Definition of Composer

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Definition of Composer
	Composer One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference. Related Definitions: An, Author, Difference, Music, Of, One, Or, Piece, Specifically, That, Which, Who

Composer Quotations

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Ansel Adams

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Gianni Versace

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
Leonard Bernstein

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Igor Stravinsky

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Composer Translations

composer in Dutch is toondichter, componist
composer in French is compositeur
composer in German is Komponist
composer in Italian is compositore
composer in Latin is digestor
composer in Portuguese is compositor
composer in Spanish is compositor

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