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She prefers Mozart and Beethoven to modern composers.
a versatile composer whose works include operas, symphonies, concertos, and sonatas
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In other circumstances, history (or, at least, classical-music buffs) would remember him as Kapellmeister to the Emperor of Austria, a skilled court composer of some forty operas, and a mentor to Beethoven and Schubert.
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Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Moore is a multiaward-winning saxophone player, and Wheeler is a Grammy-winning producer, composer and keyboard virtuoso.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
One morning in January 1996, Weil says Larson called him very early, which was not like the late composer.
—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 17 May 2026
The film’s subtle yet propulsive score was the work of Oscar-winning composer David Shire, who two years earlier had composed the score for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2026
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Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Moore is a multiaward-winning saxophone player, and Wheeler is a Grammy-winning producer, composer and keyboard virtuoso.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
One morning in January 1996, Weil says Larson called him very early, which was not like the late composer.
—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 17 May 2026
The film’s subtle yet propulsive score was the work of Oscar-winning composer David Shire, who two years earlier had composed the score for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2026
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“Composer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/composer. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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composer
noun
com·pos·er
kəm-ˈpō-zər 
: one that composes
especially
: a person who writes music
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