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    PIANIST

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person who plays the pianoplay

    Synonyms:

    pianist; piano player

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("pianist" is a kind of...):

    instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))

    Instance hyponyms:

    Rudolf Serkin; Serkin (United States concert pianist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1903-1991))

    Clara Josephine Schumann; Schumann (German pianist and composer of piano music; renowned for her interpretation of music, especially the music of her husband Robert Schumann (1819-1896))

    Artur Schnabel; Schnabel (United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951))

    Charles Camille Saint-Saens; Saint-Saens (French pianist and composer (1835-1921))

    Arthur Rubinstein; Artur Rubinstein; Rubinstein (United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982))

    Anton Gregor Rubinstein; Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein; Anton Rubenstein; Rubinstein (Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894))

    Rachmaninoff; Rachmaninov; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Sergei Rachmaninov; Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff; Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov (composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943))

    Francis Poulenc; Poulenc (French pianist and composer (1899-1963))

    Ignace Jan Paderewski; Ignace Paderewski; Paderewski (Polish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941))

    Franz Liszt; Liszt (Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886))

    Jerry Lee Lewis; Lewis (United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935))

    Horowitz; Vladimir Horowitz (Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989))

    Dame Myra Hess; Hess (English pianist (1890-1965))

    Falla; Manuel de Falla (Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946))

    Czerny; Karl Czerny (Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857))

    Chopin; Frederic Francois Chopin (French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849))

    Blitzstein; Marc Blitzstein (United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964))

    Bartok; Bela Bartok (Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945))

    Derivation:

    piano (a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)

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