neoclassicistn.

1899 J. E. Spingarn Hist. Lit. Crit. vi. 158 For the neo-classicists, art was ultimately restricted to moral and psychological observation.

1914 Amer. Econ. Rev. 4 615 The author reveals himself as a neo-classicist.

1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 3 May 197/2 The schools or coteries of the last few decades—the symbolists, neo-classicists, neo-symbolists, [etc.].

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 245 It may seem contradictory to condemn composers like Honegger for basing their work on the contemporary scene after complaining that the neo-classicists are so out of touch with contemporary life.

1944 Burlington Mag. Apr. 97/2 He..gives no hint of any sympathy with the principles of the Neo-Classicists.

1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1063/2 The ‘lower order’ was one which allowed Gay his particularly delicate critical assimilation of the vulgar writers and the ‘trivial’ moderns, while himself remaining, in theory at least, in the camp of the neo-classicists.

1986 Partisan Rev. Summer 442 His models and mentors are..Balanchine and Stravinsky, those exemplary ‘Neoclassicists’ who reshape older traditions in modernist terms, rather than attempting to reinvent the choreographic wheel.

1993 R. Walser Running with Devil 94 Upon the release of his U.S. debut album in 1984..Malmsteen quickly gained a reputation as the foremost of metal's neoclassicists.