impromptus

• We move from the concert hall to the Romantic salon for disc two, opening with the four Chopin impromptus (1835-1843), including the —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
• The audience applauded very much, after the fashion of those impromptus which are made à loisir_, and I could not but fancy that a good portion of the assembly began to think the Academy was what the cockneys call a rum place, before they heard the last of it. —  Recollections of Europe
• M. Fouquet's friends had transported thither, some their actors and their dresses, others their troops of sculptors and artists; not forgetting others with their ready-mended pens--floods of impromptus were contemplated. —  The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After"
• For the impromptus alone he has found no name and says of them: "To write of the four impromptus in their own key of unrestrained feeling and pondered intention would not be as easy as recapturing the first 'careless rapture of the lark Unquestionably the poetry of Chopin is of the most exquisite lyric character, his leadership is supreme. —  For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
• Students are kept writing up their notes of his not very brilliant impromptus, and familiarizing themselves with his mental constitution instead of the subject of study. —  Mankind in the Making

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