magistral

Example Sentences

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In the quartet, his magistral work, the Hebraic element is only one of several.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

If he was less accomplished, less resourceful and magistral an artist than Strawinsky, for instance, whom he resembles in a certain general way, he was at least a more human, a more passionate being.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

In itself it can hardly be termed a magistral work, inasmuch as all the theories enunciated in it are, at least, twenty years old, and appear to us to-day quite worn out and decrepit.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

The rhythmic element, already fresh and free in the scherzo of "L'Oiseau de feu" and throughout "Petruchka," attains virile and magistral might in it, surges and thunders with giant vigor.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

He had the honor and glory of introducing into Holland the "procede magistral" of Rubens and his school.

From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton