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"Andante" Quotes from Famous Books

... musicians, causes us considerable embarras for words to describe. Who that heard it on Saturday last, has yet recovered the ravishing sensation produced by the thrilling tremour with which Rubini gave the Notte d'Orrore, in Rossini's "Marino Faliero?" Who can forget the recitativo con andante et allegro, in the last scene of "La Sonnambula;" or the burst of anguish con expressivissimo, when accused of treason, while personating his favourite role in "Lucia di Lammermoor?" Ah! those who suffered themselves to be detained from the opera on ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... melody, a rhythmic plaint. After this came a climax of devout triumph—passing from the subdued adoration of a happy Andante in ...

— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

... He was very glad to see me, and I him. His fine face lighted with enthusiasm as we spoke of music, of Germany and its poets. He played magnificently, among others "Adelaide," translated for the piano by Liszt, a beautiful andante of Chopin, some of Henselt, etc., until it was quite twilight. Then I went away. He promised to come and see me, nor shall I fail to see him as often as I think he will endure, though his days are so busy with teaching that I do not hope to find him ...

— Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke

Words linked to "Andante" : slow, opus, musical passage, piece, passage, pacing, composition, musical composition, tempo, piece of music, music