compose vs create

compose

verb
  • To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work. 

  • To comprise. 

  • To calm; to free from agitation. 

  • To make up the whole; to constitute. 

  • To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement. 

  • To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture. 

  • To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition. 

  • To make something by merging parts. 

create

verb
  • To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative. 

  • To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:) 

  • In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character. 

  • To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute. 

  • To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion. 

  • To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc. 

  • To make a fuss, complain; to shout. 

  • To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used. 

How often have the words compose and create occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )