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‖ maestro di cappella Mus.|maˈɛstro di kapˈpɛlla, ˈmaɪstrəʊ diː kæˈpɛlə|
Also maestro di capella.
[It., lit. ‘master of the chapel’.]
= kapellmeister (see kapelle); choir-master; musical director, conductor.
1724Short Explication Foreign Words in Musick Bks. 44 Maestro, is Master. Thus, Maestro de capella, is Master of the Chapel Musick or Master of Musick only, meaning thereby one of the first Rank. 1774‘J. Collier’ Mus. Trav. 16 All the musicians of Britain..together with every Maestro di Capella in Italy. 1880J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant xxiii. 316 The elder, whose name was Giacomo Andria, was maestro di capella of one of the churches. 1947C. Gray Contingencies 98 In 1850, Raimondi became maestro di cappella at St. Peter's in Rome. 1964Conc. Oxf. Dict. Opera 238/2 The Maestro di cappella was orig. the equivalent of the German Kapellmeister..but today the term is used only with reference to religious music. |