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composer

Also known as music composer, music by, composed by, music composed by

thumb|upright=1.3|Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composing at his desk, by [[Valentin Serov, 1898]]

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A composer is a person who creates musical works by writing down notes and instructions that musicians perform. Composers matter because they are the creative force behind the music we hear—from classical symphonies to modern film scores—shaping cultural expression and artistic tradition across generations.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: occupation
Subclass of: author
Image: Beethoven.jpg
Patron saint: Saint Cecilia
Field of occupation: composed musical work

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female form of label: cumpusitrice
topic's main category: Category:Composers
Commons category: Composers
ISCO-88 occupation class: 2453
category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after composers
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ISCO-08 occupation class: 2652
male form of label: cumpusitore
topic has template: Template:Infobox classical composer

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Encyclopedic overview

15 sections

Contents

Etymology and definition
Role in the Western world
Relationship with performers
History of employment
Role of women
Modern training
Undergraduate
Masters
Doctoral
Other routes
References
Citations
General and cited sources
Further reading
External links

thumb|upright=1.3|Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composing at his desk, by [[Valentin Serov, 1898]]

A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “composer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.