#musician artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
supertype: #artist__creative_person a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
instance: #Victor_Herbert #Yoko_Ono #Carl_Orff
subtype: #arranger__adapter__transcriber a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
subtype: #orchestrator an arranger who writes for orchestras
subtype: #choirmaster__precentor__cantor the musical director of a choir
subtype: #composer composes music as a profession
subtype: #contrapuntist a composer who specializes in counterpoint
subtype: #psalmist a composer of sacred songs; "David is called The Psalmist because he is believed to be the author of the Book of Psalms
subtype: #songwriter__songster__ballad_maker a composer of words or music for popular songs
instance: #Irving_Berlin__Berlin__Israel_Baline #Hoagland_Howard_Carmichael__Carmichael__Hoagy_Carmichael #George_Michael_Cohan__Cohan__George_M._Cohan #Antoine_Domino__Domino__Fats_Domino #Bob_Dylan__Dylan #Stephen_Collins_Foster__Foster__Stephen_Foster #Woodrow_Wilson_Guthrie__Guthrie__Woody_Guthrie #Buddy_Holly__Holly__Charles_Hardin_Holley #John_Lennon__Lennon #Sir_James_Paul_McCartney__McCartney__Paul_McCartney #Paul_Simon__Simon
instance: #Johann_Sebastian_Bach__Bach #Ludwig_van_Beethoven__Beethoven__van_Beethoven #Louis-Hector_Berlioz__Berlioz__Hector_Berlioz #Leonard_Bernstein__Bernstein #Marc_Blitzstein__Blitzstein #Johannes_Brahms__Brahms #Maria_Luigi_Carlo_Zenobio_Cherubini__Cherubini__Luigi_Cherubini #Frederic_Francois_Chopin__Chopin #Aaron_Copland__Copland #Sir_Noel_Pierce_Coward__Coward__Noel_Coward #Karl_Czerny__Czerny #Claude_Achille_Debussy__Debussy__Claude_Debussey #Frederick_Delius__Delius #Gaetano_Donizetti__Donizetti #Antonin_Dvorak__Dvorak #Sir_Edward_Elgar__Elgar #Georges_Enesco__Enesco__George_Enescu #George_Gershwin__Gershwin #Mikhail_Ivanovich_Glinka__Glinka #Christoph_Willibald_von_Gluck__Gluck #Charles_Francois_Gounod__Gounod #George_Percy_Aldridge_Grainger__Grainger__Percy_Grainger #Edvard_hagerup_Grieg__Grieg__Edvard_Grieg #Jacques_Francois_Fromental_Elie_Halevy__Halevy__Fromental_Halevy #George_Frederick_Handel__Handel__Georg_Friedrich_Handel #William_Christopher_Handy__Handy__W._C._Handy #Franz_Joseph_Haydn__Haydn__Joseph_Haydn #Paul_Hindemith__Hindemith #Arthur_Honegger__Honegger #Engelbert_Humperdinck__Humperdinck #Charles_Edward_Ives__Ives #Scott_Joplin__Joplin #Jerome_David_Kern__Kern__Jerome_Kern #Aram_Ilich_Khachaturian__Khachaturian__Aram_Khachaturian #Leonard_Constant_Lambert__Lambert__Constant_Lambert #Franz_Lehar__Lehar #Franz_Liszt__Liszt #Baron_Lloyd_Webber_of_Sydmonton__Lloyd_Webber__Andrew_Lloyd_Webber #Frederick_Loewe__Loewe #Jean_Baptiste_Lully__Lully #Gustav_Mahler__Mahler #Jules_Emile_Frederic_Massenet__Massenet #Jakob_Ludwig_Felix_Mendelssohn-Bartholdy__Mendelssohn__Felix_Mendelssohn #Gian_Carlo_Menotti__Menotti #Giacomo_Meyerbeer__Meyerbeer__Jakob_Liebmann_Beer #Darius_Milhaud__Milhaud #Claudio_Monteverdi__Monteverdi #Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart__Mozart #Modest_Petrovich_Mussorgsky__Mussorgsky__Moussorgsky__Modest_Mussorgsky__Modest_Moussorgsky__Modest_Petrovich_Moussorgsky #Carl_August_Nielson__Nielson #Jacques_Offenbach__Offenbach #Roy_Orbison__Orbison #Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina__Palestrina #Cole_Albert_Porter__Porter__Cole_Porter #Sergei_Sergeyevich_Prokofiev__Prokofiev #Giacomo_Puccini__Puccini #Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninoff__Rachmaninoff__Sergei_Rachmaninoff__Rachmaninov__Sergei_Rachmaninov__Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninov #Ottorino_Respighi__Respighi #Nikolai_Andreyevich_Rimsky-Korsakov__Rimsky-Korsakov__Rimski-Korsakov__Nikolai_Andreyevich_Rimski-Korsakov #Richard_Rodgers__Rodgers #Sigmund_Romberg__Romberg #Giloacchino_Antonio_Rossini__Rossini #Anton_Grigorevich_Rubinstein__Rubinstein__Anton_Gregor_Rubinstein #Erik_Alfred_Leslie_Satie__Satie__Erik_Satie #Artur_Schnabel__Schnabel #Arnold_Schonberg__Schonberg__Schoenberg__Arnold_Schoenberg #Franz_Peter_Schubert__Schubert__Franz_Schubert #Robert_Alexander_Schumann__Schumann__Robert_Schumann #Alexander_Nikolayevich_Scriabin__Scriabin #Andres_Segovia__Segovia__segovia #Roger_Huntington_Sessions__Sessions__Roger_Sessions #Dmitri_Dmitrievich_Shostakovich__Shostakovich__Dmitri_Shostakovich #Johan_Julius_Christian_Sibelius__Sibelius__Jean_Sibelius #Stephen_Sondheim__Sondheim #John_Philip_Sousa__Sousa__The_March_King #Strauss_the_Elder__Strauss__Johann_Strauss #Strauss_the_Younger__Strauss__Johann_Strauss #Richard_Strauss__Strauss #Igor_Fyodorovich_Stravinsky__Stravinsky__Igor_Stravinsky #Arthur_Seymour_Sullivan__Sullivan__Arthur_Sullivan__Sir_Arthur_Sullivan #Joseph_Deems_Taylor__Taylor__Deems_Taylor #Peter_Ilich_Tchaikovsky__Tchaikovsky__Peter_Tchaikovsky__Pyotr_Tchaikovsky__Pyotr_Ilich_Tchaikovsky #Georg_Philipp_Telemann__Telemann #Edgard_Varese__Varese #Ralph_Vaughan_Williams__Vaughan_Williams #Guiseppe_Fortunino_Francesco_Verdi__Verdi__Giuseppe_Verdi #Antonio_Lucio_Vivaldi__Vivaldi__Antonio_Vivaldi #Wilhelm_Richard_Wagner__Wagner__Richard_Wagner #Sir_William_Turner_Walton__Walton__Sir_William_Walton #Baron_Karl_Maria_Friedrich_Ernst_von_Weber__Weber #Kurt_Weill__Weill #Hugo_Wolf__Wolf
subtype: #music_director__musicdirector__conductor__director the person who leads a musical group
subtype: #bandleader the leader of a dance band
instance: #Benjamin_David_Goodman__Goodman__goodman__Benny_Goodman__the_King_of_Swing #Woodrow_Charles_Herman__Herman__Woody_Herman #Alton_Glenn_Miller__Miller__Glenn_Miller
subtype: #bandmaster the conductor of a band
instance: #John_Philip_Sousa__Sousa__The_March_King
subtype: #drum_major the leader of a marching band or drum corps
subtype: #drum_majorette a female drum major
instance: #Leonard_Bernstein__Bernstein #Arthur_Fiedler__Fiedler #Sergei_Aleksandrovich_Koussevitzky__Koussevitzky__Serge_Koussevitzky #Leonard_Constant_Lambert__Lambert__Constant_Lambert #Eugene_Ormandy__Ormandy #Seiji_Ozawa__Ozawa #Leopold_Antoni_Stanislaw_Stokowski__Stokowski__Leopold_Stokowski #George_Szell__Szell #Arturo_Toscanini__Toscanini #Bruno_Walter__Walter #Sir_Henry_Joseph_Wood__Wood__Sir_Henry_Wood
subtype: #virtuoso a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry
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