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harpsichordist

NOUN
  1. someone who plays the harpsichord

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  • Ledbetter is a specialist in early music, a harpsichordist, historian and composer, with other writings including Harpsichord and Lute Music in 17 th-Century France and Continuo Playing According to Handel.
  • A harpsichordist named Fernando Valenti sounds like a caricature lounge singer, no? opened the show. Binky Philips: Seeing and Not Seeing Jimi Hendrix
  • I'd go anywhere anytime to hear the fortepianist/harpsichordist Andreas Staier, the counter-tenor Andreas Scholl or the master of classical improvisation Robert Levin. Archive 2006-11-01
  • The gamba is almost always too far forward, with the harpsichordist's right hand coming in a close second and the left hand practically out of it.
  • When I asked harpsichordist and Terezín survivor Zuzana Růžičková whether she had gone to a particular composer's concerts," recalled Michael Beckerman, chairman of the music department at New York University, "she said, 'What, and miss my Greek lessons?' Still, the Music Played On
  • A child of Johann Sebastian's first marriage, he was universally recognised as being one of the greatest harpsichordists of all time.
  • Carl Philipp Emmanuel studied music only with his famous father, and he must have been a brilliant keyboard player; the future Frederick the Great chose the young man to be his harpsichordist, a post he held for almost 30 years.
  • For the harpsichordist the ornaments, the trills and extra notes, are partly there to prolong the note, to emphasise it or give it a certain colour, and on the piano that can be done with the instruments natural sustain and dynamic range.
  • Maria Anna, nicknamed Nannerl, was in fact a gifted composer, singer and harpsichordist. 'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget
  • Very few of us had seen a Lully opera in real life, said harpsichordist Dongsuk Shin. Historic Opera Fit for Kings County
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