Lexicographical Neighbors of Improvisor
Literary usage of Improvisor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The protection of his patron, the Elector Maximilian, brother of Joseph II, and
his striking gifts as player and improvisor served to secure for him, ..."
2. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"On this evening Beethoven appeared before the public not only as a composer, but
also as conductor, pianist and improvisor. Friend Roeckel was not only to ..."
3. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"I presume, however, that the improvisor 'was now more respectful in his allusions.
We left before sunrise the next morning, deferring breakfast until our ..."
4. The Makers of English Fiction by William James Dawson (1905)
"His mind is not fecund, not rapid; the careless ease of the great improvisor is
unknown to him. He struggles for expression; his ideas come to birth by ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1904)
"... Russia under his direction, it is still as an improvisor of the unusual and
the fantastic, of a purely theatrical civilisation having no basis in fact, ..."
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