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He was the supreme pianoforte virtuoso.
Perhaps the virtuosos poured in too plentifully.
Exclaimed the virtuoso in a tone of disappointment.
The virtuoso ceased and gazed musingly into vacancy.
Eugen d'Albert regards this Sonata as essentially a virtuoso piece.
Listen to a great virtuoso play his two concertos.
Personality, then, is the virtuoso's one great unassailable stronghold.
Benson's "charm" is what the virtuoso feels as magnetism.
Wagner is the greatest orchestral virtuoso who ever breathed.
Later in life he became something of an antiquarian and virtuoso.
He played the piano skillfully, but as amateur, not virtuoso.
It had the multiplied brilliancy of a virtuoso's piano playing.
A strange irritation vibrated in every nerve of the virtuoso.
Of the brilliant virtuoso style he is unquestionably the founder.
The virtuoso beckoned smilingly, while the train steamed away.
He sweeps over it like a mighty virtuoso with unerring touch.
His caprices remain the sheet anchor of the would-be virtuoso.
The musical rapture revealed the decrepit old man as a virtuoso.
Nor did he neglect the other resources of a skillful virtuoso.
Then, inaugurating at once Clara's career as a virtuoso, he took her to Vienna.
We are told that Frederick the Great was an incomparable political virtuoso.
A miser may, in general, be looked upon as a particular species of virtuoso.
Aubrey of Surrey, a professed virtuoso, and always replete with new discoveries.
Said of code and designs which exhibit both complexity and a virtuoso flair.
He was distinctly a virtuoso, loving his instrument and its tonal powers.
His success there, as pianoforte virtuoso, teacher and composer, was almost unexampled.
Do not tell me he is not a virtuoso of rare technique on the lyre!
Mozart was a youthful prodigy, and later a virtuoso of the highest rank.
All this material is amplified, often with brilliant virtuoso passages in the violin.
It was merely a specialized development of his tastes as a virtuoso and collector.
It was no private possession of the virtuoso, or sequestered playground of the amateur.
There, the only chance for the young virtuoso is at the conservatory concerts.
One case suffices to show the road which the American virtuoso is likely to travel.
He was a great virtuoso, wrote several brilliant Concertos, and some incomparable studies.
It is thither indeed the virtuoso passion naturally tends; and there, it finally acquiesces.
On the other hand, their real musical value is unhappily obscured by virtuoso display.
In his obituary notice of Paganini, published in Paris, he places him above all virtuosos.
Cost of production in the case of such a virtuoso is scarcely to be alluded to.
Free from caricature, it is probably the most authentic picture of the great virtuoso.
This composition concludes with a coda marked by virtuoso passages for the solo instrument.
He discusses a horrible action, or execrable crime, as a virtuoso examines a statue or a painting.
His second concerto for piano is one of the best virtuoso pieces for that instrument.
Hummel was a really great virtuoso, and was noted for his remarkable improvisations.
Please do not infer that I would say that all teachers should be virtuoso pianists.
All eyes and hearts were in complete subjection to the bow of the young virtuoso.
I see I cannot write a concerto for the virtuosos: I must plan something else.
Up to the present day the most eminent virtuoso is commonly spoken of as a "fiddler."
He was a mathematician, physicist, a profound theorist, and a virtuoso upon the piano and harpsichord.
His pianoforte compositions still remain as a necessary part of the education of the modern virtuoso.
Somebody hard up for 'copy' denounced this pastime, and made merry over a virtuoso's whim.
For virtuoso pianists an entirely new world remains to be conquered in the works of Brahms.
It is this difference of interpretation that adds charm to the piano recitals of different virtuosos.
He was a silent drinker, a virtuoso on the flute, and was supposed to know Arabic.
Mandolin, guitar, harmonica, and a squeaky violin were responding to the touch of the virtuoso beggars.
It was the shade of Beethoven, conjured up by the virtuoso to whose voice we were listening.
From this you may see that a true meritorious virtuoso does not know the feeling of envy.
In this species of opera the virtuosos were not so powerful as the poet and the composer.
Some virtuosos regard their well-meaning admirers and entertainers as the worst penalties of the virtuoso life.
