compositor

Definitions of compositor
  1. noun
    someone who composes music as a profession
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    Johann Sebastian Bach
    German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827)
    Johannes Brahms
    German composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897)
    Frederic François Chopin
    French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849)
    George Frederick Handel
    a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
    Joseph Haydn
    prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809)
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791)
    Fyodorovich Stravinsky
    composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971)
    Arthur Sullivan
    English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)
    Richard Wagner
    German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
    types:
    salmista
    a composer of sacred songs
    baladista, cancionista
    a composer of words or music for popular songs
    type of:
    músico
    artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
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