George Gershwin.
The first composer that comes to mind is Dmitri Shostakovich, though I'm certain there must be others.
Some ways that modern western composer have been influenced by world music is by including tribal and cultural sounds to their classical pieces of work.
The composer of the music and lyrics is unknown.
The composer of the music for the film romeo and juliet is Henry Mancini.
Bluegrass was inspired by Appalachian music and also has roots in Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English traditional music. It was also later influenced by elements of African American music and jazz.
Composer Edvard Grieg merged a Classical and Romantic style of music with traditional.
The first composer that comes to mind is Dmitri Shostakovich, though I'm certain there must be others.
Stephen Cohn is an Emmy winning composer of film and concert music living in Los Angeles, California. www.stephenCohn.com
Some ways that modern western composer have been influenced by world music is by including tribal and cultural sounds to their classical pieces of work.
Steve Reich is best known for being an American composer who influenced many groups and who was a pioneering composer of minimal music. He was born October 3, 1936.
Schubert was a prolific composer and a pianist. His music was heavily influenced by Beethoven. He is most famous for his 600+ art songs.
Traditional Mexican music has been influenced by both pre-Columbian as well as Spanish music. More modern music has been influenced by many other countries, such as Texas (Norteña, Duranguense), Cuba (Salsa, Mambo) or Colombia (Cumbia).
The composer who most heavily influenced the music of the French post-WWI school of musicians known as Les Six, was Erik Satie.
A music composer is a writer of music by definition. A composer can write sung lyrics, notes and entire orchestra scores, for example.
It can be all of them. Traditional folk music is usually singers and instrumentalists and generally has an unknown composer, but 20th century folk music is very similar, except we know of the composers.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini the popular Italian composer composed operas, sacred music and chamber music. His affect on music today would be highly subjective and would need research on the modern composers - biographies etc - to see if in fact his music influenced any modern composer. Some basic links are listed below that should help your research.
This is the French composer Eric Satie.