It was a fantasia that exploded into life like a rocket, shedding a stream of vivid human fire.
She did not seem to be stirred by the fantasia of the firelight, or to catch any gaiety or life from the boisterous activity of those about her.
Levin asked timidly, forgetting that the fantasia was supposed to represent King Lear.
But the more he listened to the fantasia of King Lear the further he felt from forming any definite opinion of it.
During the whole of the performance Levin felt like a deaf man watching people dancing, and was in a state of complete bewilderment when the fantasia was over, and felt a great weariness from the fruitless strain on his attention.
He further wrote ten Concertos, three Concertinos, a Fantasia with orchestra, Polonaises, as well as Duets and Sonatas, with bass accompaniment for the cello.
His compositions consist of two Concertos and a Fantasia with orchestral accompaniment.
The young men execute in their presence a fantasia of the wildest description.
Peace concluded, the tribe that had put itself into motion retraces its steps, and at its departure executes a fantasia of the most noisy character.
In like manner, after a painful and fatiguing excursion, at the moment he reaches his tent let him perform the fantasia for a while.
Display in a brilliant fantasia the worth of your horses and of yourselves.
He is the messenger to whose care one of the lovely spectators has confided the secret of her love, in charging him to deliver to the hero of the fantasia her khrolkhral, or anklets, or her mekhranga, or necklace of cloves.
And yet, on rejoining our people, we performed the fantasia on our horses, and some among us burnt powder.
Bull returned the compliment by writing a Fantasia on a Fugue by Sweelinck.
Vienna, had at her request showed him for an opinion a fantasia composed by her, but without disclosing the author's identity.
I recall this fantasia because I was so fortunate as to have heard it so near him.
The introductory pianoforte fantasia which was published to take the place of Beethoven's improvisation at the first performance, was composed in 1809.
In this letter Beethoven offers Breitkopf and Haertel the Fantasia (Op.
Fantasia for Pianoforte, Orchestra and Chorus; dedicated to Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria.
Fantasia shows how this is done--look in the overture to Egmont, where a whole measure is missing.
Fantasia and the Pianoforte Concerto in E-flat, which was not worked out till later.
Fantasia for the Pianoforte which ends with the gradual entrance of the entire orchestra and the introduction of choruses as a finale.
During the last movement of the Fantasia I perceived that, like a run-away carriage going down-hill, an overturn was inevitable.
Beethoven also agrees to compose on the same terms, within a time not fixed, and at his own convenience, three Sonatas or two Sonatas and a Fantasia for Pianoforte with or without accompaniment, as he chooses, for which he is to be paid L60.
Countess Therese von Brunswick, was conceived and written immediately after the Fantasia (in October).
There was no more thought of playing music, for after Beethoven's fantasia half of the pianoforte strings were broken.
He visited Rome and Naples for the first time, and came back with a symphonic fantasia called Aus Italien.
A fantasia for piano and orchestra was given at the London Philharmonic Concerts in 1892, the first instance of a woman's composition being given by that orchestra.
Among her important works are dramatic, concert, and festival overtures, and a fantasia for piano and orchestra, all given at various English festivals.
He heard him play a fantasia on airs from "Robert le Diable" at a concert in honour of Beethoven, and his sincere German heart was outraged at such desecration.
The free-fantasia of the poem was reached, and, roaring, the music neared its climacteric point.
Quite of this style was the fantasia of Mr. Chopin, who gained unanimous applause.
Fantasia on Polish airs, composed and played by Chopin.
Fantasia on Polish airs for piano and orchestra (Op.
Rellstab discusses the Fantasiawith his usual obtuseness, but points out correctly that Chopin gives only here and there a few bars of melody, and never a longer melodic strain.
The great success, however, of the evening was his performance of the Fantasiaon Polish airs.
The concert- giver performed in conclusion a fantasia on Polish national songs.
Chopin's early virtuosic style, of which we see almost the last in the concertos, where it appears in a chastened and spiritualised form very different from the materialism of the Fantasia (Op.
He then composed his Fantasiawith choruses on The Tempest, but Girard at once saw it was too big for his theatre and could only be done at the Opera.
Unfortunately, the first half of this fantasia is the song I have just noticed, with elaborate bravura passages for the piano, but the middle episode is much more like the real man.
The Barmer fantasia was well designed; I must describe it for Fanny.
I think I already wrote to you that my fantasia in F sharp minor, Op.
This fantasia and the E flat rondo (with orchestra), Op.
The groundwork of the two great forms of the period next ensuing, the fugue and the sonata, had been laid, and a certain amount of precedent established in favor of free composition in dance and fantasia form.
His first composition in the style which he afterward made so famous was the fantasia on themes from "Euryanthe," which was published in 1828.
The second part of the fantasia is occupied by a succession of recitatives of an extremely graphic and poetic character.
During the same year there were the sixth and seventh symphonies, the choral fantasia and portions of the mass in C, and the overture to "Coriolanus," of Beethoven.
Here he stands with Bach, who in his great Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue requires and confidently expects the breadth of tone and the power of the modern piano.
The remarkable thing about this fantasia is the freedom of its treatment and the facility with which it lends itself to virtuoso handling, as distinguished from the rather limited treatment of the piano usual in Bach's works.
One of his earliest compositions was a fantasia for four hands, having about thirteen movements of different character, occupying about thirty-two pages of fine writing.
In the fantasia in C, Schumann's fancy takes on a more serious mood.
Why, Gad, man, the last issue of Futuria Fantasia I didn't know if I was coming or going, the way you heiroglyphed the sheets.
But from now on Futuria Fantasia will be ten cents straight an issue.
Let us limit our edition of Schubert's pianoforte compositions to 2 Sonatas, the G major Fantasia (a Virgilian poem!
Liszt played the E-major Concerto and the pianoforte Fantasia (with chorus), and accompanied the Scotch songs sung by Caroline Bettelheim.
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