Definitions for composer
kəmˈpoʊ zərcom·pos·er

Princeton's WordNet(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. composernoun

   someone who composes music as a profession

Wiktionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. composernoun

   One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.

2. composernoun

   One who, or that which, quits or calms.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Composernoun

   Etymology: from compose.

   1. An author; a writer.

   Now will be the right season of forming them to be able writers and composers in every excellent matter. John Milton.

   If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least do no harm, and shew an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 40.

   2. He that adapts the musick to words; he that forms a tune.

   For composition I prefer next Ludovico, a most judicious and sweet composer. Henry Peacham, of Musick.

   The composer has so expressed my sense, where I intended to move the passions, that he seems to have been the poet as well as the composer. John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, Preface.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Composernoun

   one who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music

2. Composernoun

   one who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference

Freebase(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Composer

   A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material as electroacoustic music.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. composer

   A person who creates songs

   
   

   Submitted by kdubred on May 4, 2021  

Matched Categories

1. • Musician

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'composer' in Nouns Frequency: #2311

How to pronounce composer?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of composer in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of composer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of composer in a Sentence

1. Peter Ross:

   You have to go to the composer himself, or his heirs, play the work, and get his approval, that, he never did.

2. Manu Dibango:

   It has moved beyond me. It is good in a way, once a song becomes a standard, it no longer belongs to the composer but to the person who interprets it.

3. Ulrich Leisinger:

   Here we have a short, not great, piece by Mozart, but at least something that really sheds new light on his daily life as an opera composer in Vienna.

4. Germany Richard Wagner:

   Finally the people here in Bayreuth understand that this is the most important composer of the world and he has to have a museum and that is done now, so it's great.

5. Frank Zappa:

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

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