All four musicians in the quartet were virtuosi so the performance was outstanding. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a virtuoso performance. From Dictionary.com.
Greek architecture was discovered in the second half of the eighteenth century, it became the shibboleth of the 'virtuosi'. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Most of the men described as virtuosi by. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Gassendi, Boyle and the “virtuosi” of the seventeenth century join hands. From Wordnik.com. [BACONIANISM] Reference
Her father was on friendly terms with many musicians and often hosted visiting virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [Sophie Braslau.] Reference
Henry Peacham whose Complete Gentleman (1634) became a sort of handbook to the virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [VIRTUOSO] Reference
The former receives the thanks of mankind; the latter of that valuable part, the virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon] Reference
Louis XIV., as well as so many other virtuosi, was witness of all the acts attributed to one of these. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
There were not, at large, many criminal virtuosi of the combination lock who would be equal to this one. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
The virtuosi of the Royal Society, purporting to put into practice (but not always with success) their motto. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Without the help and technical prowess of three virtuosi, my DNC coverage on this blog would not have been possible. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-10] Reference
My father often visited me in my shop, and was pleased to see the concourse of virtuosi and customers of both sexes. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
No criminals, exactly, but I did have an ancestor who was one of the great violin virtuosi of the nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Robert Boyle, for example, frequently called himself and his fellow - workers “virtuosi,” and one of his works was named. From Wordnik.com. [VIRTUOSO] Reference
In the old days, touring virtuosi were stars who could command large audiences and paydays with the power of their personalities. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem] Reference
Music was merely one of its wider highways, yet it invented operas, virtuosi, concertos, sonatas, guitars, violins and orchestras. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
What the virtuosi of the late 18th and early 19th centuries gained, he writes, "was at the expense (in all senses) of the mighty.". From Wordnik.com. [Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote] Reference
James's son, Prince Henry, who died in 1612 at the age of eighteen, had been well on the way to becoming the leader of the virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [VIRTUOSO] Reference
"He belongs," said The London Times, "to that great company of virtuosi around whose names legends have grown in the course of history.". From Wordnik.com. [The Concert Hall as an Artistic Instrument] Reference
SFO's former musical director interpreted and steered Wagner's sublime score precisely and transparently, with an orchestra of virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [What Staging Can Do, for Good or Ill] Reference
Così operarono tanti gentili virtuosi; così operano ancora molti tra i cristiani, chi servendo la patria, chi esercitando la giustizia, chi vivendo vita temperante. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Scientific innovators, like musical virtuosi, have often been shockingly youthful; two at least were abruptly cut off as they were in the process of reconstructing the universe. From Wordnik.com. [What is the Best Age to Create Your Masterpiece? | Impact Lab] Reference
But I must not blame the virtuosi, having surpassed them. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
The most distinguished virtuosi frequently executed them. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Chopin] Reference
Each of these virtuosi had a different approach to it all. From Wordnik.com. [Edmonton Sun] Reference
This concert's three virtuosi showed us why nothing trumps a live music experience. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The decayed professors, virtuosi, litterateurs, and artists thronged to the place en masse. From Wordnik.com. [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference
Students flock to conservatories and graduate with skills once possessed only by a few virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference
As far as the piano arrangement goes, i was aiming for simplicity rather than virtuosi playing. From Wordnik.com. [Studio-Central Community] Reference
Foreign Bodies and Insomnia are very physical in expression, highly charged, pulsating virtuosi works. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome] Reference
Cuomo was grand opera and Obama was the rebirth of the cool, a jazz formalist, but both were virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Magazine] Reference
A high demand will always raise the price, as when, for instance, two wealthy virtuosi compete at an auction. From Wordnik.com. [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference
Medal of our white-shirted academies, but she had enough temperament to make half a dozen Steinway Hall virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
But the conversation of the two virtuosi turned on a subject very different from that which Miss Wardour apprehended. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference
The career of another striking figure of the Nineteenth Century was ended by the death of Paganini, the most remarkable of violin virtuosi. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference
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