0 a man who is very skilled at playing or conducting (= directing the performance of) music
1 a person who is very skilled at conducting (= directing the performance of music) or writing music
There is not too much of that here, as quote after quote is uncritically used to explain the motives of the maestro and his music.
The eight were the two supervisors (maestros), the vigilante and the three machinists.
The priest's intellectual influence would be usurped by the maestro, a ' cultural missionary ' who would preach the new values - work, patriotism, unity - on which national progress depended.
The bakery owners had the support of most maestros, while the vast pool of unemployed labour in the city meant that most workers were easily replaceable.
Beeching took over, the deficit went up, so we can see that factors are at work which are beyond the control of even that maestro.
By the standards of what we heard later, it was the performance of a maestro.
By 1817, he had become the city's "maestro concertatore" (music director).
An amusing monodrama for a bass-baritone, the opera portrays a pompous maestro rehearsing an orchestra, often imitating the sound of the instruments.