cadenza

• The cadenza was his own—of course—and embellished with impossible glissandi. —  June, 1943
• After the cadenza, built on a figure of wavering tonality, a valse-like theme emerges and enjoys a capricious, butterfly existence. —  Chopin: The Man and His Music
• Richard Burmeister has supplied the latter deficiency in a capitally made cadenza, which Paderewski plays. —  Chopin: The Man and His Music
• The concluding cadenza, that twirling line, reads plainly "Frederic Chopin." —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 2
• 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

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