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appassionato

American  
[uh-pah-see-uh-nah-toh, uh-pash-uh-, ahp-pahs-syaw-nah-taw] / əˌpɑ si əˈnɑ toʊ, əˌpæʃ ə-, ɑpˌpɑs syɔˈnɑ tɔ /

adjective

Music.
  1. impassioned; with passion or strong feeling.


appassionato British  
/ əˌpæsjəˈnɑːtəʊ /

adjective

  1. music (to be performed) in an impassioned manner

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of appassionato

From Italian; see origin at ap- 1, passion, -ate 1

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Appassionato, the word of music is made man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before he returns to Moscow, Berman will record Beethoven's Sonata No. 18, as well as the Appassionato, for Columbia.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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