The composer Strauss was once challenged to a duel.
The famous jazz musician, Duke Ellington, was a composer, arranger and pianist.
As a composer, he was up there with the best.
In my opinion, no other composers even begin to approach Mozart.
Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin were leading Romantic composers.
From an electroacoustic composer's perspective, 'entering' the sonic interior can mean different things.
This paper addresses the overwhelming importance which computer music composers usually place on the structural elements of their music.
Probably, once the 'affirmation of life' has been tamed, composers will find it more useful.