cadenza

• The matter is this: I have just added a tremendous cadenza, three pages long, in small notes, and anentire Coda, almost as long, to Beethoven's "Adelaide". —  Letters
• When he came to a pause for the introduction of a cadenza, at rehearsal, the musicians would frequently rise, eager to watch his performance, but Paganini would merely play a few notes, and then stopping suddenly would smile and say, “Et cetera, messieurs!” and reserve his strength for the public performance. —  Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
• The concluding cadenza, that twirling line, reads plainly "Frederic Chopin." —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
• The word cadenza, Hoffman explains, comes from the word cadence - a closing sequence in a piece of music. —  NPR Topics: News
• Thus the cadenza is the only thing left to the lovers of pure music, the devotees of unfettered art. —  Massimilla Doni

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