Word: impromptus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollars they appraised it, then found a pile of unpublished manuscripts and added two dollars more. But that was in 1828. Since then the world has added to the list-some 600 songs, and masses, cantatas, motets, hymns, operas and fragments of operas, piano sonatas, impromptus, dances and marches, string quartets, the bulk of ten symphonies...
Like most impromptus, an international exposition of music which opened and held forth in Geneva, Switzerland, last fortnight without the elaborate preliminaries that usually precede international events, was hailed across Europe as something which must be often repeated, whatever it may next time lack of spontaneity...