ledoux ( France ) contributed with original works.

Lute performances are now not uncommon ; there are many professional lutenists, especially in Europe where the most employment is to be found, and new compositions for the instrument are being produced by composers.

The relationship between the two forms is most obvious in the composers who concentrated on sacred music, especially Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose " motets " setting texts from the Canticum Canticorum, the biblical " Song of Solomon ," are among the most lush and madrigal-like of Palestrina's compositions, while his " madrigals " that set poems of Petrarch in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary would not be out of place in church.

Similar compositions in the English language are called anthems, but some later English composers, such as Charles Villiers Stanford, wrote motets in Latin.

Past awardees are composers such as Stephen Sondheim and performers such as Carol Channing.

Though representing a general return to certain notions of music-making that are often considered to be classical or romantic, not all postmodern composers have eschewed the experimentalist or academic tenets of modernism.

Many of the composers had a direct connection to the Vatican and the papal chapel, though they worked at several churches ; stylistically they are often contrasted with the Venetian School of composers, a concurrent movement which was much more progressive.

Joseph Lamb and James Scott are, together with Joplin, acknowledged as the three most sophisticated ragtime composers.