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ORGANIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who plays an organ
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("organist" is a kind of...):
instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))
Instance hyponyms:
Bach; Johann Sebastian Bach (German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750))
Anton Bruckner; Bruckner (Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896))
Byrd; William Byrd (English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623))
Couperin; Francois Couperin (French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists (1668-1733))
Henry Purcell; Purcell (English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695))
Albert Schweitzer; Schweitzer (French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965))
Tallis; Thomas Tallis (English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585))
Derivation:
organ ((music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ)
organ (a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows)
organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)
