copyist

Example Sentences

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A woman develops a special bond with composer Ludwig van Beethoven while working as his copyist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019

“Halloo old John, I wrote this letter,” copyist Harriet Straub wrote in the margin of one.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2018

Paderni was a painter and copyist from Rome, who had come to Herculaneum to reproduce some of the villa’s wall paintings.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015

Her father was a civil engineer, her mother a music copyist.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2014

It was impossible to write all this at once; and, had we hurried such a copyist, there would have been errors upon errors.

From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton