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Compositions (Anita Baker album)

Compositions is the fourth album by the American R&B/soul singer Anita Baker. The album peaked at #5 on the US Billboard 200 and was certified platinum in 1990, making it Baker's third platinum selling album. The album also won the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 1991 Grammy Awards. Compositions would be the last album and collaboration between Baker and longtime producer Michael J. Powell.

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Furnberg and the success of his compositions for that nobleman at once gave him a distinction among the musicians and dilettanti of Vienna.

The said Vice-Capellmeister shall be under an obligation to compose such music as his Serene Highness may command, and neither to communicate such compositions to any other person, nor to allow them to be copied, but to retain them for the absolute use of his Highness, and not to compose anything for any other person without the knowledge and permission of his Highness.

There is no need to say anything about these compositions, inasmuch as they have gone to oblivion with the instrument which called them into being.

Haydn busied himself on a couple of compositions intended to celebrate his home-coming.

First Symphonies At this point a summary may perhaps be made of the compositions written by Haydn during these five years a Eisenstadt.

Of the string quartets and other instrumental compositions of the period nothing need be said.

They made me an offer to engrave all my future works on very advantageous terms, and are much surprised that my compositions for the voice are so singularly pleasing.

These courtesies to Haydn may perhaps be allowed to balance the apparent incivility shown to Beethoven and Weber, who sent compositions to the same royal amateur that were never so much as acknowledged.

Why should you, who have already produced so many wonderful and charming compositions, still fatigue yourself with such close application?

But Cramer was not a genius of the first rank-- his compositions are of the slightest importance--and there was nothing singular about his appearing along with Haydn.

On this occasion the programme was entirely confined to his own compositions, with the exception of concertos by Viotti, the violinist, and Ferlendis, the oboist.

By concerts, lessons, and symphonies, not counting his other compositions, he had again made 1200 pounds, enough to relieve him from all anxiety as to the future.

I could have got forty ducats from another publisher for these five pieces, and you make too many difficulties about a matter by which, in such short compositions, you have at least a thirty fold profit.

The latter thought highly of him as a composer, declaring that his Church compositions were superior to his own in earnestness, severity of style and sustained power.

He brought with him a number of new compositions, which were, however, written long ago!