a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
See also maestro di cappella
Word origin
from German, from Kapelle chapel + Meistermaster
Examples of 'capellmeister' in a sentence
capellmeister
He also composed many ambitious works, which rise above the capellmeister average.
W. S. B. Mathews A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present (1891). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)