The implication here is, I believe, that "Composers" will show up in the sorting bar. 

However...

You need to turn on Column View, and then you'll see Composers as an option.

There's a "Show Composers" checkbox in the preferences that adds the category to the sorting bar and enables a composers view similar to the one for artists, albeit without the album art.

My only gripe with iTunes is with iTunes Match which still fails to recognize tons of my CDs purchased when I lived in the UK. So most of my UK collection are uploaded rather than matched. It seems, and this is just a guess, that Apple have somehow failed to cross reference the information from UK CDs for iTunes USA. Has anyone else seen this? Or is this a licensing issue maybe?

February, 2013 and we finally have a Composers section. I guess it's never too late but I've long sense altered all my Classical music to list Composer in with the Artist (aka Performer(s)).

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Originally Posted by SolipsismX 

February, 2013 and we finally have a Composers section. I guess it's never too late but I've long sense altered all my Classical music to list Composer in with the Artist (aka Performer(s)).

I've been using the Composer tag for years now. It only required editing view options in list view or column browser to see it as a column. (Deleted all the non-classical entries, but that's just me  )

I like this new preference and this new view though - it brings iTunes close to the iPad Remote.app, which already had Composers. Love the way iOS apps and Mac apps are riffing off each other to improve.

Hmmm... when I closed iTunes 11.0.1 I had 0 unwatched podcasts, after opening 11.0.2 I now have 610 unwatched. Wow, I've got some serious listening to do.

iTunes 11 in general is not Apple's finest hour. It looks (and performs, i.e. poorly) like a web browser with a store bolted on the side. How about they give up their obsession with web controls and actually write an iTunes *Application.*

Tis to Soli's reply above ... Good one! but seriously, even US artists' CDs such as the Eagles purchased in the UK are not being matched. I'm sure the exact same CD purchased in the US would be. So it must be some meta data that iTunes US is not seeing causing this but I am not sure if it is an omission by the Apple database or a licensing issue.