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pianoforte

[pee-an-uh-fawrt, -fohrt, pee-an-uh-fawr-tee, -tey, -fohr-] / piˈæn əˌfɔrt, -ˌfoʊrt, piˌæn əˈfɔr ti, -teɪ, -ˈfoʊr- /


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“It’s not just about maximizing SALT,” said Rich Pianoforte, a managing director at Fiduciary Trust in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

The house, which faced one of the main roads leading out of the city, had a small plaque to the left of the front door: “Miss Lorna Middleton, Teacher of Pianoforte and Ballet.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

Fighting nausea all the way, he won England's important Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Ives's Second Pianoforte Sonata, almost entirely neglected since he completed it in 1915, got its first Manhattan performance at a recital by enterprising U. S. Pianist John Kirkpatrick.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet he grimly continued to compose, his last works being of titanic dimensions such as the Choral symphony, the Mass in D and the last Quartets and Pianoforte Sonatas.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond




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