violistn.
/ˈvʌɪəlɪst/, U.S. /ˈvaɪələst/ A player on the viol or the viola. (Also as the title of a book.)
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c1670 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 274 He was a violinist, and the two former violists.
a1699 B. Hely (title) The compleat Violist, or An Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Bass Viol.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2069 Upon these, a Sonata was perform'd by those two most eminent Violists.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths I. 13 He outdid all his teachers and became one of the neatest violists of his time.
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 266 The Minstrels..were at all times the best Violists of their age.
1894 Daily News 5 Feb. 5/3 A large viol, so large that a boy was placed inside to sing the air while the violist played the bass.
1977 Gramophone Nov. 860/2 I prefer some details of phrasing and the greater warmth of the old Tchaikovsky Quartet which has Rudolf Barshai as violist.
1978 Oxf. Times 3 Feb. 14 The splendid viola part reminds one of the fact that the composer was a violist.
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