appassionato
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of appassionato
Example Sentences
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In the Appassionato, the word of music is made man.
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
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
Before he returns to Moscow, Berman will record Beethoven's Sonata No. 18, as well as the Appassionato, for Columbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had been playing for some time, when Beethoven suddenly exclaimed, "Ries, play us an Amoroso;" shortly after "a Malinconico;" then an "Appassionato," &c.
From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton
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