As a composer Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.
Lalo Schifrin is best known as a composer of film and TV scores.
As a composer, Berkeley has written for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Proms and the Royal Ballet.
The long-standing image of Mahler as a composer of doom has been set aside, in part through Mr Kaplan's advocacy.
In a career spanning more than three decades, Laurie Anderson has established herself as a composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker and touring musician.
Both of his parents were involved in the Chinese opera, his mother as a singer and his father as a composer.
Many regard him as a major poet, but Mr Venables said Gurney thought of himself "as a composer first and poet second".
As a composer, Tower was keenly aware that the piece would be performed by a wide variety of orchestras, varying in quality.
As a composer, Gress is interested in unifying the sound of an album by writing themes that echo or resonate off each other.
In the end he was cleared, but for several years found it difficult to get work as a composer, and took a job as a gardener.
His versatility as a composer is perhaps best captured by those who have performed his music, including everyone from country crooners Kenny Rogers and Trisha Yearwood to Patti LaBelle and Natalie Cole.
Since then, however, he's never fully capitalized on his early momentum: Though in demand as a composer of movie scores, he's still often overshadowed by his brother Sean and his wife, singer-songwriter Aimee Mann.
"I knew before that it would be so difficult for me as a composer because traditional musical instruments are never played in big performances, Cambodian musicians never read (musical) notes, they don't work with a conductor and especially related to the tune -- the pitch of traditional instruments -- it's not enough tune to perform with the rock band, " Him Sophy said.
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"Hans Zimmer has shown himself to be a great man as well as a great composer, " added Chris Lyne.
The committee described 60-year-old Saariaho as a unique composer "who re-examines what music can be" by combining acoustic instruments with electronics and computers.
As a successful composer, he has placed his musical stamp on nearly 40 films, as well as creating works for the opera, ballet, and symphony.
The word is also used in contexts that are subjective such as when a composer strives for artistic integrity or a philosopher considers what it means to be a person of integrity.
Mr. Lewis's celebrated work as a trombonist and composer demonstrates his ability to think beyond genre.
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Mr. Say, who is also a leading composer, served as a European Union culture ambassador in 2008 and is currently performing in Germany.
"My character is a musician, a composer and he works as a bartender, " Jordan said.
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It could stand as a motto for all the composer's recent music, every note of which is a prize won from 80 years of continuous creativity.
What we know him for in this country is his work as a very North American composer of film and television scores.
He was nearly always controversial, exciting and popular, whether as a brash teenager, composer of cutting-edge operas or grand old man of the concert hall.
He said his career as a musical director and composer had led him to decide that his own epitaph will be: "Benjamin Till: The Musical".
Sitting backstage at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, waiting to catch another preview of her 15-song debut as a Broadway lyricist and composer, Lauper is both nervous and humble.
As a result, the Austrian composer Erich Zeisl and his wife were able to reach out to Morris Zeisel, a New York plumber.
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