copyist
Example Sentences
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To support himself in New York, he served as an assistant and copyist for the composer and critic Virgil Thomson, who paid the young man $20 a week and gave him lessons in orchestration.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022
A woman develops a special bond with composer Ludwig van Beethoven while working as his copyist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019
Pierre loses his fortune and becomes a writer; Isabel becomes his diligent copyist.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019
In February and March this year, he spent one day a week in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s copyist program, creating interpretation of masterpieces with his easel set up in galleries.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2017
I must beg you to forgive the many corrections in what you have received; my old copyist cannot see, and the younger must first be trained; but at least the whole is free from errors.
From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler
