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What (who) is capriccio - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Capriccii; Capriccio (disambiguation); Capriccios; Capricci; Capriccio (film)
capriccio
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¦ noun (plural capriccios)
1. a lively piece of music, especially one that is short and free in form.
2. a painting representing a fantasy or a mixture of real and imaginary features.
Origin
C17 (in the sense 'caprice or capriciousness'): from Ital., lit. 'head with the hair standing on end', hence 'horror', later 'sudden start', from capo 'head' + riccio 'hedgehog'.
Capriccio (art)
![Capriccio, by [[Alessandro Salucci]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alessandro Salucci (Attr.) - Capriccio.jpg?width=200 "Capriccio, by [[Alessandro Salucci]]")
![pen and ink]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anthony Devis - An Italian Capriccio - 10654.jpg?width=200 "pen and ink]]")
![''Castle by a lake'' (1846), an ink and watercolour capriccio by [[Otto Reinhold Jacobi]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Castle by a lake - Otto Reinhold Jacobi - ref Jacobi-90456-18.jpg?width=200 "''Castle by a lake'' (1846), an ink and watercolour capriccio by [[Otto Reinhold Jacobi]]")
![[[Giovanni Battista Piranesi]], ''[[Le Carceri d'Invenzione]]'', 2nd edition, 1761, #5 ''The Lion Bas-Reliefs''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Le Carceri d'Invenzione - Second Edition - 1761 - 05 - The Lion Bas-Reliefs.jpg?width=200 "[[Giovanni Battista Piranesi]], ''[[Le Carceri d'Invenzione]]'', 2nd edition, 1761, #5 ''The Lion Bas-Reliefs''")
![Classical landscape with ruins, c. 1725, by [[Marco Ricci]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marco Ricci - A Classical Landscape with Ruins.jpg?width=200 "Classical landscape with ruins, c. 1725, by [[Marco Ricci]]")
![GB Tiepolo]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Woman and infant satyr in a landscape, the woman twisting to look over her left shoulder, a horned goat striding toward the background, from the series 'The Capricci' MET DP832513.jpg?width=200 "GB Tiepolo]]")
ARCHITECTURAL FANTASY IN PAINTING
Capriccio (painting)
In painting, a capriccio (, plural: capricci ; in older English works often anglicized as "caprice") means an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations. These paintings may also include staffage (figures).
Capriccio (Janáček)
MUSICAL COMPOSITION BY LEOŠ JANÁČEK
Capriccio (Janacek)
The Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Chamber Ensemble (sometimes titled Defiance, in Czech: Vzdor) is a composition by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. The work was written in the autumn of 1926 and is remarkable not just in the context of Janáček's output, but it also occupies an exceptional position in the literature written for piano played only by the left hand.
Examples of use of capriccio
1. The Korean artistes put on the stage the 4th movement "Glory to the General" of the symphonic suite "Long Journey for Songun Leadership", the orchestras "Arirang", "Rich Harvest Comes to the Chongsan Plain", Tchaikovsky‘s "Capriccio Italian ", the 1st movement of Shostakovich‘s 7th symphony "Leningrad" and other numbers.