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Brahms, the youthful virtuoso gave most satisfactory proofs of advancement in his artistic career.
You don't imagine that because one is a successful composer he must be a brilliant virtuoso.
There are also to be recorded some public and semi-public appearances of Chopin as a virtuoso.
Franz Liszt's career as a traveling virtuoso commenced in 1837, and lasted for twelve years.
The prince performed the operation, and repeated it three times, in presence of the virtuoso.
Charles the First was a great virtuoso, and delighted particularly in sculpture and painting.
If the singer or the virtuoso attempts to guide his execution by reflection he remains silent.
She remembered taking him to a concert, where a famous virtuoso had entranced a large audience.
They were not virtuosos, bent on exhibiting the heights to which individual skill can attain.
Communicate, if you please, some of these particulars that you think will amuse me as a virtuoso.
I realized, more than ever, how the musician had always been the foundation of the virtuoso.
In him were united the accomplishments of the great virtuoso and the gifts of the composer.
Never, before or since, from professional or private virtuoso, have I heard such playing as that.
Albert Doppler's foreign reputation is primarily due to his extensive concert tours as a flute virtuoso.
He naturally possessed also valuable artistic qualities, but an apparently virtuoso tendency ever after clung to him.
These students all expect to become fine performers even though they may not aim to become virtuosos.
He is not only a very great virtuoso and musician, but also a veritable sovereign of music.
It was at this date that he took lessons on the latter instrument from "a celebrated virtuoso."
He was almost entirely self-taught and, notwithstanding, reached a high degree as a virtuoso on the Violoncello.
Mozart's works for wind instruments are distinguished by delicacy of treatment apart from virtuoso-like effects.
Surprised at what he heard, the composer inquired the name of the virtuoso he had just heard.
Often during his career as a virtuoso he gave freely of the proceeds of his concerts to charity.
His development as a virtuoso began in 1831, when Paganini, the famous violinist, first went to Paris.
In the seventeenth century, and in the eighteenth as well, the composer and the virtuoso were one.
Whiting has devoted more of his interest to his career as virtuoso on the organ than to composition.
And invent difficulties for the sake of triumphantly resolving them, becoming a virtuoso rather than a creator.
This is probably very scarce, and may be found only in the cabinet of some distant virtuoso.
Through him, the future virtuoso was enabled to gain an excellent idea of the beautiful literature of chamber music.
This virtuoso played in the orchestra at the Winter Garden, and occupied the bedroom next to Fred's.
Besides, I can assure you that no one spoils a fine instrument quicker than one of your great virtuosos.
He became famous there, more on account of his virtuoso powers on the keyboard than of those of composer.
On these occasions he distinguished himself as an organ virtuoso and often presented his own vocal compositions.
He was a virtuoso of a high order, and his style exercised considerable influence over that of Bach.
It is true that I shall never be able to equal you, but then you are the only genuine virtuoso.
She ultimately married the celebrated virtuoso Sir William Hamilton, who was the English Ambassador at Naples.
And it was undoubtedly the influence of the great virtuoso which turned the scale in his favor.
The decorations which are made upon primitive pottery exhibit the excess vitality and skill of the virtuoso.
His glance turned to the virtuoso, while it involuntarily remained fixed on his not sufficiently clean hands.
He is not perhaps a musical virtuoso, but there can be no question about his ability as a juggler.
For the virtuoso discovers the utmost capabilities of his instrument and thereby widens the field of composition.
Paderewski, the famous piano virtuoso, is so well known that particulars are, perhaps, not necessary in his case.
He came then, this young virtuoso, and presented himself at the Conservatoire, asking to enter as a pupil.
By continually occupying ourselves with a certain thing, we take a liking for it and often become virtuosos.
With all the salons in the metropolis open to him, his success as a virtuoso was, therefore, certain.
The virtuoso pointed out to me a crystalline stone which hung by a gold chain against the wall.
Franz made wonderful progress, both in this new line of study, and in becoming known as a piano virtuoso.
Yet Clara is more of a virtuoso, and gives almost more significance to his compositions than he does himself.
I do not propose them to you as virtuosos and artists; they have not the talents of your neighbor.
He is not only a virtuoso of the first rank, but also an excellent interpreter of classical chamber music.
We have here an incessant confusion of methods, a complete emancipation of the virtuoso who listens only to his fancy.
His hair was worn like a violin virtuoso's, and his hands were white, delicate, and well cared for.
Rich rhymes satisfied or surprised the ear, and the poet sometimes suffered through his curiosity as a virtuoso.
