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A composer is a person who writes music. The term refers particularly to someone who writes music in some type of musical notation, thus allowing others to perform the music. This distinguishes the composer from a musician who improvises. However, a person may be called a composer without creating music in documentary form, since not all musical genres rely on written notation. In this context, the composer is the originator of the music, and usually its first performer. Later performers then repeat the musical composition they have heard.The level of distinction between composers and other musicians also varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music. For example, in the development of classical music in Europe, the function of composing music initially had no greater importance than the function of performing music. The preservation of individual compositions received little attention, and musicians generally had no qualms about modifying compositions for performance. Over time, however, the written notation of the composer has come to be treated as strict instructions, from which performers should not deviate without good reason. This notion is often seen as a romantic one.
The term "composer" is often used specifically to mean a composer in the Western tradition of classical music. In popular and folk music, the composer is typically called a songwriter, since the music generally takes the form of a song.
1 Lists of composers
- List of composers
- List of opera composersUseful lists are either complete lists or selective lists. This is a selective list. This list is intended to reflect those composers who have made the greatest impact on the modern operatic repertory. Usually, but not always, this has been through sustai
- List of uncategorized composersThis list includes uncategorized composers . Some of them will be added to one of the various genres of music in other pages, and some will remain uncategorized because of the variety of music styles they compose or have composed. To see the lists of comp
- List of soundtrack composersThe following is a list of people who predominantly compose soundtrack music for film (i. film scores) and television: Alan Menken Alan Silvestri Albert Hay Malotte, 1895-1964 Alex North Alfred Newman Andre Previn Antoine Duhamel Basil Poledouris Bernard
1.1 By style, time period, or technique
- List of classical music composersThis is an alphabetical list of classical music composers sorted by eras. Not all composers fit neatly into one and only one category: some, such as Monteverdi, wrote in the style of more than one era. See: list of composers for composers of other genres
- List of 20th century classical composersComposers of 20th century classical music include: A Muhal Richard Abrams (born 1930) John Adams (born 1947) Ahn Eak-tae (1906 1965) Hugo Alfven (1872 1960) Maryanne Amacher (born 1943) Charles Amirkhanian (born 1945) Beth Anderson (born 1950) Louis Andri
- List of 21st century classical composersClassical, 21st century Composers of 21st century classical music include: A Michel van der Aa (born 1970) ssechen Aaq-Swraq (born 1931) Marcello Abbado (born 1926) Keiko Abe (born 1937) Muhal Richard Abrams (born 1930) Jose Antonio Abreu (born 1939) Mich
- List of modernist composersLists of composers by style, time period, or technique: Modernist composers Henry Cowell Ruth Crawford-Seeger Dane Rudhyar Carl Ruggles Charles Seeger Edgard Varese See modernism, dissonant counterpoint, atonality. Modernist.
1.2 By nationality, culture, or identity
