The composer abandoned this work before doing any work on it.

The music is often unwieldy: the composer begins a fugue with a cumbersome theme in the last movement, but wisely abandons the idea fairly soon.

In the early 1960's, this composer abandoned academic Serialism for a complex world of quotation and pastiche.

To borrow from the world of pop records, it is as if composers have abandoned the concept album in favor of the single.

Some composers abandoned their early compositions and restarted the opus numbering sequence.

Indeed, the composer himself abandoned his first attempt in Vienna in the early 1860's after no fewer than 77 rehearsals.

The composer ultimately abandoned this symphony, but, in 1893, decided to rework its first movement into a concert piece for piano and orchestra.

More importantly, the composer did not abandon the thought of writing a new symphony based on the program he conceived.

The composer abandoned all operatic plans, changed his style and expected to be shot at any moment.

If anything went wrong in the 20th century, it's that the composer abandoned the stage.