"It's obvious that the composers studied the traditional symphonic works," he noted.

Many composers since have studied the way that Palestrina wrote, because this is an excellent way to learn to write contrapuntal music.

But the composer also studied composition with Roger Sessions at Juilliard.

The composer himself studied at the Lyceum in 1823-26.

The best-known composers born around 1910 studied in Europe, mostly in Prague.

Yet while many Japanese composers now study in the West and write for Western instruments, Japanese compositions characteristically remain a world apart.

Nearly all famous French composers and performing musicians studied there, and many young musicians came from abroad to study.

In it, he discusses what writers, poets, composers, philosophers, and artists a gentlemen should study in order to become well-educated.

She also pointed out that few painters are self-taught and that most composers have studied at least the rudiments of musical composition.

The young composer, eager to understand how poetry functioned so that he could better set it to music, studied with Roethke at the University of Washington.