appassionato
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of appassionato
Example Sentences
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His performance last week�Beethoven's "Appassionato," Sonata, Schumann's Fantasy in C Major, Stravinsky's Sonata, Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel�was studded with wrong notes and blurred acrobatics.
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In the Appassionato, the word of music is made man.
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Before he returns to Moscow, Berman will record Beethoven's Sonata No. 18, as well as the Appassionato, for Columbia.
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Isolatedly aloof, he delivers a stinging diatribe on the duties of an artist in a workers' state, but later tearfully melts at the playing of Beethoven's Appassionato.
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In June she became betrothed to Duke Crazioso di Pianno-Forti, of the famous family of Moderato e Diminuendo—indirectly descended from the Cardinal Appassionato Tutti.
From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Loraine, Lorn
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