An official in the Pontifical Administration, he also set poetry to music as an amateur.

Composers have always relished setting poetry to music.

He has set poetry, by American librettist Jack Larson, to music.

More recently, Mr. Crisman had set aside poetry and embraced photography, taking pictures of flowers and leaves.

Perhaps Billy should set wrotic poetry as next month's theme.

Most were composed after he moved to Boston, but he continued to set German poetry.

Secondly, that there would be a move away from setting poetry in favour of setting self-written lyrics.

He regarded it as a standard means to set vernacular poetry (Brett 2001).

Some composers at the time liked to set popular poetry to music.

It is popular for headlines, book titles and short texts and is particularly successful for setting poetry.