Definition of Recitalist

1. Noun. A musician who gives recitals.

Generic synonyms: Soloist
Derivative terms: Recital, Recital

Definition of Recitalist

1. Noun. A person who performs in recitals. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recitalist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recitalist

recircuited
recircuiting
recircuits
recirculate
recirculated
recirculates
recirculating
recirculation
recirculations
recision
recisions
recission
recissions
recit
recital
recitalist (current term)
recitalists
recitals
recitation
recitational
recitations
recitative
recitativelike
recitatively
recitatives
recitativi
recitativo
recitativos
recite
recited

Literary usage of Recitalist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Musical World (1888)
"But the recitalist occupies a position which may be called educational and persuasive. He must endeavour to guide the popular ear towards the enjoyment of ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"Topsham, Vt., 1852), after four years' study at Berlin, has been an able organist in Detroit, teacher in the Detroit Conservatory and recitalist elsewhere. ..."

3. Who's who in Music in California by Willey Francis Gates (1920)
"Specializes as recitalist in her own compositions. Has appeared on numerous occasions in NC. Pa., Ills., la., and other states. Later studied with Fred'k ..."

4. Who's who in Music in California by Willey Francis Gates (1920)
"Specializes as recitalist in her own compositions. Has appeared on numerous occasions in NC. Pa., Ills., la., and other states. Later studied with Fred'k ..."

5. British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors and by James Duff Brown, Stephen Samuel Stratton (1897)
"As a recitalist has been heard at the different exhibitions South ... the 25th Regiment, King's Own Borderers, organ recitalist, etc. ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"All this, the recitalist proudly declared, could be done rightly only by a musician. Let us hope the old man was ..."

7. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (1919)
"... Phila., and since 1914 also at Ivy Hall, Bridgeton, NJ; has appeared as recitalist in Eastern cities. ARCO (London, 1897); FAGO, 1903; ..."

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