How to Use composer in a Sentence

composer

noun
  • She prefers Mozart and Beethoven to modern composers.
  • As the sole composer of the soundtrack, Jia-Kai faced a unique challenge.
    Billboard China, Billboard, 21 June 2023
  • Of these roles, women saw gains as composers on the top 250 films, improving by 6%.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Jan. 2024
  • That’s where composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer comes in.
    Ilana Woldenberg, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Rogers led the work with confidence and clarity to match the composer’s.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s hoping the NSO follows the composer’s lead and more fearlessly plays to its strengths.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • David Holmes, the composer of the show, revealed last year that the Irish singer had given her permission for the song to debut in the TV series.
    Maëlle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • With the new album, Hall has built a universe in miniature, suiting his strengths as a composer.
    Grant Sharples, SPIN, 11 May 2023
  • The venerable jazz sax and flute player and composer has lived here with his wife, Dorothy Darr, for about 25 years.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2024
  • There's no longer a concert, nor does Sebastian seem to be the king's court composer anymore.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 May 2023
  • And any mention of the actor and composer as porcines of interest would be pure hogwash.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2023
  • Hiro’s assignment was not just to turn Cooper into Bernstein but to age him, so as to tell the story of a fifty-year span of the composer’s life.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • One of the most prolific composers of Jewish dialect songs was Irving Berlin.
    Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
  • On this date: In 1797, composer Franz Schubert was born in Vienna.
    Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Acharya is an Australian composer who is known for his studio albums and music for film.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Here, the composer counted years, 20 for Disney, with a sequence of 20 chords, used in various sequences, this way and that, and as palindromes.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Laurie Anderson and the composer Jlin both write of Glass creating a sense of the infinite.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • It wasn’t recorded with a full orchestra, and composer Danny Bensi played most of the strings himself.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 June 2023
  • The multi-faceted composer also had another string to his bow.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • When Nolan approached Göransson with his nearly 300-page script for Oppenheimer, the composer was intrigued from the very first page.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Samuel, 44, also serves as the film’s writer, producer, and composer, making this project a true labor of love.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Sam Levy is the cinematographer and Bryce Dessner is the composer.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
  • At one moment, the angels by the floor-length picture window soared with the ephemeral 16th-century score by composer Thomas Tallis, then the basses against the south wall would take it low and deep.
    Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Users on TikTok noted the similarities in a series of videos, with the composer of the TV theme song also weighing in.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2024
  • This year, the director is Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe.
    David Lyman, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
  • What these social media users and moodboard composers appear to miss is that aesthetics are simply not enough.
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The composer spent nine months creating more than three hours of music for the biopic of nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Broadway composers used to composing reams of new material almost up to opening night may read this and weep.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • In that year, two 22-year old German composers wrote some of their most precocious and important vocal music, pieces that to this day remain central to the repertoire.
    Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
  • In Mellon’s case, those notes are cribbed from 20th-century composer Florence Price.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 July 2023

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