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1755 J. Shebbeare Lett. on Eng. Nation I. xxii. 184 The distinction of Whig and Tory is almost at an end, and the concertists and operasts will probably take their place with equal vehemence; for this nation must be divided by something.

1830 Harmonicon Mar. 109/1 He [sc. Paganini] entered the service of Napoleon's sister, Eliza, Princess of Lucca and Piombino, in the capacity of concertist [Fr. concertiste] and director of the orchestra.

1894 M. W. Sewall World's Congr. of Representative Women II. 756 Music is a profession allowed to women in Italy, and several struggle on as music teachers, and a few rise to the summit of art as opera singers or concertists.

1921 Musical Times 1 Nov. 769/1 Young Italian musicians, who, besides being composers, are all either concertists or teachers.

1996 Billboard 4 May (Latin music section) 26 His first harmony sounds..are undoubtedly the fruit of his mother's classical musical vein as renown concertist.

2006 BusinessWorld (Nexis) 22 Nov. ii. 10 He obtained the First National Prize in Organ in 2002 and started his career as concertist in key cities in Europe.

1884 C. Bell & J. A. Fuller-Maitland tr. P. Spitta J. S. Bach II. 247 If the choir are to perform church pieces properly and as is fitting, the vocalists must again be divided into two classes: concertists [Ger. Concertisten] and ripienists (soloists and choristers).

1908 Zeitschrift 10 44 Bach's concertists sat with the chorus and only came forward when it was their turn to sing.

1962 Mus. & Lett. 43 149 Professor Ehmann argues that the following movements ought to be sung by concertists throughout.

1998 Early Music 26 105/2 Thus the bass concertist makes his first appearance as a soloist..at precisely the point at which a human being begins to imitate Christ.

2009 A. H. Jones in J. C. Conlon Wisdom, Wit, & Will 26 In a Handel oratorio, the strings may divide into concertist and ripienist groups for entire movements.

1942 Music & Lett. 23 308 Other Viennese concertists included..Steffan and Hoffmann and, of course, Haydn.

1972 Musical Times Feb. 152/1 In a chapter dealing with concertists of the Bach family, Forman compares first movements by C.P.E. Bach and J.C. Bach.

1982 Eighteenth-cent. Stud. 16 103 All the composers are called ‘concertists’, perhaps the most unnecessary and tasteless neologism of the twentieth century.

2007 R. D. P. Jones Creative Devel. J. S. Bach I. i. vi.112 His indebtedness to the early concertists Torelli and Albinoni for the ritornello forms of certain early keyboard pieces has already been noted.