virtuoso

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Related topics: Performing, Music

APsomeone who is a very skilful performer, especially in music 〔尤指音乐上的〕艺术大师，大演奏家

violin virtuoso Vanessa Mae

小提琴大师陈美

► see thesaurus at expert, skilful

—virtuoso adjectiveadj [only before noun]

a virtuoso performance

技艺精湛的表演

a virtuoso pianist

造诣很深的钢琴大师

Examples from the Corpus

virtuoso• The solo dulcimer player, Eugene Gladkov, is clearly a virtuoso of the first order.• Beckerhoff is a virtuoso trumpeter with an excellent range and sound.• Baryshnikov is probably the most dazzling virtuoso we have seen.• Political virtuoso that he is, Haider played skillfully on popular fears over these issues.• At this stage, yet another set of variations in the cuckoo's virtuoso repertoire of adaptations comes into play.• This is a shame in a book so rich in ideas and so virtuoso in its handling of specialist terminology.• This virtuoso decorative carving is a typical feature of late Gothic architecture in Bohemia.• Made me indignant in the same way virtuoso bureaucratic behavior still provokes me.

virtuoso performance• Minton's virtuoso performances with pencil or pen and ink commended him as a teacher.• The party of astonished villagers raised a spontaneous cheer at this virtuoso performance.

Origin virtuoso

(1600-1700) Italian virtuoso “virtuous, skilled”, from Latin virtus; → VIRTUE

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