---
title: 'Death of a Composer (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Peter Greenaway'
released: '1999-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 90
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'Netherlands'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/death-of-a-composer-1999'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209993/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Death of a Composer (1999)

1999 · 90 min · Drama, Western · Netherlands


## Synopsis

Rosa, A Horse Drama also called Rosa – The Death of a Composer is an opera in 12 scenes by Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen with a libretto by English film maker Peter Greenaway. The libretto was the sixth in Greenaway's Death of a Composer series which explores the deaths of ten 20th-century composers, two real, and the remaining eight fictional. It premiered at the Dutch National Opera on 2 November 1994 in a production co-directed by Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke. A recording of the opera was released on the Nonesuch label in 1998; Asko/Schönberg, conductor Reinbert de Leeuw.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Peter Greenaway](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-greenaway)
- **Screenplay:** [Peter Greenaway](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-greenaway)
- **Producer:** [George van Breemen](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-van-breemen)

## Cast

- [Miranda van Kralingen](https://cinepixo.com/people/miranda-van-kralingen)
- [Marie Angel](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-angel)
- [Peter Greenaway](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-greenaway)
- [Lyndon Terracini](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyndon-terracini)

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