symphonist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of symphonist
First recorded in 1650–60; symphon(y) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Is Anton Bruckner, an earlier-generation Austrian composer who also wound up in Vienna, edging out Mahler as the symphonist with which to show your stuff?
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019
He wasn’t then appreciated as the greatest symphonist, but he knew he was.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2019
That, however, meant he was looking over his shoulder a lot more than the older composer and was a much bigger mess of a symphonist.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2014
Essentially three character sketches, of Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, with a choral apotheosis tacked on at the end, its structural weaknesses and fitful sense of direction scarcely proclaim a symphonist.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2010
She saw through the rhetorical trickeries of the music, weighed its cheap splendours, realized the mediocrity of this second-rate poet turned symphonist.
From Visionaries by Huneker, James
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