sinfonian.

1773 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy (ed. 2) 382 I heard a sinfonia or overture and a chorus..which were excellent.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 87/1 The sinfonia or overture which is often associated with his [sc. Scarlatti's] name.

1818 W. Gardner tr. ‘L. Bombet’ Lives Haydn & Mozart 256 The sinfonia in The Creation, which represents the rising of the sun, is an exemplification of this theory.

1828 E. Holmes Ramble among Musicians Germany 180 The composition given this afternoon was Mozart's Jupiter sinfonia.

1924 A. Ham Outl. Mus. Form xix. 82 An Overture..is an expansion of the Sinfonia or Symphony.

1946 David & Mendel Bach Reader i. 39 Neither the Inventions and the Sinfonias nor the two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier..were printed during Bach's lifetime.

1967 I. Spink Hist. Approach Mus. Form iii. 98 These operas were not in recitative throughout. They also included choruses, dances and instrumental pieces or sinfonie.

1976 Leicester Mercury 16 July He had recently contacted about 60 top class instrumentalists..with the intention of forming an orchestra which..would be called the Rutland Sinfonia.

1903 R. Hughes Mus. Guide I. 266/2 S. concertan'te, concerta′ta, concertate…concerto for many instrs., a concerto symphony.

1928 Musical Times Feb. 165/1 M. Ansermet..conducted William Walton's new ‘Sinfonia Concertante’ for orchestra and pianoforte.

1945 A. Mendel & N. Broder tr. A. Einstein Mozart xvi. 274 Mozart cultivated this form less and less as the years went on. He abandoned the sinfonia concertante, and separated its ingredients.

1950 R. Hughes Haydn vii. 80 At the fourth concert on 9th March [1792] the endearing Sinfonia concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon was performed for the first time.

1959 Times 18 Dec. 5/5 Mozart's sinfonia concertante for violin and viola, arguably the greatest of his concertos.

1979 Early Music 7 415/2 Clarinettists will find in the E flat Symphony by the Earl of Kelly..what amounts to a sinfonia concertante.