(1) He longs to be a true symphonist , but sets his private visions to music.(2) Not many concert pianists can quote a major symphonist , let alone relate him to their world.(3) Beethoven, taken as a symphonist , is the most inspired among composers, and the one who composes best for the orchestra.(4) I think it indicates Harris's great sense of musical progress, essential for a symphonist .(5) He had an enviable reputation, once upon a time, as a symphonist of real individuality, like Simpson today.(6) The overall effect of these works is that Tippett was a symphonist of great technical skill and expressive ability.(7) Now he is seen as maybe the greatest symphonist of the 20th century.(8) It was essentially to hone his skills as a symphonist and develop his career as a composer that Bruckner had moved to Vienna, one of the musical capitals of the world.(9) In an uncanny way, he could manage to portray the deeply spiritual side of the symphonist with the craggy, almost brusque facet of the countryman.(10) At one point in his career, many considered Harris the really great American symphonist .(11) When the disc went platinum everyone lost out but consoled themselves by knowing that they had done the impossible - getting a living symphonist to outsell the leading pop stars.(12) I hear in Gerber's music a little bit of Bartók, some Stravinsky, Ravel, Sibelius, and English symphonists as well as movie music, pop jazz, folk song and dance, and even kid song.(13) But it wasn't pastiche; he was working in the style of mid-late 20th century tonal symphonists , if such a style had really existed.(14) When I was young, the two great Romantic symphonists were probably Beethoven and Brahms.(15) In Haydn's time symphonists favoured D and B flat major.(16) The death of Alfred Schnittke in 1998 robbed the world of one of its most distinctive symphonists .
