- n. Plural form of impromptu. “I suspect a good many
"impromptus" could tell just such a story as the above.” “The
telegraph is good for that, if not for anything else: it
facilitates 'impromptus'. ” “His Jewishness is long marinated in
Schubert impromptus and described as intellectually "ritzy".”
“It is Schubert, a really great melody there, one of his
impromptus, and it's played by Imogen Cooper, a British
pianist.” “But as with so much Schubert – you could choose from
the lieder, the piano sonatas, the exquisite impromptus – it's
the song-like tenderness of the music, and the way it breaks out
into turbulence, that brings the anguish on.” “First came the
four late impromptus of D. 935, published posthumously, spinning
their themes into long graceful chains of notes looping across
the keyboard like Italian opera arias.” “Many times these are
impromptus, non-planned discussions and activities.” “My taste
might be more vanilla than you're looking for, but I often study
listening to Chopin's nocturnes, Schube