improvisatore

In both types of private performances, the improvisatore or improvisatrice would still take suggestions for topics to perform on.

His reputation was in great measure due to his remarkable skill as an improvisatore and musician.

For many years, The Improvisatore was the most widely read of all of Andersen's works.

He published in 1821 The Improvisatore, which he afterwards endeavoured to suppress.

Esterhammer notes "available paradigms for representing the nineteenth-century improvisatore.

Shimon Barash was a fine improvisatore, though his gift has apparently faded since he defected to Australia.

Haar traces the figure of the improvisatore (the singular male form of "improvvisatori") back to the middle of the 14th century.

Castelo Branco is an admirable story-teller, largely because he was a brilliant improvisatore, but he does not attempt character study.

L'improvisadou (The Improvisatore)

Eventually an "improvisatore" - Karen Badalov, in a sensational performance - turns up and is asked to improvise this element of the Cleopatra legend.

In his story, a scruffy Neapolitan improvisatore breaks in on a Petersburg gentleman-poet in his study.

The physicist Masha, who lost her job because her husband, a Jewish improvisatore, wants to emigrate, has become a guide: "This is Russia, my dear!"

Unlike Pushkin's improvisatore, for whom there was 'no toil, no dearth, nor that unrest which is the prelude to inspiration', I had to prepare the way.

The same year, two short operettas with music by Edward Jakobowski, The Improvisatore and A Venetian Singer, made little impact.

Later on, at the evening Charsky organizes to introduce him into Petersburg society, the improvisatore begins a brilliant poem on the subject of "Cleopatra's Lovers."

In 102 BC, his reputation having been already established, especially as an improvisatore, he went to Rome, where he was well received amongst the highest and most influential families.

King Gustav III called Bellman "Il signor improvisatore" ('Master Improviser').

The stranger, it turns out, is an improvisatore - a performer who extemporizes verse on themes suggested by an audience - who has come to ask Charsky's help in acquiring patrons.

Deeply impressed with everything he experienced and influenced by Madame de Staël's "Corinne ou l'Italie", he began writing his travel tale, The Improvisatore.

Demonstrating his art, the improvisatore asks the Russian poet for a theme and the latter offers: "The poet himself should choose the subject of his songs; the crowd has no right to direct his inspiration."

Along the way, Mr. Thomas finds ample opportunity to show off his own artfulness as improvisatore, playwright, satirist and narrative poet in the style of, approximately, Pushkin, the inspiration for his brilliantly imagined world.

There is Shimon Barash, an idolized Soviet Jewish improvisatore (a teller of spontaneous tales, an art form that has been wittily improvised by Mr. Thomas), who would like nothing better than to get out of Russia.

During the first half of the 18th century, the French diplomat Charles de Brosses wrote about encountering a famous Florentine improvisatore named Bernardo Perfetti, and expressed admiration for Perfetti's ability to express "true feeling" in his extemporaneously-composed poetry.

What interests Mr. Thomas in the story, from the evidence of the novels, is the paradox on which it turns: the improvisatore stands for creativity in its most elemental form (inspiration), but at the same time the subject of his verses is always something given to him.

Rozanov improvises a tale about the even more lecherous and disreputable poet Victor Surkov, who improvises a continuation of "Egyptian Nights" in which the Italian improvisatore is challenged to a duel - which is prevented, however, by news of Pushkin's death.