Certain type of keyboard player

Usage examples of harpsichordist.

I had even run into a harpsichordist who was relentlessly assembling ensembles so she could eventually say she had played the harpsichord part in every one of the 1500 cantatas Allesandro Scarlatti composed.

He compared his anxiety then to that anecdote about Bach entering a party where the harpsichordist broke off in terror at his arrival.

Or the harpsichordist who works his way through the twenty-nine Goldberg Variations before arriving at the final, pure, unadorned truth Bach intended.

I, your friendly neighborhood harpsichordist, had banded together a few months before as Sativa and The Tripouts.

Cheri made her way through the gathered guests, the harpsichordist switched tunes to pluck the melody of O Perfect Love.

This the Organist or Harpsichordist plays again and again, as often as necessary.

Hermann was perhaps the best harpsichordist that Franz had ever heardbetter even than Thomas, which was praise indeed.

Kapellmeister Bach of Leipzig had arrived with his son Wilhelm, having journeyed there to visit another son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, harpsichordist to King Frederick.

He played as I suppose Bach himself would have playedI think at a rather slower tempo than most modern pianists and harpsichordists, though with no loss of rhythm or shape.