polymath

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Later this month, the world premiere of Kurtag's second opera "Die Stechardin" about the 18th-century love story of a German polymath and a flower girl will cap the centenary of his birth.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Legxacy is a mercurial figure – a musical polymath, defiantly original, who has largely stopped speaking in public, partly due to the tragic backstory behind his latest mixtape.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

It’s hardly surprising that there’s a strong market for books and articles claiming to demystify the painting’s creator, even though not much is definitively known about the Italian polymath.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Tench is a polymath, a cross-genre equal-opportunity appreciator of great music.

From Salon • May 27, 2025

Something of a polymath, he was a Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford, physician to Edward VI and to Queen Mary, and sometime general surveyor of mines and money for the Crown.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin