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Definition of virtuoso in English: virtuosonounPlural virtuosi, Plural virtuosos ˌvəːtʃʊˈəʊzəʊˌvəːtʃʊˈəʊsəʊˌvərtʃəˈwoʊsoʊ 1A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit. a celebrated clarinet virtuoso as modifier virtuoso guitar playing Example sentencesExamples - He's an extraordinary fiddle player with a virtuoso technique married to musical mind that won't take anything for granted.
- All this music needs is a virtuoso with technique to burn and a grand array of tonal colors.
- The musicians from the Laureate trio staged a virtuoso performance at a concert marking the launching of their new album on Monday.
- Johan becomes a virtuoso of classical music, a driving force who cannot be ignored.
- It is not enough to see the painting as a virtuoso manipulation of historical styles.
- This virtuoso short story collection is emotionally uncompromising and stylistically daring.
- Now the virtuoso guitarist/composer's classical roots are calling him back.
- It also excludes music for virtuoso display in the large concert hall, even though only a few instruments may be involved.
- However, there are so few viola concerti - especially by major composers - that virtuosi seemed driven to perform it anyway.
- The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
- Masters like Sorolla, Bouguereau, Zorn and Repin were painting virtuosos.
- Is it a study, which is unusual for copper, or an exercise in virtuoso brushwork, for which it seems unusually small?
- The title makes obvious reference to basketball, a sport of virtuoso movement.
- Puritan writers in New England were virtuosos of the genre.
- He joins the illustrious ranks of blind virtuosos, alongside renowned organists and other musicians who have triumphed against physical handicap.
- Walker began his musical career as a virtuoso pianist, with composing and teaching work coming later.
- The work is a sophisticated, synoptic genre piece, its composition and bravura brushwork invoking forerunners from flashy late Mannerists to late Baroque virtuosos such as Crespi or Piazzetta.
- Something else they share is that neither is recognised as a virtuoso showpiece for the pianist.
- Such virtuoso, highly finished bronze groups can be seen as the last gasp of the great tradition of Florentine art.
- With them, the concerto moves from the virtuoso star turn to distinguished collaboration.
Synonyms genius, expert, master, master hand, artist, maestro, prodigy, marvel, adept, past master, specialist, skilled person, professional, doyen, authority, veteran star, champion German wunderkind informal hotshot, wizard, wiz, whizz, whizz-kid, alpha geek, ninja, buff, pro, ace, something else, something to shout about, something to write home about British informal dab hand North American informal maven, crackerjack rare proficient skilful, expert, accomplished, masterly, master, consummate, proficient, talented, gifted, adept, adroit, dexterous, deft, able, good, competent, capable, efficient, experienced, professional, polished, well versed, smart, clever, artful, impressive, outstanding, exceptional, exceptionally good, magnificent, supreme, first-rate, first-class, fine, brilliant, excellent, dazzling, bravura informal superb, out of this world, stellar, mean, ace, crack, A1, genius North American badass vulgar slang shit-hot 2A person with a special knowledge of or interest in works of art or curios. Example sentencesExamples - A wonderfully fluent technician, who moved in virtuosi circles, Lely recorded the worlds of politics and fashion alike, and sometimes revealed undoubted powers of character penetration.
- In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were among the natural specimens collected by virtuosi, or amateur scientists, who kept their collections in specialized cabinets of curiosity.
- Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Bourgeois collectors began to play a part, and Mancini's treatise Considerazioni sulla pittura, addressed to the gentleman amateur, advised virtuosi on how to form a collection of paintings.
- To be sure, the book has a good deal to say about how the curious - virtuosi, novelists, journalists, impertinent women, collectors, connoisseurs, and so on - were represented.
Origin Early 17th century: from Italian, literally 'learned, skilful', from late Latin virtuosus (see virtuous). Rhymes arioso, bozo, Gozo, mafioso Definition of virtuoso in US English: virtuosonounˌvərCHəˈwōsōˌvərtʃəˈwoʊsoʊ 1A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit. a celebrated clarinet virtuoso as modifier virtuoso guitar playing Example sentencesExamples - All this music needs is a virtuoso with technique to burn and a grand array of tonal colors.
- Puritan writers in New England were virtuosos of the genre.
- He's an extraordinary fiddle player with a virtuoso technique married to musical mind that won't take anything for granted.
- It also excludes music for virtuoso display in the large concert hall, even though only a few instruments may be involved.
- Now the virtuoso guitarist/composer's classical roots are calling him back.
- The work is a sophisticated, synoptic genre piece, its composition and bravura brushwork invoking forerunners from flashy late Mannerists to late Baroque virtuosos such as Crespi or Piazzetta.
- Something else they share is that neither is recognised as a virtuoso showpiece for the pianist.
- Such virtuoso, highly finished bronze groups can be seen as the last gasp of the great tradition of Florentine art.
- However, there are so few viola concerti - especially by major composers - that virtuosi seemed driven to perform it anyway.
- He joins the illustrious ranks of blind virtuosos, alongside renowned organists and other musicians who have triumphed against physical handicap.
- Walker began his musical career as a virtuoso pianist, with composing and teaching work coming later.
- It is not enough to see the painting as a virtuoso manipulation of historical styles.
- With them, the concerto moves from the virtuoso star turn to distinguished collaboration.
- Masters like Sorolla, Bouguereau, Zorn and Repin were painting virtuosos.
- Johan becomes a virtuoso of classical music, a driving force who cannot be ignored.
- The title makes obvious reference to basketball, a sport of virtuoso movement.
- The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
- Is it a study, which is unusual for copper, or an exercise in virtuoso brushwork, for which it seems unusually small?
- The musicians from the Laureate trio staged a virtuoso performance at a concert marking the launching of their new album on Monday.
- This virtuoso short story collection is emotionally uncompromising and stylistically daring.
Synonyms genius, expert, master, master hand, artist, maestro, prodigy, marvel, adept, past master, specialist, skilled person, professional, doyen, authority, veteran skilful, expert, accomplished, masterly, master, consummate, proficient, talented, gifted, adept, adroit, dexterous, deft, able, good, competent, capable, efficient, experienced, professional, polished, well versed, smart, clever, artful, impressive, outstanding, exceptional, exceptionally good, magnificent, supreme, first-rate, first-class, fine, brilliant, excellent, dazzling, bravura - 1.1 A person with a special knowledge of or interest in works of art or curios.
Example sentencesExamples - In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were among the natural specimens collected by virtuosi, or amateur scientists, who kept their collections in specialized cabinets of curiosity.
- Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- A wonderfully fluent technician, who moved in virtuosi circles, Lely recorded the worlds of politics and fashion alike, and sometimes revealed undoubted powers of character penetration.
- Bourgeois collectors began to play a part, and Mancini's treatise Considerazioni sulla pittura, addressed to the gentleman amateur, advised virtuosi on how to form a collection of paintings.
- To be sure, the book has a good deal to say about how the curious - virtuosi, novelists, journalists, impertinent women, collectors, connoisseurs, and so on - were represented.
Origin Early 17th century: from Italian, literally ‘learned, skillful’, from late Latin virtuosus (see virtuous). |