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cadenza
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cadenza
a virtuoso solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music, formerly improvised by the soloist but now usually specially composed


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Friesenhagen and Ulrich Mazurowicz; Cadenzas by Kurt Gunmer.
Students compete for standard baroque through contemporary repertory prizes, as well as in novel categories, such as original concerto cadenzas, jazz or classical improvisation, versatility, lyricism in slow works, original compositions, works by female composers, and tasteful arrangements or transcriptions.
Once such sounds were in the crowd's head, Fischer engineered something of a shotgun wedding, uniting the Philharmonic first with Okros, improvising cadenzas in Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.
 
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