madrigalist|ˈmædrɪgəlɪst| [f. madrigal n. + -ist.] A writer or composer of madrigals. 1789Burney Hist.Mus. III. 123 The best madrigalists of our country.1888J. A. F. Maitland in Dict.Nat.Biog. XVI. 328/1 In the next few years [after 1596] nearly all the masterpieces of the English madrigalists were issued.