I leave you to imagine whether these now wonderful, now charming improvisations quickened the brains and made supple the legs of our performers.
Many of the improvisations of the badchen never see daylight, but pass in manuscript form to their brothers in the profession.
His improvisations were replete with Biblical and Talmudical allusions, and cabbalistic combinations of the Hebrew letters of the names of the married couple.
All his contemporaries agree in praising the wonderful genius with which Handel adapted himself instinctively in his improvisationsto the spirit of his audience.
One might say that the public were drawn to his oratorios more by his improvisations on the organ than by the oratorios themselves.
He performed a symphony besides a melodrama composed for the occasion and between them played prettily composed improvisations on the pianoforte.
In his improvisations even then Beethoven did not deny his tendency toward the mysterious and gloomy.
Two of the best Arabic poems of the kind are the improvisations of the vagabond Abu Zayd in the 11th and 50th Assembly of Hariri's Assemblies.
In his Improvisations from the Spirit (1857) Wilkinson wrote down in rhymed verse the first impressions of a chosen theme.
At the end of six months Sylvia had evolved enough improvisations to make a start.
Before the curtain went up, Sylvia could think of nothing but the improvisations that she ought to have invented instead of the ones that she had.
I've lived a life of feverish energy, and it's only since theimprovisations that I can begin to believe it wasn't all wasted.
One of herimprovisations had been Maurice Avery; she must burn it.
And once more, Max Maria von Weber writes that his father's improvisations on the piano were like delightful dreams.
Russell was probably one of the witnesses of whom Richard Wagner remarked, in his essay on Beethoven, that they have testified to the incomparable impression which Beethoven made by his improvisations at the piano.
In Peru, besides the priests, there were prophets who uttered their improvisations amid terrible contortions and convulsions.
Milli, after one of her eloquent improvisationswhich are worth the whole existence of a minor poet, falls into a state of paralysis which lasts several days.
The programmes consisted of improvisations by the youthful Mozart upon themes assigned by the audience; pieces for violin and piano, the father taking the violin part, and the sister in turn played piano pieces.
These charming improvisations turned the children's heads and made their legs nimble.
It has already been remarked that preludes or fantasias were often prefixed as introductions to various kinds of compositions, either in the form of free improvisations or elaborate pieces that could be used on different occasions.
Both the improvisations to be on themes set by the examiners.
Whether he played for the service, for his pupils or for some chosen musical guest, Franck's improvisations were always thoughtful and full of feeling.
Compositions and improvisationsof the violinist followed.
There and in Trieste his improvisations awakened the liveliest interest, and the extremely enthusiastic criticisms of Dr.
Ninth Symphony, both of which give a faithful illustration of his improvisations in this form.
After such improvisations Beethoven was wont to break out into a ringing peal of amused laughter.
But it would require more time and labor than I can afford to give an adequate account of so many effusions or improvisations as served for fuel to boil the scanty and precarious pot of his uncertain and uncomfortable sustenance.
In his command and in his use of the metre first made fashionable by the graceful improvisations of Greene, Webster seems to me as original and as peculiar as in his grasp and manipulation of character and event.
Her poems are attractive, but they are only improvisations which drop from her mouth spontaneously.
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