Composer’s live recording originally taking place in large city (6)
I believe the answer is:
webern
'composer's' is the definition.
(Anton Webern, 1883-1945)
'live recording originally taking place in large city' is the wordplay.
'live' becomes 'be' (synonyms).
'originally' indicates taking the first letters.
'taking place in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'large city' becomes 'wen' (historical term for a large city).
The initial letter of 'recording' is 'r'.
'be'+'r'='ber'
'ber' going within 'wen' is 'WEBERN'.
(Other definitions for webern that I've seen before include "Anton -, composer of 2nd Viennese school" , "Austrian composer" , "Anton von ___ , modern composer" .)