copyist

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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

Either way, I thought it was a work of beauty and genius, especially after getting to study the music up close as I proofread parts of the score for the show’s copyist.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019

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

And when reduced to writing, some gentleman would write by the side of the passage his idea of it, and the next copyist would put that in as a part of the text.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green