Wynton Marsalis's skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in jazz.

"Holländer," "Tannhäuser" and "Lohengrin" speak of an ambitious composer still working from Italian models and looking for ways to throw them off.

Rich with chromatic harmony, it reveals an ambitious young composer thinking big and enthralled by Wagner.

Mr. Dreznin's later life as an ambitious composer and high-end chamber player has apparently widened him.

Her most ambitious "Making Music" event came on Monday night: an encounter not with one established composer but with four who are emerging, all of them under 35.

But a snag arrived in the form of Schumann's Sonata in G minor, one of the composer's more ambitious and hectic structures.

The young and ambitious composer was operating at a hinge in operatic history.

But Bernstein was an ambitious and prolific composer whose achievements are still undervalued.

But these works show Wylkynson to have been "an extremely ambitious composer and a more than competent one."

Natorp was an ambitious composer, who wrote chiefly chamber music (including a cello sonata, a violin sonata, and a piano trio).