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Maestro (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ253346 ↗
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Maestro, meaning "master" or "teacher" in Italian, is a term of respect used particularly in the international music world.

Maestro(s) may also refer to:

Books

The Maestro, a novel by Tim Wynne-Jones

Maestro (character), a version of the Hulk from an alternate future in Marvel Comics

Maestro (manga), a manga series by Akira Sasō

Maestro (novel), a novel by Peter Goldsworthy

Brand names

Austin Maestro, a car built by Austin-Rover

Gibson Maestro, the most popular of several Gibson Vibrola vibrato mechanisms for guitar

Maestro, a brand of gastric electrical stimulator

Maestro (airline), a Canadian charter airline

Maestro (debit card), a debit card operated by MasterCard

Maestro (service), an American live-streaming platform

Maestro (software), a software application used by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Maestro (TV channel), a Georgian TV channel

Maestro I, a software-hardware combination considered to be the world's first integrated development environment (IDE) for software

Maestro PMS, a software product from Northwind Canada Inc.

Maestro Talent and Management, a defunct Malaysian company owned by Astro

Film and television

Maestros (film), a 2000 Spanish comedy film

Maestro (2003 film), an American documentary

Maestro (2005 film), a Hungarian animated film

Maestro (2014 film), a French film

Maestro! (2015 film), a Japanese film

The Maestro (2018 film), an American film

Maestro (2021 film), an Indian film

Maestro (2023 film), an American biographical film about Leonard Bernstein

Maestro (British TV series), a 2008 BBC reality TV show

"The Maestro" (Seinfeld), a 1995 episode of the TV show Seinfeld

Music

"Maestro", makers of the effect unit the Echoplex

"Maestro", a quarterly magazine about Ennio Morricone

Maestro (producer), producer of contemporary pop and hip-hop music

Maestro Fresh Wes, Canadian rapper

Maestro Harrell, American rapper

Travis "Maestro" Meeks, singer and guitarist for the band Days of the New

Maestro di cappella, literally "chapel-master"

Albums and EPs

The Maestro (Horace Parlan album), a 1979 album by Horace Parlan

The Maestro (Cedar Walton album), a 1981 album by Cedar Walton featuring Abbey Lincoln

Maestro (Kaizers Orchestra album) (2005), and the title song

Maestro (Taj Mahal album)

Maestro (Moacir Santos album)

Maestro (EP), 2005 EP by Kaizers Orchestra

Maestros (album) by Orquesta El Arranque

Songs

"Maestro" (Alla Pugacheva song), 1981

"Maestro" (Seventeen song), 2024

"Maestro", from Sarah Close's Caught Up

"The Maestro", from Beastie Boys' album Check Your Head

"The Maestro", from Caro Emerald's album The Shocking Miss Emerald, 2013

People

Maestro (footballer) (António Simão Muanza), Angolan footballer

The Maestro (wrestler), a professional wrestler named Robert Kellum in real life

Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer and singer

Savior (gamer), real name Ma Jae-yoon, StarCraft player known as "The Maestro"

Video games

Maestro (2004 video game), a MusicVR game by Mike Oldfield

Maestro (2024 video game), a virtual reality game by Double Jack

Other uses

Maestro, a character in the Zatch Bell!

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