’ll bet that if you ran a new-music series and gave composers the following choice – “We’ll either give you a $500 honorarium, or you can have $100 and talk about yourself to the audience for 20 minutes” – almost all composers who aren’t in dire financial straits would choose the latter option. When the subject is ourselves, we do not like to shut up. I was on a panel of composers last night preceding the Cutting Edge series concert at Symphony Space, and the desire to chatter on was palpable. William Bolcom was the grand old man of the group, and seemed accustomed to occupying a stage by himself; we all deferred to him and let him talk most. Two of the other composers had, in fact, been students of his. Composer Victoria Bond, who runs the series, has clearly been in the moderation business a long time. She cut off each composer as graciously as though he had come to the end of a prepared text

A person who writes music is known as a composer. Today an incredible variety of music is available, what is amazing about this feat is the fact that a music composer has only about a hundred different musical notes from which he has to create this variety. If we play the same musical note on different musical instruments then each one would produce a different sound. This probably made this task easier for the composers, because they now had a variety of instruments on which they could compose different music. Composers are familiar with all musical instruments and the sounds they produce. A composition generally originates in the composers mind and this idea or tune is then built up piece by piece. Composers usually write music with the help of a musical instrument so that they can play it while writing it. They generally compose the whole score for the entire orchestra, this is then broken down for each instrument in the orchestra and these sheets are handed out to the player of each instrument. Some of the world famous composers include Bach, Handel, Mozart etc.