It was here that he died, broken, and nearly penniless, in 1917, frustrated by his unsuccessful attempts to have his last great compositional effort, the opera 'Treemonisha', performed.

Tchaikovsky did not devote his most serious compositional efforts to these pieces; they were composed to order, and they were a way of supplementing his income.

Irrespective of the original source, Haydn's own compositional efforts went through multiple drafts, discussed by Rosemary Hughes in her biography of the composer.

He imparted to them his musical beliefs, which continued to underlie their thinking long after he left the group in 1871, and encouraged their compositional efforts.

Some consider this to be the band's best overall compositional effort.

Having impressed Rimsky-Korsakov with some of his early compositional efforts, Stravinsky worked under the guidance of the older composer.

After World War II his compositional efforts dropped off.

Romantic Ecstatic Rhetoric The bulk of Nietzsche's compositional efforts were songs and other miniatures in his youth, between 1854 and 1874.

Despite his lack of traditional guidance, his compositional efforts were rewarded when he won the Rubinstein Prize for Composition at the young age of 23.

After 1762, his compositional efforts seem to have been limited to revising his earlier work; and after 1771 he composed not at all.