Sentence examples for early piano from inspiring English sources

Young Mayall learned early: piano, guitar and mouth harp.

He began with Berg's compact, single-movement, texturally dense early Piano Sonata, Op. 1.

The first two were written in 1796, when Beethoven was producing his breakthrough early piano sonatas.

Mr. Feltsman performs and discusses early piano works of Strauss an hour before each concert.

She remembered her early piano lessons, and her cousin Boris, who walked her home afterwards.

The concerto, like Brahms's early piano pieces, points to a kind of anger and inner compression in the man.

The modern piano has a cast-iron frame capable of withstanding the tremendous tension of the strings; early pianos had wood frames and thus could only be lightly strung.

"Intermezzo" was one of the earliest piano ballets, created the same year as Robbins's epochal "Dances at a Gathering".

Included as well is an earlier piano dazzler, the "Etude Fantasy," composed for James Tocco in 1976 and given an electrifying reading by Mr. Tocco here.

Shostakovich, who had composed an earlier piano trio as a teenager, was shaken during the creation of his second by the sudden death of the musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky, an early and steadfast supporter, in 1944.

Its title -- the name of a scraped percussion instrument -- it shares with a much earlier piano piece by this composer, but now the abrasions are often powerful pitched sonorities being drawn by the four bows together.