composer

composer
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. See artist.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. songwriter, arranger, writer, author, melodist, hymnist, symphonist, songsmith*, tunesmith*; see also author 2 , musician , poet , writer .
Major classical and orchestral composers include: Giovanni Palestrina, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Georg Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Fr?d?ric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Georges Bizet, Hector Berlioz, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Antonin Dvo??k, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov, Giacomo Puccini, Jean Sibelius, Claude Debussy, Arthur S. Sullivan, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Sa?ns, B?la Bart?k, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, John Cage, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein.

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  • composer — [ kɔ̃poze ] v. <conjug. : 1> • XIIe; lat. componere, d apr. poser I ♦ V. tr. 1 ♦ (1559) Former par l assemblage, la combinaison de parties. ⇒ agencer, arranger, assembler, disposer, organiser. Composer un parfum. ⇒ confectionner, préparer.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • composer — COMPOSER. v. act. Former, faire un tout de l assemblage de plusieurs parties. Dieu a composé l homme d un corps et d une âme. Toutes les pièces qui composent cette machine. Les Apothicaires et les Chimistes composent leurs remèdes de plusicurs… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • composer — Composer. v. a. Former, faire un tout de l assemblage de plusieurs parties. Dieu a composé l homme d un corps & d une ame. l Univers est composé de differentes parties. toutes les pieces qui composent cette machine. les Apoticaires & les… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • composer — Composer, act. acut. Digerer par ordre quelque matiere, soit de nostre invention, soit sur celle d autruy, Conscribere, Componere. Composer quelque livre, Librum scribere, Conscribere, Componere. Composer et escrire des vers, Condere carmen,… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Composer — (englisch für „Komponist“) steht für: kurz für IBM Selectric Composer (1966–1978), eine Reihe von in der Drucktechnik verwendeten Schreibmaschinen, die das Setzen im Blocksatz ermöglichten (siehe auch en) den HTML Editor Netscape Composer, einen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Composer — Com*pos er, n. 1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. [1913 Webster] If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • composer — index architect, author (originator) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • composer (2) — composer англ. [кэмпо/узэ] compositeur фр. [композитэр] compositore ит. [композито/рэ] композитор см. также compose …   Словарь иностранных музыкальных терминов

  • composer — one who writes and arranges music, 1590s, agent noun from COMPOSE (Cf. compose). Used in general sense of one who combines into a whole from 1640s, but the music sense remains the predominant one …   Etymology dictionary

  • composer — *writer, author Analogous words: *maker, creator, author: *artist, artificer …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • composer — [n] songwriter melodist, serialist, singer songwriter, songsmith, songster, tunesmith, writer; concept 352 …   New thesaurus

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