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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pianist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a concert pianist (=who performs in concerts)
▪ Her ambition was to become a concert pianist.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ But - no piano in an album that pays homage to one of the great pianists?
young
▪ The young concert pianist had spent fewer hours reaching concert standard than he had spent achieving a mediocre amateur level.
▪ Today it is the combat in which many young pianists earn their coats of arms as virtuosos.
▪ Help of a more immediately practical nature was given to Manan, a young pianist who was without a piano.
■ NOUN
concert
▪ The programme reveals that the actor was a notable pianist and once considered becoming a concert pianist.
▪ She was studying to become a concert pianist.
▪ The young concert pianist had spent fewer hours reaching concert standard than he had spent achieving a mediocre amateur level.
▪ Her sister Martine, who was a concert pianist, had a coming-out party at the Plaza.
▪ The concert pianist did exactly the opposite.
▪ The man was a visiting Texan who was in Britain as manager of a fellow countryman, a concert pianist.
jazz
▪ For anyone who doesn't know the work of this prodigiously talented jazz pianist, he made one piano sound like three.
▪ He was a local jazz pianist.
▪ In 1995, the state of BadenWuerttemberg blocked a performance by jazz pianist Chick Corea because he is a member.
■ VERB
perform
▪ He remembers seeing blind pianist George Shearing perform in Bisbee, of all places.
play
▪ Built in 1904, there is an intimate, galleried restaurant and elegant lounges where a pianist plays each evening.
▪ Even a pianist can not play a piece the same way twice.
▪ Working with a pianist is like playing chamber music.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pianist neither acquires nor executes the behavior of playing a scale smoothly because of a prior intention of doing so.
▪ A classmate at Fairfax High suggested he meet a pianist studying composition named Mike Stoller.
▪ Born in Buenos Aires, he was proclaimed a musical wunderkind when he made his concert debut as a pianist at seven.
▪ In the scheme of things he rates a number of rungs below a lot of other pianists.
▪ Most of these exhibitions, which pit pianist against pianist as if they were gladiators, came into existence after 1958.
▪ She was studying to become a concert pianist.
▪ The pianist sits and dabs at his keyboard, as though he were sorting cards for a seance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pianist

Pianist \Pi*an"ist\, n. [Cf. F. pianiste, It. pianista.] A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pianist

1822, from French pianiste, from Italian pianista; see piano + -ist. Earlier in English in the French form, pianiste (1816).

Wiktionary
pianist

n. 1 A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra. 2 (context World War II WWII English) A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War

WordNet
pianist

n. a person who plays the piano [syn: piano player]

Wikipedia
Pianist

A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Most forms of Western music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of repertoire and styles to choose from, including traditionally classical music, Jazz, blues and all sorts of popular music, including rock music. Most pianists can, to a certain extent, play other keyboard-related instruments such as the synthesizer, harpsichord, celesta and the organ and keyboard. Perhaps the greatest of all time, Franz Liszt, whose piano mastery was described by Anton Rubinstein: "In comparison with Liszt, all other pianists are children".

Pianist (TV special)

Pianist is a South Korean single-episode television drama starring Choi Minho and Han Ji-hye. It aired on November 27, 2010 as the 24th episode of Drama Special, a weekly program on KBS2 showing short dramas (usually single episodes), with each episode having a different story, cast, director, and writer.

Pianist (disambiguation)

A pianist is one who plays the piano.

Pianist may also refer to:

  • The Pianist (memoir), by Władysław Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish musician who survived the Holocaust
    • The Pianist (2002 film), an English-language movie directed by Roman Polanski, based on the memoir
    • The Pianist (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the above film
  • La Pianiste (2001 film), a French-language film by Michael Haneke, also known as The Piano Teacher
  • The Pianist (1998 film), a Catalan-language film directed by Mario Gas, titled El Pianista in Catalan
  • The Pianist (1991 film), a Canadian film directed by Claude Gagnon
  • The Pianist (painting), a portrait of Stanley Addicks by Thomas Eakins
  • The Pianist (album), an album by Duke Ellington

Usage examples of "pianist".

Madam Anna Bishop was making her American tour, she included San Francisco, and with her troupe came also Alfred Wilkie, tenor, and Frank Gilder of New York, an organist and pianist of high repute.

The Silver Cornet band was under the direction of Professor Henry von der Mehden and Frank Gilder, pianist.

There was a Madame de Raudon, who certainly had a matinee musicale at Wildbad, accompanied by Herr Spoff, premier pianist to the Hospodar of Wallachia, and my little friend Mr.

Light blue and lashless, they looked out upon concert halls in which an imaginary public refused to stop applauding him, Felsner-Imbs the concert pianist.

After a short education at the Prague university Smetana entered diligently upon the study of music, becoming a brilliant pianist, and as such forming one of the circle of enthusiastic and advancing souls surrounding Liszt at Weimar, between 1850 and 1860.

Happy Hart the pianist and Syd Skelton the tympanist and Carlos Rivera the piano-accordionist were, he said and believed, the Tops.

Van der Valk watched Arlette, talking to the pianist, and Hjalmar, chatting with a little group around the bar.

San Francisco in 1852 as solo pianist and accompanist with the famous Catherine Hayes.

When Felsner-Imbs moved to Berlin with hourglass, porcelain ballerina, goldfish, stacks of music, and faded photographs -- Haseloff had engaged him as pianist for the ballet -- Tulla gave him a letter to take with him: for Jenny.

She was outside in the yard and I, with still electric hair, was too slow in following to prevent her assault on the piano teacher and ballet pianist.

Stooped, he strode stiffly to the machine shop and inquired of the machinist when the buzz saw and lathe were planning to take a fairly protracted intermission, because he, the ballet pianist and former concert pianist, wished to practice, very softly, some thing complicated, a so-called adagio.

I am writing, to whom I am writing, although if Brauxel had his way, I should be writing of nothing but Eddi Amsel, Tulla arranged for our watchdog Harras to attack Felsner-Imbs, the piano teacher and ballet pianist, a second time.

His rifle work was a revelation of genius--like the work of a prodigious young pianist or billiardist in the midst of mere natural excellence.

By the time I left, the pianist was playing a Bach partita in a minor key.

The success of these works was such that in 1854 the composer was given a subvention for further foreign study by the Princess Helene and Count Wielhorski, upon which followed four brilliant years of incessant activity as virtuoso pianist and composer, extending as far as London and Paris.