mazurka

She trifled away half an hour at the piano; and played, in that time, selections from the Songs of Mendelssohn, the Mazurkas of Chopin, the Operas of Verdi, and the Sonatas of Mozart -- all of whom had combined together on this occasion and produced one immortal work, entitled "Frank." She closed the piano and went up to her room, to dream away the hours luxuriously in visions of her married future.

He taught certain uncouth lads, when they were of an age to enter society, the intricacies of contra dances, or the steps of the schottische and mazurka, and he was a marked figure in all social assemblies, though conspicuously absent from town-meetings and the purely masculine gatherings at the store or tavern or bridge.

The week before, Kitty had told her mother of a conversation she had with Vronsky during a mazurka. This conversation had partly reassured the princess; but perfectly at ease she could not be.

He led the mazurka at the Arkharovs' ball, talked about the war with Field Marshal Kamenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a colonel of forty to whom Denisov had introduced

The piano at the foot of the staircase clanged through a mazurka with brazen impetuosity, as though a vulgar and impudent ghost were showing off.

he danced the mazurka with me and wanted to make me an offer next day; but I thanked him in flattering expressions and told him that my heart had long been another's.

(10) Although somewhat of an exaggeration-Clara perhaps would have been aware of the Polish Composer Maria Szymanowska (1790-1832), whose mazurkas may have influenced hers of Opus 6-this quote is indicative of what feminist scholars have referred to as the silent eraser of history: obviously there were women composers before Clara Wieck Schumann, but she would not have been privy to that validated acknowledgment.

Recent releases include two albums of the complete Chopin Waltzes & Etudes (Brilliant Classics), the Complete Chopin Mazurkas (Aevea), the Complete Piano / String works of Taneyev (Aevea), the Complete Piano Works of Reynaldo Hahn (Aevea), the Complete Violin Sonatas of Edvard Grieg (Aevea), the Complete Works for Piano and Cello of Martucci (Tactus), Schumann Works for Piano (Academy / Artalinna), Bach: The Seven Toccatas (Piano Classics), and a double CD recording of works by Federico Mompou (Brilliant Classics).

"No sooner had I moved into [the] bungalow than I slid behind the keys," playing "a couple of mazurkas by Chopin" (p.

From the mazurkas of Coppelia to the flamenco of Don Quixote, Marius Petipa used character dances to give his ballets a sense of place and personality.

40 [beaucoup plus grand que] et [beaucoup moins que] 4 Mazurkas, op 17 [beaucoup plus grand que] de Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) etalant un jeu empreint de rapidite et de precision, avec une main gauche epoustouflante, avant d'accompagner sa compatriote Katarzyna Duda qui a fait montre, elle aussi, de maitrise technique avec notamment des solos de violon a deux voix.