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began publishing piano pieces under the (sub-)title of "impromptu." (AMZ, Mar. No II, 1815, col. 6), which seems to be the first recorded use of the term
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improvisation as if prompted by the spirit of the moment, usually for a solo instrument, such as piano. According to
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The impromptu genre remained popular all throughout the 19th century and was prominent throughout the romantic era.
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In the 20th century, there are also several examples of composers naming their compositions "Impromptu", such as:
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Since the very concept of unpremeditated, spur-of-the-moment inspiration without studied care is at the heart of
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composed two sets of four Impromptus, published as Op. 32 (No. 1 in 1848, and No. 2 in 1849).
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composed an Impromptu in F sharp (sometimes called Nocturne) and a piano piece named
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is known to have written at least nine impromptus for the piano in his early period.
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was the first one to compose impromptus published under that title, in 1822.
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and published in 1999. The first piece of the album is named
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Index

Impromptus
Impromptu (disambiguation)
/ɪmˈprɒmptj/
[ɛ̃pʁɔ̃pty]
ex tempore
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
Johann Baptist Cramer
Romantic artistic theory
Romantic
Frédéric Chopin
Impromptus
Fantaisie-Impromptu
Jan Václav Voříšek
Franz Schubert
Impromptus
Op. 90
Op. 142
Robert Schumann
Charles-Valentin Alkan
Franz Liszt
Valse-Impromptu
Alexander Scriabin
Jean Sibelius
Gabriel Fauré
Richard Rodney Bennett
guitar
Maurice Journeau
Donald Martino
Nikolai Kapustin
Lowell Liebermann

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