maestropiece

From maestro +‎ piece, after masterpiece, a piecewise doublet.

maestropiece (plural maestropieces)

1. (chiefly humorous, rare) An outstanding work of a maestro.
   • 1901 February 23, “Rocco Threw the Brick, but He Will Never Throw Another”, in The Bayonne Herald and Greenville Register, 34th year, number 2033, Bayonne, N.J., →OCLC, page 4, column 4:

     On da Av’noo D near Ten street Peno wida all heesa granda, magnifique muscle was grind out Signor Tomaso Mascagni’s maestropiece, ‘Cavallierre Rusticana,’ when long coma half doz verra bad Americano kid wid da snowball.

   • 1938 March 4, “Scene and Unseen”, in The San Francisco News, volume 36, number 54, San Francisco, Calif., →OCLC, page 12, columns 5–6:

     As he made the last stroke, with an artist’s flourish, he turned to his colleague (who has been industriously keeping his track to the grindstone all this time)[,] tapped him on the shoulder and displayed the single, unbroken piece of peeling as a maestro would unveil his maestro[-]piece.

   • 1939 April 11, Betty Carr, “Crooners’ Love”, in Liverpool Daily Post, number 26,128, Liverpool, Lancashire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 6:

     Perhaps it was merely ’flu delirium that made me think of the same fellow as the hero of the next song, that great maestropiece “Music, maestro, please”—the sort of thing, perhaps, that in old music-hall days would have been allotted to that terrible person the “descriptive vocalist.”

   • 1965, Dwight Macdonald, “Part Six: Trims and Clips”, in Dwight Macdonald on Movies, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, published 1969, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 461:

     Howth to wake into silverscreaming cinequanonsense the doublin mage’s perplixacated maestropiece? To lustify that seemworld? Obliviously by giving a fairful earing to the joyceous blooms of vherbal slanguage mythed up with etymologicalities—and accompliced by flimflamfilm eyeings as well. In sport, Mary Ellen Bute’s 97 minutes of vagariations on seems from Finnegans Wake is both punny and movieing.

   • 1983 July 28, Pete McMartin, “Modern violins still 2nd fiddle to Stradivari’s maestropieces”, in The Sun, volume 96, number 226, Vancouver, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B1, column 1
   • 1986 July, “Become a famous composer and appear in ZZAP!”, in Roger Kean, editor, ZZAP! 64, number 15, Ludlow, Shropshire: Newsfield, →OCLC, page 89, column 4:

     Make sure your music software is stand-alone, too (ie, it doesn’t have to be loaded into a utility—we don’t want to have to mess around with bits of wire or umpteen different programs just to hear your maestropiece).

   • 1989 summer, Mike Rubin, “One Nation Under a Groove”, in Motorbooty, number 4, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Clownskull Graphics, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [53], column 1:

     Although song lengths are beginning to crawl onto the tedious side, and the album as a whole is not the complete maestropiece that some folks have pegged it as, I’d still be plenty happy to pledge my groovallegiance (promising to funk, the whole funk, and nothing but the funk) and serve as a funky flunky in the U. F. of F.’s State Department any ol’ time.

   • 1998 December 30, Ron Clark, “tester”, in uk.rec.sheds‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 3 January 2026:

     In this highly ambitious work Harris has stripped the conceptual matrix of all extraneous plot, characterisation and conclusion to bring us a maestropiece of aconsonant disavowel and non-alliterative desymbolisation.