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{{short description|Person who writes music}}
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[[File:Walentin Alexandrowitsch Serow 004.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Portrait of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] composing at his desk, by [[Valentin Serov]], 1898]]

A '''composer''' is a person who writes [[music]].{{sfn|''OED'': composer|loc=3.}} The term is especially used to indicate composers of [[Classical music|Western classical music]],<ref name="Collins"/> or those who are composers by occupation.<ref name="NOAD"/> Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.