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  • Taking advantage of the visit of the famous pianist Romeo Lussich, who played a cycle of Mozart sonatas as soon as the city had recovered from mourning the death of General Ignacio Maria, Dr. Juvenal Urbino had the piano from the Music School placed in a mule-drawn wagon and brought a history-making serenade to Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • I only know the Moonlight Sonata and the Fifth Symphony.†   (source)
  • Ronnie was so enveloped in misery, it took a second for her to recognize Mozart's Sonata no. 16 in C Major.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo learned how to play pieces by Debussy ("Clair de lune"), Erik Satie (Gymnopedie no. 3), and Chopin (Sonata no. 2).†   (source)
  • I'd already recorded it once, along with a Chopin etude and a Bach prelude and fugue, but I wasn't happy with the sonata and wanted to record it again.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to try to play Bach's sonata number one," she quietly announced.†   (source)
  • Kelly Armendariz busily tries to teach the opening bars of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to Mark Mclntosh on an old piano in the lounge.†   (source)
  • This allusion to Beethoven was actually Tomas's first step back to Tereza, because she was the one who had induced him to buy records of the Beethoven quartets and sonatas.†   (source)
  • In the corner, a faun was playing a sonata upon a grand piano, its soothing melodies strangely out of sync with the rushed and hurried departures.†   (source)
  • One time, feeling bold, I played a Mozart Sonata in an airport lobby, between connecting flights.†   (source)
  • About the only contact I'd had with art was in high school, in the Art Appreciation class we had to take in Grade Nine, where we listened to the Moonlight Sonata and interpreted it with wavy crayon lines, or drew a tulip in a vase.†   (source)
  • From the fullness of the clouds, the arc of a swallow, and the sparkling of the sun upon a shattered river, came sonatas, symphonies, and songs.†   (source)
  • I stood there in pounding embarrassment for long moments listening to the muffled sounds behind the bathroom door, aware now for the first time of the Scarlatti piano sonata that had been playing softly on the phonograph.†   (source)
  • They often held receptions and evenings of chamber music at which piano trios, violin sonatas, and string quartets were performed.†   (source)
  • And if the sonata had an origin in a place on earth, it was the place where Virgie, even, had never been and was not likely ever to go.†   (source)
  • Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.   (source)
  • a beautiful Mozart sonata
  • Then it went quiet, except for this: Beethoven's Cello Sonata no. 3, still playing.†   (source)
  • I haven't since I was in the car this morning, listening to Beethoven's Cello Sonata no. 3.†   (source)
  • She and Dad listened downstairs while I was up in my room practicing a Vivaldi sonata.†   (source)
  • Her feelings came out only in the music, the beautiful Bach sonata.†   (source)
  • It takes me three notes to recognize the Haydn sonata he's put on.†   (source)
  • The sonata was known to be dry, labored, and boring.†   (source)
  • She plays with a rare sort of joy in defiance of her wheelchair, and her sonata lifts the spirits of all the new arrivals.†   (source)
  • This time Nathaniel played the first three movements of the Bach Sonata No. Excellent bow control for expressive playing, possibly a larger dynamic spectrum on f side would be desirable.†   (source)
  • But you know how romantic the Moonlight Sonata is, and you can hear how dramatically Beethoven expresses himself in the Fifth Symphony.†   (source)
  • When the director announced that Sofia would be playing Mozart's Piano Sonata No. i, there was some muttering and a shifting of chairs.†   (source)
  • She has to know the Sonata.†   (source)
  • After drumming his fingers on the armrest of his chair, the Count rose and recommenced his pacing while humming Mozart's Piano Sonata No. i in C major.†   (source)
  • They'll play Twelve Variations on "Fin Madchen oder Weibchen," Six Variations on an Original Theme in F Major, Sonata in G minor for Piano and Cello, Seven Variations on "Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fahlen" and Sonata in D major for Piano and Cello.†   (source)
  • In the second movement, the sonata transitioned to an andante tempo more in keeping with Sofia at seventeen, when she would welcome thunderstorms on Saturday afternoons so that she could sit in their study with a book in her lap or a recording on the phonograph.†   (source)
