PIANO PLAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piano player mean? 

• PIANO PLAYER (noun)
  The noun PIANO PLAYER has 1 sense:

1. a person who plays the piano

  Familiarity information: PIANO PLAYER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIANO PLAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who plays the piano

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pianist; piano player

Hypernyms ("piano player" is a kind of...):

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

Instance hyponyms:

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

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))

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

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))