Luprano said that while Horner is a great composer, he is not a great singer or pianist.

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"Hans Zimmer has shown himself to be a great man as well as a great composer, " added Chris Lyne.

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Was he a great composer?

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Giuseppe Verdi, he insists, may have been a great opera composer but he was neither a great patriot nor a nationalist.

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Take, for example, Story of a Friendship, the letters of the great Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich (pictured in the photo at top) to Isaak Glikman.

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