operatist

noun

operatist

noun

1

A composer of opera.

Minor composers of the time wrote music for the mandolin; later operatists such as Handel, Mozart, and Verdi scored occasional passages for the instrument when atmospheric touches were needed.1998, Paul Kingsbury, The Encyclopedia of Country Music:

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