The difference between the mere virtuoso and the deep critic is that, in the latter, behind views on art we discern far-reaching thoughts on life.
Oh, I suppose this is the young virtuoso you were telling me about?
See also a good description of the style of playing of the virtuoso J.
Kolbel, a Bohemian horn virtuoso at the imperial Russian court from 1754, spent many years in vain endeavours to improve his instrument.
A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
Defn: A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.
Virtuoso the Italians call a man who loves the noble arts, and is a critic in them.
His style was so entirely warped by his love for show and the virtuoso side of singing that the many real beauties of his music are hardly recognizable.
Whether these productions were exactly suited to the time troubled the virtuoso little, and that by his last threat he had attained exactly the opposite with Natalie from what he wished, did not occur to him at all, momentarily.
Anxiously she looked around the theatre: the people were patient, had too much sympathy for the virtuoso Lensky to inconsiderately insult the composer.
He loved his prudence as an artistic capability, and was glad to give proofs, by all kinds of virtuoso performances, of its extent and unusual pliability.
Touchingly faithful to his old enthusiasm, he busied himself by singling out the wife of the virtuoso on every possible occasion, with the most exaggerated homage and attentions.
Have patience, sacrifice the virtuoso to the composer in you, and you will see what a splendid reward you will reap!
The virtuoso felt not at all pleasantly toward the young dandy when he asked him unusually kindly and sympathetically whether he was contented with the result of his last concert tour.
The virtuoso was accustomed to a universal exclamation following the announcement of his name, and the looks of the whole assembly should be directed to him.
She was the Princess Natalie Alexandrovna Assanow; he the feted violin virtuoso and well-known composer, Boris Lensky.
A few months later he took up his wanderer's staff anew, and left Petersburg, where he had returned with his family, in order to distract himself by the most exaggerated virtuoso triumphs from the humiliation which had befallen the composer.
Russian introduced the virtuoso to her, she raised her lorgnette and said: "Monsieur Lensky--ah!
Whiting has devoted more of his interest to his career as virtuoso on the organ than to composition.
The Finnish virtuoso thought he was in a piano wareroom.
Léontine, the Aërial Virtuoso of the Century," the playbills called her.
Yes, but this is not as modern as that cornet-virtuoso Kipling, or as ancient as Tennyson, if you must know.
In it the piano receives better treatment than the other instruments; there are many virtuoso passages, but again key changes are not frequent or disparate enough to avoid a monotone.
According to his own lights the Russian virtuoso was right: his strength was not equal to the task, and so, imitating Chopin, he topsy-turvied the shading.
Chopin's very Slavic version is spirited, but the virtuoso predominates.
Liszt has said that in every young artist there is the virtuoso fever, and Chopin being a pianist did not escape the fever of the footlights.
An essential requirement in an instrumental virtuoso is that he should understand how to breathe, and how to allow his hearers to take breath--giving them opportunity to arrive at a better understanding.
His pupil, Moriz Rosenthal, is the only modern virtuoso who plays the Hexameron in his concerts, and play it he does with overwhelming splendor.
There is more depth in it than in the G flat and F major studies, and its effectiveness in the virtuoso sense is unquestionable.
This dance form, since the death of the great composer, has been chiefly developed on the virtuoso side.
One might be inclined to think of him as a virtuoso in pastel possibly, and his paintings in the medium of oil suggest this sort of richness.
The virtuoso now opened the door of a closet and showed me a lamp burning, while three others stood unlighted by its side.
My eye was next attracted by an old pair of shears, which I should have taken for a memorial of some famous tailor, only that the virtuoso pledged his veracity that they were the identical scissors of Atropos.
It had not escaped me that, though the virtuoso was evidently a man of high cultivation, yet he seemed to lack sympathy with the spiritual, the sublime, and the tender.
For my part, however, I would have given a higher price for those six of the Sibyl's books which Tarquin refused to purchase, and which the virtuoso informed me he had himself found in the cave of Trophonius.
At all events, he was evidently the virtuoso in person.
Struggling between pity and horror, I extended my hand, to which thevirtuoso gave his own, still with the habitual courtesy of a man of the world, but without a single heart-throb of human brotherhood.
As he spoke, the virtuoso took from the shelf a crystal vase containing a sable liquor, which caught no reflected image from the objects around.
