Princeton's WordNet(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. composer(noun)

   someone who composes music as a profession

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. composer(Noun)

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

2. composer(Noun)

   One who, or that which, quits or calms.

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

1. Composer(noun)

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

2. Composer(noun)

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

Freebase(4.00 / 2 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.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

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

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Arthur Honegger:

   There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

2. Leonard Bernstein:

   I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

3. Peter Ross:

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

4. Hector Berlioz:

   Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

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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