A virtuoso is an individual who possesses outstanding talent and technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.
Franz Liszt was one of the first musicians to be called a virtuoso.
Jimi Hendrix is often regarded as a modern virtuoso - both a skilled musician and performer.
Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt was a German composer and virtuoso pianist.
Portrait of Adolf von Henselt, with scrap of music
Portrait of Adolf Henselt, composer (1814-1889), before 1889. Archivio Storico Ricordi.
Statue of Henselt in his hometown of Schwabach