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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A musical work, usually instrumental, suitable for performance in a concert.

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Examples

  • I would not allow myself to be lured again; it was necessary for me to know at last, if indeed it were possible to attain that which, disappointed as I had always been by places and people, I had (in spite of a concert-piece by Vinteuil which had seemed to say the contrary) believed unrealisable.

    Time Regained 2003

  • The scene and air in which she does this ( "Abscheulicher! wo eilst du hin?") is now a favorite concert-piece of all dramatic singers; but when it was written its difficulties seemed appalling to Fräulein Milder (afterward the famous Frau Milder-Hauptmann), who was the original Leonore.

    A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

  • The promised concert-piece, Op. 46, had to my inexpressible delight been published.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • On parting he presented me with the two manuscripts of his C sharp major and E major studies (dedicated to Liszt), and promised to write during his stay in the country a concert-piece and dedicate it to me.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • It is a five-page concert-piece, equal to ten or twelve pages of piano-music.

    Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867

  • Best thanks for kindly sending me the Russian "Fantasie" by Naprawnik ” a brilliantly successful concert-piece ” and the Slumber Songs by Rimsky-Korsakoff, which I prize extremely; his works are among the rare, the uncommon, the exquisite. ”

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • The tribute of applause which the public paid to this clever artist was very great; the concert-piece with orchestra (the

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

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