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Virtuosi

Virtuoso \Vir`tu*o"so\, n.; pl. Virtuosos; It. Virtuosi.

  1. One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

    Virtuoso the Italians call a man who loves the noble arts, and is a critic in them.
    --Dryden.

  2. (Mus.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.

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virtuosi

n. (plural of virtuoso English)

WordNet
virtuoso
  1. adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance" [syn: consummate, masterful, masterly, virtuoso(a)]

  2. n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]

  3. a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry

  4. [also: virtuosi (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Virtuosi (album)

Virtuosi is an album by drummer Barry Altschul, pianist Paul Bley and bassist Gary Peacock recorded in 1967 and released on Bley's own Improvising Artists label in 1976.

Usage examples of "virtuosi".

In these entertainments the greatest virtuosi were heard, the most popular and best singers, and the newest and best music.

In Fusignano, near Imola, was born in 1653 Archangelo Corelli, who became the first of violin virtuosi, and the first of composers for the instrument, and for violins in combination with other members of the same family, and so of our string quartette.

Scarlatti and Rameau, the four great virtuosi of the beginning of this century, generally preferred the older forms of the instrument, the clavier or the harpsichord, both on account of their more agreeable touch and the sweetness of their tones.

In his own playing he was far in advance of the virtuosi of the eighteenth century, and in his foresight of farther possibilities in the direction of tone sustaining and coloration he went still farther.

He was the first of the virtuosi who placed the piano sideways upon the platform, although the later ones may not have had an interesting profile to exhibit.

There have been two great virtuosi in orchestration, during this century, who have exercised as great an influence in this complicated and elaborate department, as the others mentioned have upon their own solo instruments.

Vienna, where he appeared in two concerts, and to his own surprise was pronounced one of the greatest virtuosi of the day.

So difficult and so strange were these works, that for nearly a generation the more difficult ones of them were a sealed book to amateur pianists, and even virtuosi like Moscheles declare that they could never get their fingers reliably through them.

Besides these operatic performances and his symphony concerts, he gathered about him a succession of young virtuosi pianists.

The chapter that reveals most of Huneker is the appendix on latter-day piano virtuosi, with its estimates of such men as de Pachmann, Rosenthal, Paderewski and Hofmann.

A confusion of languages, such as some of our modern Virtuosi used to express themselves in.

Bonum is such a kind of animal as our modern virtuosi from Don Quixote will have windmills under sail to be.

The decayed professors, virtuosi, litterateurs, and artists thronged to the place en masse.

Most virtuosi gave a lot of solo concerts, leaning heavily on the ancient piano repertoire interlarded with one-man assaults on orchestral favorites.

It was played by a string of virtuosi in an almost unbroken line from Monteverdi to Paganini and beyond.