Word: sostenuto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bartok Suite Op. 14 also did not lack spirit and whimsy. When violence was in order, as in the 'Scherzo,' Hellman supplied it. In the concluding 'Sostenuto,' he gleefully intercalated a grotesque, ponderous obbligato, while reviving the lyricism which so finely sculptured the Sarabande in the Bach...
...famous "Laugh, Falstaff" at the beginning of Act II is marked allegro sostenuto, but it is always sung exactly the reverse, staccato...