So, in the end, does the opera as a whole, though the composer surely never intended it to do without them.

If the music makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up then it has done what the composer and conductor presumably intended.

"To tell it clearly and dramatically, as the composer intended."

There were times on Thursday night when the work inspired precisely the wonder that the composer intended.

Neither plan really materialized the way the composer intended.

The composer intended the second concerto to be more accessible than the first.

The composer had intended to publish his symphonies only after his death.

Another development has been the growth of the "authentic" or "period performance" movement, which attempts to present music as the composer intended it.

This is the part that the composer intended the musicians to follow, no matter what.

Many a musical work can seem an affliction, usually because the composer intends to provoke or is simply incompetent.