Schoenberg's theories have influenced ( either directly or indirectly ) significant numbers of opera composers ever since, even if they themselves did not compose using his techniques.

There were also recordings made conducted by the composers themselves, such as Pablo Sorozábal and Federico Moreno Torroba.

“ it would be dangerous for French composers to ignore systematically the works of their foreign colleagues, and thus form themselves into a sort of national coterie: our musical art, so rich at the present time, would soon degenerate and become isolated by its own academic formulas .”

Beethoven used to say ...' They who thoroughly study Clementi, at the same time make themselves acquainted with Mozart and other composers ; but the converse is not the fact.

A group of anti-modernist musicians, including composers Frederick Stocken and Keith Burstein calling themselves " The Hecklers ," organised a demonstration for the first night of the 1994 revival of Gawain at the Royal Opera House, London.

During this decade, both men made names for themselves as being among the best composers in jazz.

Significant mutations were so imposed on the performing venues, on the way interpreters presented themselves, and on the sung repertoires-striped of any improvised character-cementing a professionalization process of several interpreters, instrument players, song writers and composers, who were then performing at several venues before an increasing audience.

Since the invention of digital technology and audio sampling, many low budget films have been able to rely on digital samples to imitate the sound of live instruments, and many scores are created and performed wholly by the composers themselves, by using sophisticated music composition software.

The artists and composers threw themselves into rallying public support and enthusiasm for the war effort.

Traditional beliefs suggest that the music can be presented to people in dreams and trances, rather than being written by composers themselves.

He also left large holes in the work so that the performers could insert music of their choosing, thus " becoming composers themselves ".

However, it is not in all cases clear which of the two instruments is intended — indeed, it is possible that sometimes the composers themselves were unclear as to the distinction.

Composers are often bound up in a web of tradition and influence, in which they strive to consciously situate themselves in relation to other composers and styles.

The music critic of The Times described him as the last of the line of English composers who confined themselves almost entirely to ecclesiastical music.

Goss was the last of the illustrious line of English composers who confined themselves almost entirely to ecclesiastical music.

Many of the composers of lute songs were themselves lutenists, and performed the songs themselves ; many were also madrigalists or composers of chansons.

Some writers have seen the possible influence of Stockhausen's student La Monte Young and his mid-1960s drone music with The Theater of Eternal Music: influence on already established composers who were themselves his student mentors is not, however, confined to Cage.

The composers for the company are able to procure individual work for themselves as members of Basiscape, as well as collaborate with other staff members on projects that are hired out to Basiscape as a company rather than any one composer, which allows the composers to remain freelancers while having the steady work of a full-time job.

The music sung by gallery choirs often consisted of psalm settings by composers with little formal training, often themselves local teachers or choir members.

Schnebel has become one of the many important postmodern composers through a unique craft, challenging our definitions of music, its limits, and even its unusual sound capabilities from humans themselves.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Some older composers in Naples, notably Zingarelli and Paisiello, were inclined to intrigue against the success of the youthful composer, but all hostility was rendered futile by the enthusiasm that greeted the court performance of his Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, in which Isabella Colbran, who subsequently became the composer's wife, took a leading part.

Although some of his pieces sound similar to those written by minimalist composers, Adams actually rejects the idea of mechanistic procedure-based or process music ; what Adams took away from minimalism was tonality and / or modality, and the rhythmic energy from repetition.

This " theatre of an hour " had great success and zarzuela composers took to the new formula with alacrity.

Some composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Carl Nielsen, continued to write in the traditional four-movement form, while other composers took different approaches: Jean Sibelius ' Symphony No. 7, his last, is in one movement, whereas Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 9, Saint Vartan — originally op.

) In the realm of song, Claude Debussy set both Verlaine's " Pantomime " and Banville's " Pierrot " ( 1842 ) to music in 1881 ( not published until 1926 )— the only precedents among works by major composers being the " Pierrot " section of Telemann's Burlesque Overture ( 1717 – 22 ), Mozart's 1783 " Masquerade " ( in which Mozart himself took the role of Harlequin and his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange, that of Pierrot ), and the " Pierrot " section of Robert Schumann's Carnival ( 1835 ).

Rodgers was influenced by composers such as Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as by the operettas his parents took him to see on Broadway when he was a child.

Perhaps the culmination of the school took place at Darmstadt almost immediately after WWII, at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, wherein Schoenberg — who was invited but too ill to travel — was ultimately usurped in musical ideology by the music of his pupil, Webern, as composers and performers from the Second Viennese School ( e. g. Leibowitz, Rufer, Adorno, Kolisch, Stadlen, Stuckenschmidt, Scherchen ) converged with the new serialists ( e. g. Boulez, Stockhausen, Maderna, Nono, et al.

The tour, facilitated by Nelson Rockefeller, who had recently been appointed as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs ( CIAA ), took Disney and a group of roughly twenty composers, artists, technicians, etc.

Protestant composers took their stories from the Bible, while Catholic composers looked to the lives of saints.

Other changes eventually took place as well, possibly because most composers of oratorios were also popular composers of operas.

In the late 1990s, the Board took tacit note of the criticism leveled at its predecessors for failure to cite two of the country's foremost jazz composers.

( Exactly what hand Prescott took in the music, other than hiring the composers and musicians, is not clear.

Early 20th century composers such as Nielsen, Béla Bartók, Samuel Barber, and Richard Strauss took advantage of the freedom pedal timpani afforded, often giving the timpani the bass line.

He took up a post as music adviser at the nearby Bath Academy of Art and invited young composers to his house, including Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr.

Radio broadcasts took place from the Pavilion and a number of celebrated composers visited during this time, including Igor Stravinsky, William Walton, Ernest John Moeran, Sergei Rachmaninov, Roger Quilter, Balfour Gardiner and Percy Grainger.

Some contemporary critics, particularly Virgil Thomson, also took Toscanini to task for not paying enough attention to the " modern repertoire " ( i. e., 20th-century composers, of which Thomson was one ).

With the return of peace, his career took off rapidly as a composer of what were, for British audiences, startlingly new pieces, often for unusual ensembles, strongly influenced by Ravel, Stravinsky and the young French composers of Les six.

Later, avant garde composers like Arne Nordheim took advantage of technological developments, using a variety of electronic effects and bizarre instrumentation.

Slave composers took material from older songs, such as Christian hymns, and the Bible to create something entirely new and special to the culture.

He took part in first performances of many British works, including composers Vaughan Williams, Dyson, Cyril Scott, E. J. Moeran, Arthur Bliss and Patrick Hadley.