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Definition of Pianist
1. Noun. A person who plays the piano.
Generic synonyms: Instrumentalist, Musician, Player
Specialized synonyms: Bartok, Bela Bartok, Blitzstein, Marc Blitzstein, Chopin, Frederic Francois Chopin, Czerny, Karl Czerny, Falla, Manuel De Falla, Dame Myra Hess, Hess, Horowitz, Vladimir Horowitz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lewis, Franz Liszt, Liszt, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Paderewski, Francis Poulenc, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov, Anton Gregor Rubinstein, Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein, Anton Rubenstein, Rubinstein, Arthur Rubinstein, Artur Rubinstein, Rubinstein, Charles Camille Saint-saens, Saint-saens, Artur Schnabel, Schnabel, Clara Josephine Schumann, Schumann, Rudolf Serkin, Serkin
Derivative terms: Piano
Definition of Pianist
1. n. A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.
Definition of Pianist
1. Noun. A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra. ¹
2. Noun. (context: World War II WWII) A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pianist
1. one who plays the piano [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pianist
Literary usage of Pianist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF PADEREWSKI THE pianist BY TP CURRIER ROM the frequent
adverse criticisms that are read and heard concerning the great pianist, ..."
2. Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History by John Henniker Heaton (1879)
"Madame Jaffa, pianist, first appearance at Exchange, Sydney, September 19, 1859.
... Maud Fitz-Stubbs, juvenile amateur pianist. first appeared in public at ..."
3. Schubert by Edmondstoune Duncan (1905)
"THE musician in Schubert was chiefly manifested in his works, for though a gifted
singer and violinist in his school-days, and a passable pianist in later ..."
4. Success in Music and how it is Won by Henry Theophilus Finck, Ignace Jan Paderewski (1909)
"XV CHOPIN AS pianist AND TEACHER Two years after Beethoven died in Vienna, ...
His style was different from that of any other pianist ever heard there, ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"I saw the other day a letter from a noted pianist to the president of one of ...
Here you see how a pianist can be debarred from a most important musical ..."
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