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ORGANIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organist mean? 

ORGANIST (noun)
  The noun ORGANIST has 1 sense:

1. a person who plays an organplay

  Familiarity information: ORGANIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ORGANIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who plays an organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)


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