Composer

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.

External links

• Arts Alive - Great Composers
• Boosey & Hawkes - Composers and Repertoire
• Naxos - Composers
• Classical composers
• classical-composers.org — database of composers