How to Use composer in a Sentence

composer

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  • She prefers Mozart and Beethoven to modern composers.
  • This is the second year in a row that the award has gone to a German composer.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2023
  • As the sole composer of the soundtrack, Jia-Kai faced a unique challenge.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 21 June 2023
  • But why did the composer have so much lead in his system?
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
  • Sing Zhang and the film’s soundtrack composer, Alex Minyailo, wrote the lyrics.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
  • What’s more, the tempo a composer hears in his head tends to be faster than what works in practice.
    — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
  • More the attitude of a future composer and DJ than that of a pop star.
    — Mathias Döpfner, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Here, in the hands of a female composer, the flute unravels male guilt.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Of these roles, women saw gains as composers on the top 250 films, improving by 6%.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Like a human composer Shimon has to parse through lots of ideas to choose what’s good from the creations.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The composer calls the score one of the most difficult he’s ever written.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The composers shared an Academy Award and a Grammy Award for their soundtrack score.
    — Tim Greiving, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 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
  • He’s already had one of the greatest careers of any film composer.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • Like many composers over the centuries, Machaut did not lack confidence.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • With the new album, Hall has built a universe in miniature, suiting his strengths as a composer.
    — Grant Sharples, SPIN, 11 May 2023
  • Friends kept locks of the composer’s hair as keepsakes, and some snipped tokens of remembrance at his deathbed.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But in Mendelssohn, of all composers, surely even these call for a certain well-behaved reserve.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
  • As the lights went down, began a rendition of the show's theme song — with composer Ramin Djawadi in the audience to hear it!
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
  • 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
  • Jennifer Lopez is getting the queen treatment from one of Bridgerton’s composers!
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Apart from being her partner in life, Hairston has been a composer and producer on some of his wife’s songs.
    — Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 7 July 2024
  • Even for a composer of Okpebholo’s stature, the barriers to entry for opera are many, and high.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2023
  • Jones broke the color barrier again as the first Black composer to receive name recognition for his film work.
    — Jennifer Frederick, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Spielberg appears early and often here, which makes a certain amount of sense, since the collaboration between the blockbuster director and his favorite composer changed the course of both their careers.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024

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