What is "furioso"

Furioso \Fu"ri*o"so\, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) With great force or vigor; vehemently.

adv. (context music English) To be played rapidly and with passion.

Furioso was an influential sire of jumping horses, and is found in the pedigrees of many top show jumpers today.

Furioso is the second studio album by the German technical death metal band Pavor.

Furioso (Italian: "madman"; Spanish: "angry") can refer to:

• Furioso-North Star, or simply Furioso, a Hungarian breed of warmblood horse founded by the stallions Furioso (b. 1836) and North Star
• Furioso, a Thoroughbred foaled in 1939 who became an influential sire of show jumpers
• Furioso II, an Oldenburger stallion foaled in 1965 noted as a sire of Dressage horses

• Il Furioso, a nickname for the Italian painter Tintoretto

• Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo, a melodramma by Gaetano Donizetti
• Orlando Furioso, an epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto.
  • Orlando furioso (Vivaldi) is an opera by Vivaldi based upon the poem
• Bombastes Furioso, subtitled A Burlesque Tragic Opera, was a comic opera written in 1810 by William Barnes Rhodes
• Furioso (album) is the second studio album by the German technical death metal band Pavor

• Furioso, a literary magazine published intermittently by James Jesus Angleton and Reed Whittemore from 1940 until 1953.