Before unlocking, he holds out his hand for the twenty-kreutzer fee, which every one must pay for admittance; his own fee will be an after consideration.
They answered readily, and wrote words on a scrap of paper, and seemed pleased to show off what they knew, and still more pleased at finding a kreutzer in their hand when the questions ended.
Kreutzer after kreutzer, a few small silver coins, and two or three twopenny bank-notes were dropped into the receptacle, which was presently emptied into the ready hands of the fluteplayer.
Well, four gulden and forty kreutzer, besides fifteenkreutzer for the bread and five kreutzer for the salt, make altogether five gulden of the realm.
That adds an increase of more than twenty kreutzer daily to the public expenditure, altogether, since the middle of December, fourteen gulden of the realm.
The analysis of his motives is wrought with a terrible sombre power, which anticipates The Kreutzer Sonata.
The Kreutzer Sonata probably ranks with Anna Karénina as being the best-known of Tolstoy's productions.
To the sombre irony, the mental tumult of the Kreutzer Sonata and The Death of Ivan Ilyitch he adds a religious serenity, a detachment from the world, which is faithfully reflected in himself.
In The Kreutzer Sonata there is not even this "ray of light.
The Kreutzer Sonata enables us to plumb the depths of this passionate injustice.
There is the same vigorous portraiture, the same ease and fullness of handling, as in the Kreutzer Sonata.
I shall return to this matter when speaking of the Kreutzer Sonata.
In the power of its effects, in passionate concentration, in the brutal vividness of its impressions, and in fullness and maturity of form, nothing Tolstoy has written equals the Kreutzer Sonata.
They are quite close to each other, and yet they shout as though they were trying to persuade some one not to put a fifteen-kreutzer stamp on a local letter.
A three-kreutzer stamp is sufficient for local letters.
Massart was to play, with Franz Liszt, a program which included the Kreutzer sonata.
The concert began, and after an organ solo and a song had been given by other musicians, they played the Kreutzer sonata.
Kreutzer made a tour through the north of Italy, Germany, and Holland, during which he acquired the reputation of being one of the first violinists in Europe.
The following year he returned to Paris, where he was made solo violinist to the First Consul, and it was at this period that he gained his greatest success, when he played with Kreutzer a duo concertante of the latter's composition.
Liszt's performance roused the audience to a perfect frenzy, but Massart nevertheless most dutifully returned and played the Kreutzer sonata, which fell entirely flat after the dazzling display of the great pianist.
Kreutzer was a prolific composer, and his compositions include forty dramatic works and a great number of pieces for the violin.
On his arrival at the Conservatoire, Cherubini, who was splenetive and rash, refused him admission without assigning any reason for his decision, but Rudolph Kreutzer took upon his shoulders the task of forming the future artist.
Kreutzer was noted for his style of bowing, his splendid tone, and the clearness of his execution.
He was a pupil of Kreutzer and of Spohr, and held the position of director and first violinist of the royal band at Stuttgart.
He was born in Pressburg, Hungary, in 1822, and became a pupil of Böhm and of Mayseder at Vienna, also of Kreutzer and Sechter.
In 1798, when Kreutzer was at Vienna in the service of the French ambassador, Bernadotte, he made the acquaintance of Beethoven, and was afterwards honoured by that great composer with the dedication to him of the famous Sonata, Op.
I told her I would have nothing to do with the lottery, and would buy no ticket, but she persisted, saying: "Has he a twenty kreutzer piece?
We met near Amstegg a little Italian boy walking home, from Germany, quite alone and without money, for we saw him give his last kreutzerto a blind beggar along the road.
At the humblest inn in an humble village, we found a bed which we could barely pay for, leaving a kreutzer or two for breakfast.
My health is ruined, my clothes spoilt, and not a kreutzer do I get.
The advice submitted to them was to raise the thaler from 90 to 96-kreutzer (see account of German coinage, Appendix V.
For the divisional coinage (6 and 3-kreutzer pieces) a standard of 27 guldens to the mark was adopted, the details of the various fractional pieces being left to the different states.
Originally heller and kreutzer were only alternative forms of the pfennige, not subdivisions of it (heller = Haellische pfennige); but the irregular course of depreciation established a difference in character.
Of the origin of the kreutzer less is known, as few, if any, records of it occur before its minting in the Tyrol in 1490.
In Germany, meanwhile, the standard of opera in lighter vein was upheld by Konradin Kreutzer (1780), the heir of Hiller and Dittersdorf.
Neither Kreutzer nor Marschner can be cited as having contributed anything substantially new to instrumentation, but they at least helped to strengthen the foundations of modern orchestration as initiated by Weber.
Kreutzer is, of course, better known from his Forty Studies than from anything else that he has written.
Every spare kreutzer was expended on music-paper; every free hour was devoted to study or composition; for nearly twelve years there followed a course of training as complete as the most rigorous self-discipline could make it.
Among those names were those of the Princes Lichnowsky and Lichtenstein, the Countesses Kaunitz and Spielmann, of Beethoven and Salieri, Kreutzer and Clementi, and finally, those of the poets Collin and Carpani.
The audience paused; all forgot the imperial hymn, and looked only at the venerable old maestro, whom Salieri and Kreutzer lowered now softly into the easy-chair, which had been brought to them.
No amount of insane power flashing here and there amid the foulness of Tolstoi's "Kreutzer Sonata," can reconcile the world to the fact that the book embodies the broodings of a mind morbid and diseased.
Kreutzer made a tour, in 1798, through the north of Italy and Germany, and returned to Paris by the way of Hamburg and Holland, giving concerts in all the principal cities.
He completed his studies under Kreutzer and Rode--to the latter of whom, in the sweet qualities of his style, he mainly inclined.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kreutzer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
