historiography vs composition

historiography and composition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
historiography	Yes	No	No	No
composition	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, composition is a hypernym of historiography; that is, composition is a word with a broader meaning than historiography:

Other hypernyms of historiography include authorship, penning, writing.

historiography (noun)	composition (noun)
the writing of history	the act of creating written works
a body of historical literature	musical creation
	something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole
	the way in which someone or something is composed
	the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole
	an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
	a musical work that has been created
	art and technique of printing with movable type
	a mixture of ingredients