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How is leidenschaftlich played?
The performer plays with fervour and emotional commitment, the German-language counterpart to the Italian appassionato. German and Austrian composers from the Romantic era onward often preferred their own language for expression marks, and leidenschaftlich appears in this tradition to ask for ardour and intensity. It frequently combines with other German directions to qualify mood or pacing. As a character word it governs affect and expressive weight rather than a fixed speed.
How does leidenschaftlich sound?
The music sounds impassioned and fervent, with a heightened emotional charge.
In context
Leidenschaftlich is defined in standard glossaries as 'passionately', the German equivalent of appassionato. It belongs to the German tradition of native-language expression marks rather than to a single canonical work.
Equivalent terms
- IT appassionato
- FR passionné
- EN passionate
- DA lidenskabeligt