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

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

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

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2014

Cler′ical, pertaining to a clerk or copyist, as in 'clerical error.'—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various