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Definition of Cellist
1. Noun. Someone who plays a violoncello.
Generic synonyms: Instrumentalist, Musician, Player
Specialized synonyms: Casals, Pablo Casals
Derivative terms: Cello
Definition of Cellist
1. Noun. one who plays the cello ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cellist
1. one who plays the cello [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cellist
Literary usage of Cellist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"... To THE 'cellist LINKE [1825 ?] DEAR LEFT (LINKE) AND RIGHT. As I have heard
much that is good of Herr von Booklet, I think it would be best to ask him ..."
2. The Canadian Album: Men of Canada : Or, Success by Example, in Religion by William Cochrane, John Castell Hopkins, W. J. Hunter (1896)
"... violon- cellist, Montreal, was born in that city, Feb. 24th, 1865. His father
was Louis Charbonneau, a retired gentleman, formerly a large mill owner in ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt (1920)
"Denmark, 1881), from 1900 a notable 'cellist in Europe, from 1912 played in the
Philadelphia Orchestra and taught in the Broad Street Conservatory, ..."
4. The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, Isobella S. E. Stigand (1894)
"On the completion of his education he worked for a time as first cellist in the
Mannsfeld orchestra in Dresden, and then he undertook the office of solo ..."
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