Pierre Gavinies claims attention both as an executant and composer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

It required only that its executant should be without bowels of compassion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

MOZART was carefully trained by his father, and at the age of four was a finished executant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference

By the faint stress laid on the foreign tone, the listener is assured that the executant is not deviating from the true pitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style in Singing] Reference

Otherwise, what to the executant would appear as original might, to correct taste and judgment, appear ridiculous and extravagant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style in Singing] Reference

Click-click went the needles; the youthful fingers moved with incredible deftness and celerity, and line after line was added by each executant to her already enormous pile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914] Reference

Cadenzas are usually left to the improvisation of the performer, but are sometimes written in full by the composer, or by some famous executant, as in the cadenza in Brahms's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

As an executant also the young artist deserves praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

The good executant must, above all, be a good listener.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference

As an executant Spohr stands among the greatest of all time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday]

"One is always a poor executant of conceptions not one's own.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry] Reference

Superintendent of Supliminal Enchineering; Clara is te executant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference

The hut recognized a master's touch, for Doggie was a fine executant musician.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rough Road] Reference

He was rather a poor executant; but he possessed a thorough knowledge of music.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Nobleman's Nest] Reference

Ahm setting aside yon executant nature of today's business and making it injunctive.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He never became a splendid executant, like Bach and Handel before him, and Mozart and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haydn] Reference

Paganini (1784-1840), perhaps the most remarkable executant upon the violin who has ever appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

His compositions, though good, are not numerous, but he is said to have been a wonderful executant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old St. Paul's Cathedral] Reference

Mrs. Stanton is a fine writer, but a poor executant; Miss Anthony is a thorough manager, but a poor writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

He played on his instrument, indeed, as he played on Guy -- with the consummate art of a skilful executant.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Bred in the Bone] Reference

But I was never better than a fifth-rate executant; I had never gone in for that; my "lay" was composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Roses] Reference

She must woo, she saw; dare she trail this steel-armed lord of battles, this grim executant, this trumpet of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Lovers] Reference

For the best art, as well as the soundest technique, there should always be in the executant enough and to spare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference

And many facts in the history of his career as an executant would seem to confirm the correctness of such a feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

Ne voila - t-il pas encore Hercule dans Scythie, oil ncjus rc - trouvons, toutes les originesy executant fes exploits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis] Reference

A musical composer's notes, we know, are not themselves till the fit executant comes, who can put all they may be into them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference

He adores verse, for its own sake, as a brilliant executant adores his violin; he has an excellent contempt for prose, as an inferior form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference

When Pachmann plays Chopin the music sings itself, as if without the intervention of an executant, of one who stands between the music and our hearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference

On wet days there was art needlework, for which Miss Wendover had what artists would call a great deal of feeling, without being very skilful as an executant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Calf] Reference

Instruments which do not require additional players, but are taken over by one or the other executant in place of his usual instrument, are enclosed in brackets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of orchestration] Reference

Lady Carlisle fumbles blindly with the dramatic issues without essentially affecting them; Polyxena furthers them with loyal counsel, but is not their main executant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning] Reference

Perhaps the soul of the great musician, so gloriously known to Europe, and the soul of this unknown executant had met in the intuitive apprehension of the same poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duchesse De Langeais] Reference

The fine executant is common enough now-a-days, but the fine stylist as rare as ever. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.] Reference

"Mrs. Stanton is a fine writer, but a poor executant; Miss Anthony is a thorough manager, but a poor writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference