Yet one can't simply assume that, since older composers might have liked modern orchestras, old music should be played by them.

By contrast the older composers wrote with more restraint.

We can't get enough of old composers or old performers.

As with other operas by older composers, this late opera shows a deep understanding of life leading to a return to simplicity.

The older composers saw that he could lead American classical music into the mainstream.

Beethoven, like everyone else, is judged in relation to the older composer.

In 1841, Ingres produced the most celebrated portrait of the old composer.

We do have the benefit of recordings that older composers in other cultures didn't have.

The ballet "made the twenty-eight year old composer famous overnight".

This is most true in the early works which were likely influenced by the older composer.