Full of imaginative lift, caprice and stormy dynamics, this prelude is the darling of the virtuoso.
When, however, utility occupies a prominent place in the thoughts of the virtuoso, he becomes a benefactor.
Indeed, it seems more difficult to attain exalted rank as a virtuoso than to gain immortality as a composer.
It is therefore the most complete account of the greatest virtuoso recorded in the annals of music.
This Bohemian virtuoso, after several years of wandering, had lately come to Vienna from Paris, via Munich.
At the end of the concerto the applause was generous enough to satisfy the most exacting virtuoso.
He was such a keen virtuoso that he got the reputation of always itching to buy new things.
And every one of them an artist, a dreamer, a virtuoso in his special subdivision of the field!
The virtuoso, who had been hopefully hovering in the offing, bore down to take the vacated chair.
He draws a mirror and a tiny brush from his pocket, and wields them like a virtuoso.
He plays little things tenderly, exquisitely, and the man is first the musician, then the virtuoso.
As a virtuoso I think Liszt stood above Rubinstein, for his playing must have possessed amazing, dazzling qualities.
He is a skillful virtuoso, a composer of originality, and a leading representative of the modern English school.
It is a great misfortune to a country to have no dandies, those supreme virtuosos of taste and distinction.
Moritz Rosenthal, possibly the most fully equipped virtuoso technically now before the public, was born in 1862.
Musicians will understand me when I add that he has asked every orchestral player to be a virtuoso.
He is one of the most brilliant virtuosos of the French school, admirable alike in taste, execution and arrangement.
It is true that one great virtuoso now before the public played frequently before large audiences as an infant prodigy.
One season later the expected virtuoso vanishes from the public eye and a new aspirant takes her place.
His hearers forgot the admiration due to the wonderful virtuoso, and seemed to listen to voices from another world.
During his American tours I called frequently upon this virtuoso for the purpose of investigating his method of playing.
The diction of the mere virtuoso, even when "brilliant," may be traditional and trivial; genuine style is never so.
He then began the first of many tours of the country, to become the first significant American-born piano virtuoso.
Paradoxical as it may appear, there never was, before or since, so great a virtuoso who was less a virtuoso.
Seeing him so indefatigable, I told Poky one day that I was a virtuoso in shells and curiosities of all kinds.
Francis Wade was an invalid virtuoso, who detested business, and whose ambition was to be known as man of taste.
It was, in fact, a quartet of boy virtuosos, of whom Beethoven, several years older, could make what he would.
He was disdainful of the attitude of the Viennese public which caused the virtuoso often to be confused with the artist.
He was a marvelous virtuoso who mistook the piano for an orchestra and often confounded the orchestra with the piano.
"For, near each other, we would mutually annoy each other," the virtuoso has from the beginning signified to his son.
The consequence is that all but the student or the virtuoso in such matters have been repelled from their perusal.
I have been long searching for it in vain, and I shall esteem myself the most enviable of virtuosos in possessing it.
The majority of them may be more truly musical than many of the virtuoso pianists, but they are lacking in technique.
Any man who has ever watched an organist pull out stops and push them in again can become a motor virtuoso.
In the whole world there are perhaps two, at the most three pianoforte virtuosos who really deserve to be called great.
When he heard the virtuoso was only a mere lad, he would not give credence to the fact unless by ocular demonstration.
It will be recognized that all his work is permeated by his youthful impressions; he is, in fact, a virtuoso at large.
He was not one of the great virtuosos, but his touch was delicate and nimble, and he had a sincere love of his art.
As for Liszt, to whose interpretation he accorded deserved praise, he had with secret disdain penetrated to the somewhat small kernel of original and worthy ideas in that author's early virtuoso pieces.
After the appearance of the violin virtuoso Paganini, he resolved to attain the highest development of his musical genius and to become so world-renowned as none has been before him, and in this was successful.
Evidently a virtuoso, this mistress-spy, in which connection we cannot help reflecting on the deep and intimate knowledge that Charles, the most cynical and light-hearted of kings, must have had of women.
Those years have enlarged the orchestra by introducing many new and telling instruments, also they have developed its technique and otherwise elevated it to the virtuoso demands of our most modern composers.