He always preferred to consider himself a songwriter, rather than a composer, a word he considered pretentious.

By this line of reasoning, Mahler could never be considered a Jewish composer.

Henry was considered a talented composer and poet by his contemporaries.

Once there, Prokofiev made a name for himself as a skilled pianist but was considered a difficult and unusual composer.

By 1910, he was considered a composer of such distinction that the Tsar awarded him an annual pension.

It may seem a stretch to consider a composer who died at 35 to have had a late period.

Although his compositional output was relatively small, he is considered a great composer of marches.

He is an artist in the electronica genre - most often considered a composer of trance music, but known to work within several other styles.

I went after that category, what America considers a serious composer.

"I consider him a major composer of our day, a master of harmony and counterpoint."