#composer  composes music as a profession
  supertype:  #musician  artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
  instance:  #Johann_Sebastian_Bach  #Ludwig_van_Beethoven  #Louis-Hector_Berlioz  #Leonard_Bernstein  #Marc_Blitzstein  #Johannes_Brahms  #Maria_Luigi_Carlo_Zenobio_Cherubini  #Frederic_Francois_Chopin  #Aaron_Copland  #Sir_Noel_Pierce_Coward  #Karl_Czerny  #Claude_Achille_Debussy  #Frederick_Delius  #Gaetano_Donizetti  #Antonin_Dvorak  #Sir_Edward_Elgar  #Georges_Enesco  #George_Gershwin  #Mikhail_Ivanovich_Glinka  #Christoph_Willibald_von_Gluck  #Charles_Francois_Gounod  #George_Percy_Aldridge_Grainger  #Edvard_hagerup_Grieg  #Jacques_Francois_Fromental_Elie_Halevy  #George_Frederick_Handel  #William_Christopher_Handy  #Franz_Joseph_Haydn  #Paul_Hindemith  #Arthur_Honegger  #Engelbert_Humperdinck  #Charles_Edward_Ives  #Scott_Joplin  #Jerome_David_Kern  #Aram_Ilich_Khachaturian  #Leonard_Constant_Lambert  #Franz_Lehar  #Franz_Liszt  #Baron_Lloyd_Webber_of_Sydmonton  #Frederick_Loewe  #Jean_Baptiste_Lully  #Gustav_Mahler  #Jules_Emile_Frederic_Massenet  #Jakob_Ludwig_Felix_Mendelssohn-Bartholdy  #Gian_Carlo_Menotti  #Giacomo_Meyerbeer  #Darius_Milhaud  #Claudio_Monteverdi  #Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart  #Modest_Petrovich_Mussorgsky  #Carl_August_Nielson  #Jacques_Offenbach  #Roy_Orbison  #Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina  #Cole_Albert_Porter  #Sergei_Sergeyevich_Prokofiev  #Giacomo_Puccini  #Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninoff  #Ottorino_Respighi  #Nikolai_Andreyevich_Rimsky-Korsakov  #Richard_Rodgers  #Sigmund_Romberg  #Giloacchino_Antonio_Rossini  #Anton_Grigorevich_Rubinstein  #Erik_Alfred_Leslie_Satie  #Artur_Schnabel  #Arnold_Schonberg  #Franz_Peter_Schubert  #Robert_Alexander_Schumann  #Alexander_Nikolayevich_Scriabin  #Andres_Segovia  #Roger_Huntington_Sessions  #Dmitri_Dmitrievich_Shostakovich  #Johan_Julius_Christian_Sibelius  #Stephen_Sondheim  #John_Philip_Sousa  #Strauss_the_Elder  #Strauss_the_Younger  #Richard_Strauss  #Igor_Fyodorovich_Stravinsky  #Arthur_Seymour_Sullivan  #Joseph_Deems_Taylor  #Peter_Ilich_Tchaikovsky  #Georg_Philipp_Telemann  #Edgard_Varese  #Ralph_Vaughan_Williams  #Guiseppe_Fortunino_Francesco_Verdi  #Antonio_Lucio_Vivaldi  #Wilhelm_Richard_Wagner  #Sir_William_Turner_Walton  #Baron_Karl_Maria_Friedrich_Ernst_von_Weber  #Kurt_Weill  #Hugo_Wolf
  subtype:  #contrapuntist  a composer who specializes in counterpoint
  subtype:  #psalmist  a composer of sacred songs; "David is called The Psalmist because he is believed to be the author of the Book of Psalms
  subtype:  #songwriter__songster__ballad_maker  a composer of words or music for popular songs
     instance:  #Irving_Berlin__Berlin__Israel_Baline  #Hoagland_Howard_Carmichael__Carmichael__Hoagy_Carmichael  #George_Michael_Cohan__Cohan__George_M._Cohan  #Antoine_Domino__Domino__Fats_Domino  #Bob_Dylan__Dylan  #Stephen_Collins_Foster__Foster__Stephen_Foster  #Woodrow_Wilson_Guthrie__Guthrie__Woody_Guthrie  #Buddy_Holly__Holly__Charles_Hardin_Holley  #John_Lennon__Lennon  #Sir_James_Paul_McCartney__McCartney__Paul_McCartney  #Paul_Simon__Simon

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