symphonist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of symphonist
First recorded in 1650–60; symphon(y) + -ist
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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
A mesmerizing American symphonist, Gloria Coates is our last maverick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2014
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
Moussorgsky did not approve of Wagner's gigantic orchestral apparatus; he wished to avoid all that would distract the spectator from the stage—for him Wagner was too much "symphonist," not enough dramatist.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
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