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Dilettant

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Dil`et`tant´
a.1.Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation.
n.1.A dilettante.
Though few art lovers can be connoisseurs, many are dilettants.
- Fairholt.


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132) For Schiefler see Indina Woesthoff, "Der gluckliche Mensch": Gustav Schiefler (1857-1935): Sammler, Dilettant und Kunstfreund (Hamburg, 1996).
Snook-Luther's translation of Der musikalische Dilettant of 1773, English-speaking readers are now afforded a chance to observe Daube's strategies for the teaching of musical composition at first hand.
The biographies in volume 1 begin with Xavier Maria de Munibe, Conde de Penaflorida (1729--1785), "ein gebildeter Dilettant, der selbst spielte und sogar Komponist [war]," according to Jose Antonio de Donostia (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart [Kassel: Barenreiter, 1949--86
 
 
 
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