In fairy stories, a sorcerer is a person who performs magic by using the power of evil spirits. = wizard. a man in stories who uses magic and receives help from evil forces wizard
a piece of music by the French composer Paul Dukas (1865-1935), based on a poem by Goethe about a boy who works for a sorcerer (=a man who does magic) and lazily tries to do his work using magic, but everything goes wrong