Sorting albums by composer?

Hi. I'm in the process of transferring a large (about 4,000 CDs) collection of music to iTunes. 99.9% of these CDs are of opera and classical music.
I want to organize my music alphabetically by composer. Bizarrely, this does not seem to be an option; title is the best I can do, since the composer's name is usually a part of the title.
However, given the opaqueness of iTunes and my own ineptness in figuring it out, it seems entirely possible that there is a way, but that I justs can't find it. Can someone help?
Thank you!

I also use the Composer as the Artist & Album Artist for classical music, either discarding the performer details or placing them in Comments. With recent builds of iTunes 11 there is also an optional Composer view (Edit > Preferences > General, tick Show Composers) but I'm not sure how useful this is.
You might also be interested in this thread: Renaming Classical Music files.
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