Definitions
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- noun music A leader or
conductor of a musical group such as anorchestra . - noun music A term used during the
baroque andclassical period for the person in charge of music at a noblecourt .
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Examples
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The last three were connected because a Swedish kapellmeister named Gustav Düben copied their music into a manuscript collection now at the Uppsala University Library.
Review: Helsinki Baroque Orchestra at Library of Congress Charles T. Downey 2010
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Nevertheless, most of Caldara's huge output remains unexplored, including the 60-odd dramatic works that he composed during his time in Vienna as vice-kapellmeister to the Hapsburg court of Charles VI from 1716 until the end of his life.
Caldara in Vienna – review Andrew Clements 2010
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It is in the Schellinggasse and justifies itself by the possession of a very fine orchestra whose _militär-kapellmeister_ knows naught but inebriate _tanzmusik_.
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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And a great band, swung into the measures by a firm-bellied _kapellmeister_ as gorgeous in his pounds of gold braid as a peafowl, sets sail into
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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For a time he was a kind of assistant _kapellmeister_ to Haydn, and indeed many at that time thought his works were quite on a par with those of the great master, Beethoven.
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After travelling for some time, Van der Stucken was appointed kapellmeister at the
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Buelow was appointed kapellmeister of the Court Theatre; reforms, peculiarly disagreeable to those reformed, were set on foot; and singers, players, regisseurs, who had anticipated sleeping away their existence in the good old fashion, were violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear.
Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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He was an obscure German kapellmeister, and had never been conductor in a theatre which did not suffer bankruptcy or where something worse did not occur.
Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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He was appointed Court kapellmeister, and there he remained until 1849.
Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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Wagner did not wish to be kapellmeister -- on the contrary, wished most vigorously not to be kapellmeister.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891
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