English > pianist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who plays the piano. |
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| Synonym | piano player |
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| Instances | Bartok, Bela Bartok | Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music |
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| Blitzstein, Marc Blitzstein | United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964) |
| Chopin, Frederic Francois Chopin | French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849) |
| Czerny, Karl Czerny | Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano |
| Falla, Manuel de Falla | Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946) |
| Hess, Dame Myra Hess | English pianist (1890-1965) |
| Horowitz, Vladimir Horowitz | Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989) |
| Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis | United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935) |
| Liszt, Franz Liszt | Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886) |
| Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Ignace Jan Paderewski | Polish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941) |
| Poulenc, Francis Poulenc | French pianist and composer (1899-1963) |
| Rachmaninoff, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninov, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov | composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943) |
| Rubinstein, Anton Rubenstein, Anton Gregor Rubinstein, Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein | Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894) |
| Rubinstein, Arthur Rubinstein, Artur Rubinstein | United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982) |
| Saint-Saens, Charles Camille Saint-Saens | French pianist and composer (1835-1921) |
| Schnabel, Artur Schnabel | United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951) |
| Schumann, Clara Josephine Schumann | German pianist and composer of piano music |
| Serkin, Rudolf Serkin | United States concert pianist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1903-1991) |
| Broader | musician, instrumentalist, player | someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) |
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| Spanish | pianista |
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| Catalan | pianista |
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| Adjectives | pianistic | skilled at or adapted for the piano |
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| Nouns | piano | a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds |
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