1.   Purcell, Vivaldi and Telemann were among his favourite classical composers.

2.   Today, the names of the famous classical composers are associated with particular piano builders.

3.   And here we have a three-hour-long film in costumes and wigs, about classical composers, no stars.

4.   By contrast, Ellington read the Bible and never had much interest in studying the work of classical composers in depth.

5.   Classical composer Lowell Lieberman is completing an opera based on The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel.

6.   Contemporary classical composers writing for stringed instruments are becoming more and more minimal, trying to find new feelings rather than new scales or notes.

7.   Dukelsky, the classical composer, was in business.

8.   Elsewhere, Cowen notes that CDs of works by even obscure contemporary classical composers can be found for sale in suburban shopping malls.

9.   From angry young rocker to offbeat classical composer, Joe Jackson has come a long way.

10.   From classical composers to rap samplers, musicians have been working variations on borrowed themes for centuries.