In London, when only eight years old, Mozart composed six pianoforte sonatas, which he dedicated to Queen Charlotte.
At three years old he experienced great pleasure in finding out chords on the pianoforte; at four he learned short pieces of music; and at six composed a pianoforte concerto, methodically arranged.
Among the things published since his death are his "Viking Song," best adapted for a male chorus, and a group of pianoforte and choral works.
He held all four-hand pianoforte arrangements of works designed and composed for orchestra as abominations.
Chopin's compositions are the very essence and consummation of the piano, and he is, therefore, the pianoforte composer par excellence.
Beethoven Also solos for pianoforte and for violoncello.
Quartet at the Altenburg at eleven o'clock, after which Wieniawski played with Liszt the violin and pianoforte 'Sonata in A' by Beethoven.
Dreyschock, passing through that city, called on him one morning, and upon going up the staircase to his room, heard the most lovely tones of the pianoforte imaginable.
I was incessantly at the pianoforte trying to produce the same delightful tone quality by imitating his manner and style.
I might easily have learned from any book of anatomy the names of the muscles which are here referred to, but for the practical instruction of pianoforte pupils this seemed to be of little consequence.
He very cordially invited me to come to his room, saying, "We will play sonatas for violin and pianoforte together.
Neither must I omit the masterly variations for two pianos on a theme of Beethoven, or the splendid pianoforte transcriptions from Bach.
Saint-Saens has published four pianoforte concertos, the second and fourth of which are the best known.
Benedict and Noll, and a solo on the pianoforte by that most promising young artist, Hoffman.
For this he chose De Meyer's fantasy on Semiramide, decidedly of the modern monster school of pianoforte composition, though quite a vigorous, graceful and redeeming specimen thereof.
One day there was a sale in London of the stock of a pianoforte manufacturer advertised in the daily papers.
There is a grand pianoforte opposite, for she was a good musician, and had a remarkably fine voice in earlier years.
She still keeps up her pianoforte playing, for which she won a gold medal, and will improvise on the piano by the hour together.
Elizabeth Weichsel was born in 1770, and began to compose pieces for the pianoforte when eleven years of age.
She appeared in a concert at the age of twelve, playing both the pianoforte and the violin.
The "pushes" need only take the form of pianoforte keys to render the instrument within the grasp of any pianoforte or organ player.
From top to bottom of the shaft must then be stretched, in the same manner as a pianoforte is strung, on stout metal pins, with threading holes and square heads, as many No.
And she repeated the chapel plan to the theatre group, the theatre plan to the chapel party, the nursing to the pianoforte proposers, the haberdashery shop to the private school advocates.
He composed a work for the opening of the Royal Albert Hall, his Nala and Damayanti was performed at Birmingham, and he gave a series of pianoforte recitals of his own compositions at the Hanover Square Rooms in 1871.
Being Chapters on the Elements of Pianoforte Technique.
For description see Pianoforte Section of Catalogue.
This popular and useful book might have been entitled "The Art of Making Arrangements for the Organ orPianoforte from Full Orchestral and Other Scores.
With Hints on Writing for Strings andPianoforte Accompaniments.
Comprising the complete Solo Works; Works for Piano and Orchestra; also Works for Piano Duet and Organ Works as applicable to Pianoforte Solo.
As the pianoforte is a stringed instrument, some attention should be given to the subject of the vibration of strings.
Pianoforte makers have discovered by experiment that the most pleasing tone is excited when the point against which the hammer strikes is one-seventh to one-ninth of the length of the wire from one end.
He was testing her rather highly, since the pianoforte score of the suites in question was by no means easy.
Here, moreover, there comes into the score an element of novelty, for the confession is extorted from Lorris while a virtuoso is entertaining a drawing-roomful of people with a set pianoforte solo.
Like Handel, the boy studied the pianoforte by stealth in the attic.
The work may be said to have brought his creative activities to a close, although two compositions (a set of six pianoforte pieces and an orchestral suite) appear in his list of numbered works after the sacred opera.
The remainder of the work was then taken off my hands, and the sixty pianoforte arrangements went back to the curious shop in the Rue Richelieu.
The Fliegender Hollander had also been finished, and the pianoforte arrangement of Rienzi for duet, as well as some songs selected from both operas, had either been published or were about to be published.
In September of the year 1844 I had presented the King of Saxony with a special richly bound copy of the completepianoforte arrangement of Rienzi, dedicated to his Majesty.
I shall never forget a dinner at Schroder-Devrient's house at which we had a charming conversation with Spontini and his wife (a sister of the celebrated pianoforte maker, Erard).
We began, therefore, with a pianoforte rehearsal, at which the master made a point of telling the singers what he wanted.
I started at once on the publication of a pianoforte arrangement of Tannhauser, preparing it myself while Rockel undertook the Fliegender Hollander, and a certain Klink did Rienzi.
He rallied me lightly on my fears, and said it would much please him to play it, as he had not heard the pianoforte part since he had left Oxford three months ago.
Mr. Gaskell, though in easy circumstances, had not a pianoforte in his rooms, and was pleased to use a fine instrument by D'Almaine that John had that term received as a birthday present from his guardian.
He strongly advised that the bookcase should be moved, and suggested that it would be better to place it across that end of the room where the pianofortethen stood.
It was therefore a cause of much gratification to the two young men, and it afterwards became a strong bond of friendship, to discover that one was as devoted to the pianoforte as was the other to the violin.
And so saying he opened thepianoforte and sat down.
The pianoforte was directly evolved from the clavichord and the harpsichord.
Here Wagner took lessons on the pianoforte from Gottlieb Müller, and never learnt to play.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pianoforte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clavichord; grand; harpsichord; piano; pianoforte; spinet; upright
