pianoforti

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English

Pronunciation

  • Anglicised: IPA(key): /pi.a.nəʊˈfɔːɹ.ti/
  • Italiphone: IPA(key): /pi.a.nɒˈfɒɹ.ti/

Noun

pianoforti

  1. plural of pianoforte Another word for the word 'pianos'.
    • 1850, Charles Dickens, Household Words: A Weekly Journal, page 470:
      He has played the grandest of grand sonatas and symphonies on the grandest of pianoforti
    • 1941, Trade Promotion Series, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 116:
      Private persons and companies possessing, as owners or otherwise, pianos (pianoforti) and billiard tables (bigliardi) for their own use are subject to tax thereon.
    • 1968, Polish Music, Polish Music III №1 (8), page 38:
      …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.
    • 1990, Alan J Day, Verena Hoffman, The Annual Register of World Events: A Record of World Events 1989, page 100:
      The year will be marked with a white stone by the lovers of pianoforti music.
    • 1997, Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, page 366:
      …to introduce the concerts at which he and his son Sviatoslav (Soulima) gave the initial performances of the Concerto per due pianoforti soli…

Italian

Noun

pianoforti m

  1. plural of pianoforte