In the art of Fragonard, that great virtuoso of the brush, the influence of Rubens becomes absolutely paramount.
Cellini uses the word 'virtuoso' in many senses, but always more with reference to intellectual than moral qualities.
He was a very original virtuoso, and the first who introduced extremely difficult violin passages into his compositions.
The worthy virtuoso, as he was, met us at the door, and escorted us upstairs to see his treasures.
In vain did Madame Giraud bustle about to find a singer of either sex; every virtuoso had some reason for refusing.
It gave me great satisfaction to hear that I was considered far enough advanced to appear in public as a virtuoso.
He proposed that Chopin should study three years with him, and he would then become a great virtuoso.
We see and hear a great many virtuosos, old and young, with and without talent, renowned and obscure.
This dance form, since the death of the great composer, has been chiefly developed on the virtuoso side.
His brilliant playing had already created a sensation wherever he appeared, and he gave promise of being a virtuoso.
"You see," said the virtuoso rising, "that Liszt can be Chopin when he likes; but could Chopin be Liszt?"
Paderewski has not taught, as a rule, since his great triumphs as a virtuoso, but he has made exceptions.
It takes on the color of any composer's ideas, and submits like a slave to the whims of any virtuoso.
Nothing of the kind has ever been done, and it seems to me that the idea might tempt a virtuoso.
Then a charming figure in a short, dark blue dress rushes down four, five steps at a time to the virtuoso.
Another pianist who has followed the lure of composition; but a great virtuoso, a great interpreter of the classics.
It would, perhaps, be more correct to put it in the past tense, as a new type of virtuoso has arisen.
As a piano virtuoso, a teacher, a conductor and an editor of musical works, he was a marked educational factor in music.
Paganini was one of the latter-day examples of the virtuoso and the composer represented by one and the same person.
Pepys' connection with literature is that rather of a virtuoso than of a student in the strict sense of the term.
Boyle, of course, did not have either degree, but he did have a status as the leading virtuoso of his day.
Have patience, sacrifice the virtuoso to the composer in you, and you will see what a splendid reward you will reap!
I then took my leave of this virtuoso, and returned to my chamber, meditating on the various occupations of rational creatures.
From these concerts he cleared six hundred dollars, not a small sum in those days for an unknown virtuoso.
I have often heard it said that the marvelous technique of Paganini is to-day the technical equipment of all violin virtuosos.
The secret, however, of Ernst's success, whether as a composer or a virtuoso, lay in his expressive power and accent.
It is interesting to observe how several very different types of individuals may succeed in winning public favor as virtuosos.
Imagine a great virtuoso, one of the famous musicians of our land, being in a department store at two hours before midnight!
He was a virtuoso, and he has even played in London, but later in life he gave up this career for composition.
The works of this virtuoso are largely made up of transcriptions and arrangements, but contain some excellent compositions of her own.
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public.
Schumann's idea of her husband's music was right, then Paderewski is apt to treat him too much as a virtuoso composer.
At this period of his life art was to him no more than a fine instrument upon which he played like a virtuoso.
It is, of course, a highly valuable adjunct to a genuine musical genius like a Mozart or a Schubert and to a genuine virtuoso.
Of the many excellent virtuosos on stringed and wind- instruments only a few of the most distinguished shall be mentioned.
Edward Baxter Perry, who once declared that the Polish virtuoso played at his previous season no different from his earlier visits.
To become a virtuoso, however, it is necessary to study the instrument and devote a great deal of energy and time to practice.
He is not only a virtuoso, but also a composer of note, having published several very remarkable pieces for the violin.
This is one of the many services of Liszt, the giant of virtuosos and a giant among composers, to his art.
When the Violin virtuoso, Jean Becker, asked him to let him have one of his string trios, he was roughly refused.
Said the aged virtuoso, holding out both hands, that he might have the satisfaction of touching, at least, this new wonder.
By this he lost the effective use of the whole right hand, and of course his career as a virtuoso practically closed.
He soon became in great demand as a pianist and teacher, and for ten years lived the life of a traveling virtuoso.
At his concerts he featured many of his own works; his reputation as a composer was second only to that as virtuoso.
Everything of which the violin is capable, or which any virtuoso has been able to find in it, is contained in these works.
They enjoy what they play a thousand-fold more than if they were listening to the greatest virtuosos playing the same program.
The fellow wore a shock of lemon-tinted hair after the manner of the Polish virtuoso, but his face was shaven clean.
It is possible that as they are not in general demand, the average virtuoso does not consider their technical difficulties worth conquering.