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A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.
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(WWII) A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War
Examples of pianists in a Sentence
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A classic of early minimalism, in Piano Phase (1967) the two pianists begin by repeating a rapid figure in unison.
York Bowen ranks as one of the greatest virtuoso pianists England has seen.
Oundle has a large number of gifted pianists, many of whom live in Hong Kong.
The audience at a piano recital does not consist entirely of pianists, or at an opera of operatic singers.
From 1833 to 1848 - when he gave up playing in public - he was greeted with frantic applause as the prince of pianists.
And we are always looking for additional rehearsal pianists (a paid position).
More intimate entertainment includes pianists, cabaret acts, and late-night discos.
Instead, the entertainment options tend to lean toward a variety of music (pianists, string quartets, and jazz bands may all be on board), as well as more unique shows.
His appeal to musicians was made in a threefold capacity, and we have, therefore, to deal with Liszt the unrivalled pianoforte virtuoso (1830 - r848); Liszt the conductor of the "music of the future " at Weimar, the teacher of Tausig, Billow and a host of lesser pianists, the eloquent writer on music and musicians, the champion of Berlioz and Wagner (1848-1861); and Liszt the prolific composer, who for some five-and-thirty years continued to put forth pianoforte pieces, songs, symphonic orchestral pieces, cantatas, masses, psalms and oratorios (1847-1882).
During this period he acted as conductor at court concerts and on special occasions at the theatre, gave lessons to a number of pianists, wrote articles of permanent value on certain works of Berlioz and the early operas of Wagner, and produced those orchestral and choral pieces upon which his reputation as a composer mainly depends.
His ambition to found a school of composers as well as a school of pianists met with complete success on the one hand and partial failure on the other.
Powell is widely held as the most influential of bebop pianists, and many who followed were to sound much like him.