contrapuntist

English

Etymology

From Italian contrappuntista.

Noun

contrapuntist (plural contrapuntists)

1. (music) One skilled in counterpoint.
   • a. 1797, William Mason, Essays on Church Music:

     Now Counterpoint is certainly so much an Art , that to be , what they call , a learned Contrapuntist , is with Harmonists a title of no small excellence

References

“contrapuntist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.