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Example sentences for "sharp minor"

  • This was the first time that I really became intimately acquainted with the C sharp minor quartette, because I had never before grasped its melody.

  • I was too ambitious about them, and actually taught them Beethoven's Quartette in C sharp minor, which meant endless trouble and rehearsing.

  • You know that I have four new mazurkas: one from Palma in E minor, three from here in B major, A flat major, and C sharp minor.

  • I think I already wrote to you that my fantasia in F sharp minor, Op.

  • Rachmaninof's Pianoforte Concerto in F sharp minor given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

  • Rimsky-Korsakof's Pianoforte Concerto in C sharp minor given by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

  • Or are you acquainted with the G-sharp minor Prelude?

  • The grandest and boldest is undoubtedly the F sharp minor polonaise, dedicated to Princess Beauvau, sister to Countess Delphine Potocka.

  • For example, the first polonaise (C sharp minor) not only has a melody of uncommon beauty, but there is also a rare depth of character in the apparently bold incoherent themes with which the work begins.

  • Do play the Adagio from Beethoven's C sharp minor Sonata, but nicely, as you can do when you choose.

  • Such are the waltzes in A minor and C sharp minor, the latter inclining in the third and fourth bar to the mazurka measure, for which Chopin always showed a preference.

  • I admired this Russian, Scriabine, ever since I heard Josef Hofmann play a piano of his etude in D sharp minor.

  • Ehlert mentions a "perfect canon in the octave" in one of them (C sharp minor, Opus 63).

  • While it is not as long-breathed as the C sharp minor Scherzo, its concision makes it more tempting to the student.

  • His string quartet in G sharp minor, first played early in 1889 by the quartet led by Prof.

  • At the start, as I have just said, the double theme of Zarathustra appears in D major and A minor, but there is quick modulation to B flat major and C sharp minor, and then to C major and F sharp minor.

  • It is simpler, less morbid, sultry and languorous, therefore saner, than the much bepraised study in C sharp minor, No.

  • To the amiable Princess de Beauvau he dedicated his famous Polonaise in F sharp minor, op.

  • A veritable classic is this piece, which, despite its dark key color, C sharp minor as a foil to the preceding one in E, bubbles with life and spurts flame.

  • She received me with much courtesy, and was most obliging, playing me Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor, and the one in D minor.

  • Eight is striking in F minor, and it is raining and blowing in F sharp minor or G sharp minor; in short, in every possible sharp key.

  • Will you be so good as to get Schott to let me know the fate of the C-sharp minor Quartet?

  • In the afternoon I had played during my lesson with Liszt the 'C Sharp Minor Sonata' of Beethoven and the 'E Minor Fugue' by Handel.

  • Absorbed in the composition of the new finale, and also in the finishing up of the great C sharp minor Quartet, he was for the most part oblivious to anything unusual in his surroundings.

  • This was probably in the year 1826, as Beethoven remained in Vienna all that summer, actively engaged on the great C sharp minor quartet.

  • The great C sharp minor Quartet is indelibly associated with Karl, through its dedication to Baron von Stutterheim, through whom the appointment came.

  • In C-sharp minor and F-sharp major, dedicated to Count Ladislas Teleki.

  • One of Beethoven's finest sonatas, the C sharp minor, was inspired by a beautiful girl: a strong appeal to the emotions calls forth a composer's best powers.

  • A stronger case, of similar import, will be found in the beginning of the first Allegro 6-8 after the long introductory Adagio of the string quartet in C sharp minor.

  • This singular performance still tingled in my ears, when at length I begged Liszt for once to cleanse my musical soul of the painful impression: he played the fourth Prelude and Fugue (C sharp minor).


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