Feeling somewhat wearied with the survey of so many novelties and antiquities, I sat down upon Cowper's sofa, while the virtuosothrew himself carelessly into Rabelais's easychair.
For the same reason I shall pass lightly over the specimens of antique sculpture which this indefatigable and fortunate virtuoso had dug out of the dust of fallen empires.
The virtuoso pointed out to me a crystalline stone which hung by a gold chain against the wall.
The virtuoso made no answer except by a dry laugh and an assurance that the salamander was the very same which Benvenuto Cellini had seen in his father's household fire.
Feeling but little interest in the science, I noticed only Anacreon's grasshopper, and a bumblebee which had been presented to the virtuoso by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
With the violin he made less progress, although he took lessons from Bohm, a distinguished master and virtuoso who had not, however, so Glinka declared, the gift of imparting his own knowledge to others.
Glinka's repertory at nineteen contained nothing more profound than the virtuoso music of Steibelt, Herz, Hummel and Kalkbrenner.
As I am not a pianist, it was necessary to consult some virtuoso as to what might be ineffective, impracticable, and ungrateful in my technique.
He combines the personalities of a remarkable virtuoso and a gifted composer, so that the latter is borne as it were upon the shoulders of the former.
In those days, never having heard any other virtuoso than my teacher, I believed him, in all sincerity, to be the greatest in the world.
They show the influence of Courbet, but already the blacks and the greys have an original and superb quality; they announce a virtuoso of the first order.
This masterly virtuoso of the pencil might give drawing-lessons to many members of the Institute!
We have here an incessant confusion of methods, a complete emancipation of the virtuoso who listens only to his fancy.
He, as the chief virtuoso and artifex, is called upon to see that the whole is harmoniously articulated and that it receives a living form.
I must mention to you the name of Camille Saint- Saens in Paris, as specially deserving of notice in the Neue Zeitschrft as a distinguished artist, virtuoso and composer.
Sgambati is decidedly not an artist for a watering-place, although as a virtuoso his talent is extraordinary and undoubtedly effective.
Brassin that I thank him much for not having been afraid of compromising his success as a virtuoso by choosing my Concerto?
Any other special violin virtuoso would be superfluous this time.
He is not only a very great virtuoso and musician, but also a veritable sovereign of music.
Although I had begged that my name should not be mentioned, Herr von Langenmantl was so incautious as to say, with a simper, to Herr Stein, "I have the honor to present to you a virtuoso on the piano.
Immediately on their return home, the young virtuoso was appointed archiepiscopal Concertmeister.
The patrician members of the Casino said that their cashbox was at a very low ebb, and that you were not the kind of virtuoso who could expect a souverain d'or.
Even Professor Schwerl told David, albeit secretly, that he was for Miss Jane, his theory being that it was better to hear a canary bird pipe prettily than to listen to any half-baked virtuoso Lucille was likely to secure.
Telephanes was a great virtuoso who scorned the use of a speaker-hole, being able to obtain his harmonics on the aulos by the mere control of lips and teeth.
The sixth key was added about 1790 by the celebrated French virtuoso Xavier Lefebure (or Lefevre), and produced G#.
He is not the least changed, only somewhat older in appearance, but otherwise as fresh and in as good spirits as ever, and playing quite splendidly; another kind of perfect virtuoso and master combined.
Taken to Vienna, the six-year-old virtuoso astonished the court by his brilliant talents.
These journeys were an uninterrupted chain of triumphs for the child-virtuoso on the piano, organ, violin, and in singing.
A fort and a monastery still protect and adorn the place; but these have both been raised in more recent years.
These lads assisted him in the service, while his neighbors took their turn of either dropping in to mass, or mounting guard in the lane.
Some people think the Archbishop of Archangel nurses a grudge against the civil power for this infringement of his ancient rights; and this idea was probably present in the mind of Father John.
Our pilgrims cross themselves and mutter a voiceless prayer, while the aged monk lays down his taper and unlocks the door.
A band of young men stole into the Belvedere in the gloom of a November night, and ravaged through the rooms.
He finds a divine enjoyment in the sound of cloister-bells, a foretaste of heaven in kneeling near the bones of saints.
Forty thousand rubles a year has been mentioned to me as the sum received in gifts; but five thousand pounds must be far below the amount of money passing in a year under Father Michael's eye.
Archangel was made by Peter his peculiar care; and masons were fetched from Holland to erect his lines of bastions, magazines, and quays.