  • His first offering is a Beethoven cello sonata, and this drab concrete corner of downtown Los Angeles, with its nearby settlement of bug-bitten denizens and moving clouds of noxious vehicle exhaust, is transformed into a place of lilting repose.†   (source)
  • I hear the first few bars of Beethoven's Cello Sonata no. 3, which was the very piece I was supposed to be working on this afternoon.†   (source)
  • I concentrate on the notes, imagining myself playing, feeling grateful for this chance to practice, happy to be in a warm car with my sonata and my family.†   (source)
  • The electricity rose up his spine and he trembled not from shock but because, over the sound of the guns, he was still able to hear sonatas, symphonies, and songs.†   (source)
  • From inside, she could hear the soft sounds of the piano, and she recognized the sonata by Edvard Grieg in E minor.†   (source)
  • No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven's Ninth, Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Beatles' White Album?†   (source)
  • For the first time since the day I left my house humming a Haydn sonata with the world at my feet, I feel certain of something.†   (source)
  • He might have experienced passion and catharsis in the works of Tchaikovsky or felt a sense of accomplishment when he'd written sonatas of his own, but he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape.†   (source)
  • The day evil found me, I was wearing a pink silk blouse with pearl buttons and a white eyelet skirt that came all the way down to my knees and was walking to school to record a Haydn sonata for my conservatory audition.†   (source)
  • The three of them had soaked themselves in The Meaning of Love and The Kreutzer Sonata and had a mania for preaching chastity.†   (source)
  • There was to be a first performance of a violin sonata by a young composer, a pupil of Taneiev's, and a trio by Tchaikovsky.†   (source)
  • When he returned for it he heard, to his relief and surprise, the tinkling of a Mozart Sonata.†   (source)
  • So Swann was not mistaken in believing that the phrase of the sonata did, really, exist.†   (source)
  • And he insisted that signs of this could be detected in certain passages in the sonata.†   (source)
  • In the drawing-room Lucy was tinkling at a Mozart Sonata.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether you heard the way he lectured her the other evening about Vinteuil's sonata.†   (source)
  • He stepped into the drawing-room, where Lucy was still attentively pursuing the Sonatas of Mozart.†   (source)
  • Not the sonata-snake, I hope!" shouted M. de Forcheville, hoping to create an effect.†   (source)
  • "D'you want me to play the phrase from the sonata for M. Swann?" asked the pianist.†   (source)
  • "Isn't he charming?" she asked Swann, "doesn't he just understand it, his sonata, the little wretch?†   (source)
  • Katya pulled out Mozart's Sonata-Fantasia in C minor.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure M. Swann has never heard the sonata in F sharp which we discovered; he is going to play us the pianoforte arrangement."†   (source)
  • But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and Lucy had decided that they should triumph.†   (source)
  • Children, most astute of match-makers, plot their campaigns quickly, and Sally had played a clever correspondence sonata to Isabelle's excitable temperament.†   (source)
  • This was followed by a Grieg sonata—salon music of a Nordic nature, which met with polite applause, even from the costumed and uncostumed patients seated now, bottles in ice-buckets at their sides, at the two bridge tables that had been set up.†   (source)
  • "I've read 'Anna Karenina' and the 'Kreutzer Sonata' of course, but Tolstoi is mostly in the original Russian as far as I'm concerned."†   (source)
  • He could not sleep, so he turned on his reading-lamp and, taking down the "Kreutzer Sonata," searched it carefully for the germs of Burne's enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • "How delicate those Sonatas are!" said Mr. Beebe, though at the bottom of his heart, he thought them silly little things.†   (source)
  • And before Swann had had time to understand what was happening, to think: "It is the little phrase from Vinteuil's sonata.†   (source)
  • He would be welcomed by the little phrase from the sonata, played in the garden on the restaurant piano.†   (source)
  • But you don't dare to confess that you don't know Vinteuil's sonata; you have no right not to know it!†   (source)
  • Swann discovered no more than that the recent publication of Vinteuil's sonata had caused a great stir among the most advanced school of musicians, but that it was still unknown to the general public.†   (source)
  • He could see the pianist sitting down to play the Moonlight Sonata, and the grimaces of Mme. Verdurin, in terrified anticipation of the wrecking of her nerves by Beethoven's music.†   (source)
