#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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