11.   The great composer Bach for example hardly ever left his native Germany.

12.   This was in the days when we were both planning to be great composers.

13.   Already, the concept of an elite caste of dead European great composers, sources of timeless and eternal high art, caricatures itself.

14.   Alvin Ailey always proclaimed Duke Ellington to be not just a great jazz composer but, purely and simply, a great composer.

15.   And for a decade, she was married to Max Steiner, the great composer and progenitor of the art and craft of film music.

16.   At his first lesson, Hlinka introduced Andsnes to the music of Janacek, the great Czech composer.

17.   At the same time, John Adams and Gyorgy Ligeti have begun exploring new scales, as have the great many composers now working with alternative kinds of tuning.

18.   Beginning with Smetana, the great Czech composers developed a grand tradition of quoting Hussite songs.

19.   Both worldly and spiritual, he was above all a great humane composer who understood the pangs of love, the glory of ceremony and the tumult of war.

20.   All the great composers get at least one sound clip, often more.