Editing Kapellmeister (section)

==Similar terms and equivalents==
Variant spellings ''capellmeister'' and ''capelle'', to refer to the orchestra or choir,<ref>{{cite book |last=Galkin |first=Elliott W. |author-link=Elliott Galkin |title=A history of orchestral conducting: in theory and practice |year=1988 |publisher=Pendragon Press |isbn=978-0-918728-47-0 |page=218 }}</ref> are sometimes encountered in English language works about composers who held the title.<ref>{{cite book|last=Siblin|first=Eric|author-link=Eric Siblin|title=The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Euf2Loch7YcC&pg=PA61|access-date=15 January 2012|date=4 January 2011|publisher=Grove Press|isbn=978-0-8021-4524-6|pages=61, et seq}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Wolff |first=Christoph|author-link=Christoph Wolff|title=Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician |url=https://archive.org/details/johannsebastianb00wolf |url-access=registration |year=2000 |publisher=W. W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-32256-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/johannsebastianb00wolf/page/24 24], et seq}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Terry|first=Charles Sanford|author-link=Charles Sanford Terry (historian)|title=Bach: A Biography|date=April 2003|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|isbn=978-0-7661-4677-8|pages=11, et seq}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Jullien|first=Adolphe|title=Richard Wagner: His Life and Works|url=https://archive.org/details/richardwagnerhi01hallgoog|year=1892|publisher=J. B. Millet|pages=[https://archive.org/details/richardwagnerhi01hallgoog/page/n124 67], et al}}</ref>

The word {{lang|de|Hofkapellmeister}} specified that the Kapellmeister worked at a nobleman's court ({{lang|de|Hof}}); a {{lang|de|Konzertmeister}} held a somewhat less senior position.<ref>Peter Terrell, ed. ''Collins German–English, English–German Dictionary.'' 2nd edition, pp. 356, 405.</ref>

Equivalent positions existed in other European countries and were referred to with equivalent names. In Finnish ''kapellimestari'' is still the primary word used of conductors.