  • But none of these people who professed to admire this musician (when Swann had said that the sonata was really charming Mme. Verdurin had exclaimed, "I quite believe it!†   (source)
  • There were in this passage some admirable ideas which Swann had not distinguished on first hearing the sonata, and which he now perceived, as if they had, in the cloakroom of his memory, divested themselves of their uniform disguise of novelty.†   (source)
  • The Verdurins had spoken only in whispers, and in vague terms, but the painter, perhaps without thinking, shouted out: "There must be no lights of any sort, and he must play the Moonlight Sonata in the dark, for us to see by."†   (source)
  • It appeared to them, when the pianist played his sonata, as though he were striking haphazard from the piano a medley of notes which bore no relation to the musical forms to which they themselves were accustomed, and that the painter simply flung the colours haphazard upon his canvas.†   (source)
  • And if that should be so, I swear there's no known or unknown form of torture I wouldn't undergo to get the old fool to introduce me to the man who composed the sonata; starting with the torture of the old fool's company, which would be ghastly."†   (source)
  • Then he asked for some information about this Vinteuil; what else he had done, and at what period in his life he had composed the sonata;—what meaning the little phrase could have had for him, that was what Swann wanted most to know.†   (source)
  • It was as at the first beginning of the world, as if there were not yet but these twain upon the earth, or rather in this world closed against all the rest, so fashioned by the logic of its creator that in it there should never be any but themselves; the world of this sonata.†   (source)
  • But now, at last, he could ask the name of his fair unknown (and was told that it was the andante movement of Vinteuil's sonata for the piano and violin), he held it safe, could have it again to himself, at home, as often as he would, could study its language and acquire its secret.†   (source)
  • But little did that matter to him; he looked upon the sonata less in its own light—as what it might express, had, in fact, expressed to a certain musician, ignorant that any Swann or Odette, anywhere in the world, existed, when he composed it, and would express to all those who should hear it played in centuries to come—than as a pledge, a token of his love, which made even the Verdurins and their little pianist think of Odette and, at the same time, of himself—which bound her to him…†   (source)
  • "No, no, no, not my sonata!" she screamed, "I don't want to be made to cry until I get a cold in the head, and neuralgia all down my face, like last time; thanks very much, I don't intend to repeat that performance; you are all very kind and considerate; it is easy to see that none of you will have to stay in bed, for a week."†   (source)
  • …between the five notes which composed it and to the constant repetition of two of them that was due that impression of a frigid, a contracted sweetness; but in reality he knew that he was basing this conclusion not upon the phrase itself, but merely upon certain equivalents, substituted (for his mind's convenience) for the mysterious entity of which he had become aware, before ever he knew the Verdurins, at that earlier party, when for the first time he had heard the sonata played.†   (source)
  • …that, when the phrase at last was finished, and only its fragmentary echoes floated among the subsequent themes which had already taken its place, if Swann at first was annoyed to see the Comtesse de Monteriender, famed for her imbecilities, lean over towards him to confide in him her impressions, before even the sonata had come to an end; he could not refrain from smiling, and perhaps also found an underlying sense, which she was incapable of perceiving, in the words that she used.†   (source)
  • …when he composed it, and would express to all those who should hear it played in centuries to come—than as a pledge, a token of his love, which made even the Verdurins and their little pianist think of Odette and, at the same time, of himself—which bound her to him by a lasting tie; and at that point he had (whimsically entreated by Odette) abandoned the idea of getting some 'professional' to play over to him the whole sonata, of which he still knew no more than this one passage.†   (source)
  • And yet, when the 'faithful' were scattered out of earshot, the Doctor felt that the opportunity was too good to be missed, and so (while Mme. Verdurin was adding a final word of commendation of Vinteuil's sonata) like a would-be swimmer who jumps into the water, so as to learn, but chooses a moment when there are not too many people looking on: "Yes, indeed; he's what they call a musician di primo cartello!" he exclaimed, with a sudden determination.†   (source)
