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composer

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com·pos·er  (km-pzr)
n.
One that composes, especially a person who composes music.

composer
Noun
a person who writes music
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.composercomposer - someone who composes music as a profession
contrapuntist - a composer who specializes in counterpoint
musician - artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
psalmist - a composer of sacred songs; "David is called The Psalmist because he is believed to be the author of the Book of Psalms"
ballad maker, songster, songwriter - a composer of words or music for popular songs
symphonist - a composer of symphonies
Translations
Spanish composer [kəmˈpəuzəʳ] n (MUS) → compositor(a) m/f
French composer [kəmˈpəuzəʳ] compose n (Mus) → compositeur m
German composer [kəmˈpəuzəʳ] compose nKomponist(in) m(f)
Italian composer [kəmˈpəuzəʳ] n (MUS) → compositore/trice

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" This is what is to be read, on the subject of his dramatic triumphs, in 1483, in the accounts of the "Ordinary:" "To Jehan Marchand and Pierre Gringoire, carpenter and composer, who have made and composed the mystery made at the Chãtelet of Paris, at the entry of Monsieur the Legate, and have ordered the personages, clothed and dressed the same, as in the said mystery was required; and likewise, for having made the scaffoldings thereto necessary; and for this deed,--one hundred livres.
There was, as it were, a continual beginning, a preparation of the musical expression of some feeling, but it fell to pieces again directly, breaking into new musical motives, or simply nothing but the whims of the composer, exceedingly complex but disconnected sounds.
For some reason or other the queen had the composer hanged, after dinner.
 
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