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

It’s like an artist being a copyist at a museum; you learn by emulating the strokes of others.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2020

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

He is no slavish copyist, however, of those authorities, nor of any others, however eminent.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various