  • Inasmuch as the public cannot recognise the charm, the beauty, even the outlines of nature save in the stereotyped impressions of an art which they have gradually assimilated, while an original artist starts by rejecting those impressions, so M. and Mme. Cottard, typical, in this respect, of the public, were incapable of finding, either in Vinteuil's sonata or in Biche's portraits, what constituted harmony, for them, in music or beauty in painting.†   (source)
  • He would find, lying open on the piano, some of her favourite music, the Valse des Roses, the Pauvre Fou of Tagliafico (which, according to the instructions embodied in her will, was to be played at her funeral); but he would ask her, instead, to give him the little phrase from Vinteuil's sonata.†   (source)
  • When Odette ceased to be for him a creature always absent, regretted, imagined; when the feeling that he had for her was no longer the same mysterious disturbance that was wrought in him by the phrase from the sonata, but constant affection and gratitude, when those normal relations were established between them which would put an end to his melancholy madness; then, no doubt, the actions of Odette's daily life would appear to him as being of but little intrinsic interest—as he had…†   (source)
  • For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written language, is a proof of insanity, so insanity diagnosed in a sonata seemed to him as mysterious a thing as the insanity of a dog or a horse, although instances may be observed of these.†   (source)
  • …his malady that he begins to envisage the possibility, hitherto beyond all hope, of starting to lead—and better late than never—a wholly different life, Swann found in himself, in the memory of the phrase that he had heard, in certain other sonatas which he had made people play over to him, to see whether he might not, perhaps, discover his phrase among them, the presence of one of those invisible realities in which he had ceased to believe, but to which, as though the music had had…†   (source)
  • The window's were open, and Jo, walking in the garden with Beth, for once understood music better than her sister, for he played the 'Sonata Pathetique', and played it as he never did before.†   (source)
  • From the far side of the house through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty times repeated—of a sonata by Dussek.†   (source)
  • What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some "desirable" young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs?†   (source)
  • Glorvina, a very handsome, fresh-coloured, black-haired, blue-eyed young lady, who could ride a horse, or play a sonata with any girl out of the County Cork, seemed to be the very person destined to insure Dobbin's happiness—much more than that poor good little weak-spur'ted Amelia, about whom he used to take on so.†   (source)
  • When she had finished the sonata, Katya without taking her hands from the keys, asked, 'Is that enough?'†   (source)
  • Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic.†   (source)
  • They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata.†   (source)
  • How she had to work and thrum at these duets and sonatas in the Street, before they appeared in public in the Square!†   (source)
  • Arkady declared that he could not venture to trouble her again, and began talking to her about Mozart; he asked her whether she had chosen that sonata herself, or some one had recommended it to her.†   (source)
  • What is there in a pair of pink cheeks and blue eyes forsooth? these dear Moralists ask, and hint wisely that the gifts of genius, the accomplishments of the mind, the mastery of Mangnall's Questions, and a ladylike knowledge of botany and geology, the knack of making poetry, the power of rattling sonatas in the Herz-manner, and so forth, are far more valuable endowments for a female, than those fugitive charms which a few years will inevitably tarnish.†   (source)
  • She sat upright and immovable, her eyes fixed on the notes, and her lips tightly compressed, only at the end of the sonata her face glowed, her hair came loose, and a little lock fell on to her dark brow.†   (source)
  • Arkady was particularly struck by the last part of the sonata, the part in which, in the midst of the bewitching gaiety of the careless melody, the pangs of such mournful, almost tragic suffering, suddenly break in….†   (source)
  • He was not bored with her; she offered of herself to repeat the sonata of the day before; but when Madame Odintsov came back at last, when he caught sight of her, he felt an instantaneous pang at his heart.†   (source)
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