Also 8 fughist, 9 fugueist. [f. FUGUE sb. + -IST.] A composer of fugues.

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1789.  Burney, Hist. Mus., III. ii. 110. Handel was perhaps the only great Fughist exempt from pedantry.

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1829.  Lamb, Lett. (1888), II. 233.

        Dear Fugueist,
  or hear’st thou rather
      Contrapuntist?

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1841.  H. F. Chorley, Mus. & Mann. (1844), III. 246. Classical preluders and steady fuguists will come in time.

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