Meanings
- pluralplural of pianoforte Another word for the word 'pianos'.
The year will be marked with a white stone by the lovers of pianoforti music.
1990, Alan J Day, Verena Hoffman, The Annual Register of World Events: A Record of World Events 1989, page 1004 more examples
He has played the grandest of grand sonatas and symphonies on the grandest of pianoforti…
1850, Charles Dickens, Household Words: A Weekly Journal, page 470Private persons and companies possessing, as owners or otherwise, pianos (pianoforti) and billiard tables (bigliardi) for their own use are subject to tax thereon.
1941, Trade Promotion Series, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 116…3 oboi, 3 clarinetti in si bemol, 2 fagotti, 2 trombe in do, 2 corni in fa, 2 tromboni, Arpa, 2 pianoforti, and four greatly enlarged percussion groups.
1968, Polish Music, Polish Music III №1 (8), page 38…to introduce the concerts at which he and his son Sviatoslav (Soulima) gave the initial performances of the Concerto per due pianoforti soli…
1997, Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, page 366
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