# composer

Pronunciation: US say "kuhm-POH-zur" /kəmˈpoʊzəɹ/; UK say "kuhm-POH-zuh" /kəmˈpəʊzə/

## Noun

1. A person who composes music, creating original works for performance.
   - Simple: A person who writes music, such as songs or pieces for instruments.
   - _The composer spent two years writing the symphony's final movement._
   - _Several contemporary composers blend electronic sounds with orchestral instruments._
2. A person who composes or puts together a work; an author of written or artistic material.
   - Simple: A person who writes or puts together a work, such as a book or poem.
   - _The composer of the treatise arranged each argument with great care._
   - _As composers of dense legal documents, the clerks chose every word deliberately._
3. A person or thing that quiets or calms, settling whatever is agitated or disturbed.
   - Simple: A person or thing that calms or quiets something that is upset or troubled.

## Origin

Formed from the verb "compose" combined with the suffix "-er".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/composer (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).