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MUSIC DIRECTOR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The person who leads a musical group

Synonyms:

conductor; director; music director

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("music director" is a kind of...):

musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "music director"):

bandleader (the leader of a dance band)

bandmaster (the conductor of a band)

drum major (the leader of a marching band or drum corps)

drum majorette; majorette (a female drum major)

Instance hyponyms:

Sir Henry Joseph Wood; Sir Henry Wood; Wood (English conductor (1869-1944))

Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber; Carl Maria von Weber; Weber (German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826))

Bruno Walter; Walter (German conductor (1876-1962))

Arturo Toscanini; Toscanini (Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957))

George Szell; Szell (United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970))

Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski; Leopold Stokowski; Stokowski (United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977))

Ozawa; Seiji Ozawa (United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935))

Eugene Ormandy; Ormandy (United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985))

Gustav Mahler; Mahler (Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911))

Constant Lambert; Lambert; Leonard Constant Lambert (English composer and conductor (1905-1951))

Koussevitzky; Serge Koussevitzky; Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky (United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951))

Hindemith; Paul Hindemith (German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963))

Arthur Fiedler; Fiedler (popular United States conductor (1894-1979))

Benjamin Britten; Britten; Edward Benjamin Britten; Lord Britten of Aldeburgh (major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976))

Bernstein; Leonard Bernstein (United States conductor and composer (1918-1990))

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