''How to Be a Composer'' is a British television documentary first shown on BBC Four in July 2009.

Background

The show (2 × 1 hr, made by Diverse Production, produced and directed by Paul Yule), was based around the former '' New Musical Express'' journalist

Paul Morley Paul Robert Morley is an English music journalist. He wrote for the ''New Musical Express'' from 1977 to 1983 and has since written for a wide range of publications as well as writing his own books. He was a co-founder of the record label ZTT Re ...

learning how to create a piece of classical music. The films observe Morley spending a year at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

. Even though Morley begins neither knowing how to read music nor how to play a musical instrument, by the end of the year, with the help of his tutor Christopher Austin and the students at the academy, we see the performance of his String Quartet.

External links

* BBC television documentaries 2000s British documentary television series 2000s British music television series 2009 British television series debuts 2009 British television series endings Royal Academy of Music {{BBC-tv-prog-stub