capriccio

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Finally, Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos appeared and gave the downbeat, and the perplexed audience settled down to the first U.S. performance of Ferruccio Busoni's "theatrical capriccio," Harlequin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Glazunof's Third Symphony; Rachmaninof's capriccio "Tzigane"; and Scriabin's Pianoforte Concerto with the composer as soloist, given by the Russian Symphony Orchestra, in New York City. 1906-7.

From Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Lahee, Henry Charles

This is not the kind of prelude to pass from one key to another, but merely a capriccio to try over a piano.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig

So I played softly and voluptuously, till my scanty repertory was exhausted, and then drifted into a tender capriccio.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

This is not too fast for the capriccio, with its pretty and ingenious rhythmical transformations.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James