symphonist

noun

sym·​pho·​nist ˈsim(p)-fə-nist 

1

: a member of a symphony orchestra

2

: a composer of symphonies

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Before that, a preconcert panel of Price scholars and current CSO composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery discussed the symphonist’s remarkable life and even more remarkable music. —Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2022

A decade after basing a whole festival on Bruckner and minimalist master John Adams, Franz Welser-Most Thursday night at Severance Music Center juxtaposed the grand Austrian symphonist with Arnold Schoenberg, the father of serialism. —Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Feb. 2022

He was viewed as the greatest symphonist since Brahms, but at a certain point—mysteriously—no new works appeared. —Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021

During much of his lifetime, he was generally considered the greatest symphonist after Brahms. —Tim Page, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021

But for essentially all of the '90s and '00s, Reznor was the driving force between one of the most consistently successful acts in alternative, industrial rock symphonists Nine Inch Nails. —Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2019

The masterstroke is Zimmer’s introduction of a quotation from the Enigma Variations of Edward Elgar — the symphonist whose music most fully embodies the British soul — with a slow burn that still amounted to playing with fire. —David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 17 July 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

1767, in the meaning defined at sense 1