Though it was Rossini's first opera, written when he was thirteen or fourteen, the work was not staged until the composer was twenty years old, premiering as his sixth official opera.

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

Though writing for transposing instruments entails more work for a composer or arranger, there are several reasons to transpose music for certain instruments.

Though not an outstanding student there and composing little, he progressed well in violin under Valdemar Tofte and received a solid grounding in music theory from Orla Rosenhoff, who would remain a valued adviser during Nielsen's early years as a professional composer.

Though best known today as a thinker, Rousseau had ambitions to be a composer.

Though he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, he was still virtually self-taught when he began writing music of his own, but in the early 1920s he had lessons from Arthur Bliss ( then in Santa Barbara ) and the senior American composer and researcher of American Indian ( then called " Red Indian ") music, Arthur Farwell.

Though closed circuit feedback was a prominent feature in many early experimental electronic music compositions, it was contemporary American composer Robert Ashley who first used acoustic feedback as sound material in his work The Wolfman ( 1964 ).

Though creating seventeen leading roles for Handel ( including Giulio Cesare, Orlando, and Bertarido in Rodelinda ), his relationship with the composer was frequently stormy: " the one was perfectly refractory ; the other was equally outrageous ", according to the contemporary historian Mainwaring.

Though Lucier had composed chamber and orchestral works since 1952, the composer and his critics count his 1965 composition Music for Solo Performer as the proper beginning of his compositional career.

Though classical music was Strayhorn ’ s first love, his ambition to become a classical composer was shot down by the harsh reality of a black man trying to make it in the then almost completely white classical world.

Though founded in 1857, the Peabody Institute did not hold an orchestral concert until after the Civil War, when James Monroe Deems directed a concert ; Deems was a musician and composer, known for Nebuchadnezzar, one of the first American oratorios.

Though largely self-taught, he did receive some advice from Willem Pijper, the doyen of Dutch composers at the time, but their musical views differed widely and after Pijper had attempted to discourage Badings from continuing as a composer, Badings broke off contact.

Though the composer uses the term " expressivist " to describe his music, he is often associated with post-minimalism.

From The New York Times: " Though the work featured memorable dance sequences by a choreographer on the rise named Michael Bennett, what really set it apart was its score, written by the solid-gold pop composer Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David.

Though diagnosed with breast cancer at 26, Creed kept on working, teaming with composer Michael Masser and writing the lyrics to " Greatest Love of All " for the 1977 Muhammad Ali biopic The Greatest ; in the spring of 1986, the song topped the charts for singer Whitney Houston.

Though all of New Order's songs are credited as group compositions, it is known that the chief composer of " Procession " is Stephen Morris.

Though predominantly a composer of frottolas, a light secular form and ancestor of the madrigal, he also wrote a few sacred pieces, including a three-voice Salve Regina ( one of the Marian Antiphons ) as well as seven laude spirituali.

Though famous in his day, he is remembered mainly for his close professional relationship and friendship with composer Franz Schubert.

Though the composer is sometimes regarded as following an Impressionist idiom, Tzigane clearly demonstrates Ravel's ability to imitate the ( late ) Romantic style of violin showmanship promoted by such composer-virtuosi as Paganini and Sarasate.

Though best known as a composer of instrumental sonatas, he was predominantly a composer of liturgical music with a distinctly dramatic character.

Though she lived an abbreviated life, dying shortly before her 27th birthday, Owen was a prolific composer, as well as a member of influential intellectual circles.

Though it is frequently listed, even on record and CD covers, as a symphony for orchestra " and organ ", the composer inscribed it as: Symphonie No. 3 " avec orgue " ( with organ ).

Though routinely described ( by the composer as well as others ) as a " serial " composition, Kreuzspiel does not employ a referential, recurring twelve tone ordered set.

Though the methods of deciding may be profound and diverse, the possible conclusions remain but two.

Though Carrel was skeptical about meeting with a priest Presse ended up having a profound influence on the rest of Carrel's life.

Though Advaita philosophy existed from the period of the Vedanta and the Upanishads, and was advocated by many saints like Sukha, Sanaka, Goudapada and Govinda Bhagvatpada, Adi Shankara is its most famous and profound presenter ..

Though the work was not well received in the Muslim community, Averroism went on to have a profound influence in European thought.

Though neither so learned and condensed as the contributions of Gieseler, nor so original and profound as those of Neander, his lectures are clear, attractive and free from narrow sectarian prejudice.

Though not a profound philosophical thinker, Thomasius prepared the way for great reforms in philosophy, as well as in law, literature, social life and theology.

Though no orator, and in spite of a personality not particularly amiable or winning, he produced a profound impression upon young men by the pregnancy of his expression, a consistent logical method of thought based on Immanuel Kant and by the manliness of his character.

Though he now has all of his memories, his healing abilities can provide increased recovery from psychological trauma by suppressing memories in which he experiences profound distress.

Fétis later applied this same system of ordres to rhythm, “ the least advanced part of music ... great things remain to be discovered .” Though he did not publish these theories in any of his treatises, they appear in several articles for the Revue musicale and in some lectures which had a profound impact on Liszt.

Though a light restyling of the Ibiza Mk1 came in late 1988 with a moderate facelift in the exterior, a less radical interior and many changes in the mechanical parts, the most profound restyling was launched in 1991 under the name New style.

Though his family was not strict in their religious practices, his religion had a profound influence on him.

Though cherishing a strong antipathy to the received ecclesiastical formulas, Irving's great aim was to revive the antique style of thought and sentiment which had hardened into these formulas, and by this means to supplant the new influences, the accidental and temporary moral shortcomings of which he detected with instinctive certainty, but whose profound and real tendencies were utterly beyond the reach of his conjecture.

Though earlier Tibetan contact has left a profound influence upon the people of both Kargil and Leh, after the spread of Shia Islam the people of Kargil came under heavy influence of Persian culture.

Though the incident had profound physical and psychological effects, Hamer returned to Mississippi to organize voter registration drives, including the " Freedom Ballot Campaign ", a mock election, in 1963, and the " Freedom Summer " initiative in 1964.

Though the incident itself is unimportant to the lives of the characters, the potential for the rumor to incite race riots in metropolitan Atlanta has a profound effect on all of their lives.

* Though the intellect remains unimpaired and though perception is enormously improved, the will suffers a profound change for the worse.

Though not a native of Evenkia, Nikolai Nikolaevich has also had a profound effect on Evenk music.

Though himself of middle-class origin, Hübner was a profound admirer of the old aristocratic regime, and found his political ideals in his former chiefs, Metternich and Schwarzenberg.

Though Carr was willing to grant individuals a role in history, he argued that those who focus exclusively on individuals in a Great man theory of history were doing a profound disservice to the past.

Though the reputations of many of these writers had faded by the mid-20th century, the influence of the symbolist movement was nonetheless profound.

Though still could not gain full understanding of the profound ancient classics, he had already laid a solid foundation in mastering the Chinese language.

Though he died in 1959 in Sikkim, and is not so well known in the West ; he was a major proponent of the Rime movement within Tibetan Buddhism, and had a profound influence on many of the Tibetan lamas teaching today.