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Music

Capriccio (music) A capriccio or caprice (sometimes plural: ''caprices'', ''capri'' or, in Italian, ''capricci''), is a piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character. The typical capriccio is one that is fast, intense, and often virtuosic in ...

, a piece of music which is fairly free in form *

Fantasia in C major (Haydn) Fantasia in C major, Hob. XVII/4, "''Capriccio''", was written by Joseph Haydn. It is based on the Austrian folk song ' ("The farmer's wife has lost her cat"). In March 1789, he wrote to the publishing company Artaria, saying, "In a moment of gre ...

, "Capriccio", a 1789 piano composition by Joseph Haydn *

Capriccio (Janáček) 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 ...

, a chamber music composition by Leoš Janáček * Capriccio, a 1929 composition for piano and orchestra by

Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century clas ...

* ''Capriccio'' (opera), a 1942 opera by Richard Strauss *

Capriccio (record label) Capriccio is a formerly German, now Austrian, classical music record label. The original Capriccio label was founded in the 1980s and was until 2010 part of Delta-Music GmbH a German record company located in Großkönigsdorf, Frechen near Colo ...

, an Austrian classical music record label

Films

* ''Capriccio'' (1938 film), a German historical comedy * ''Capriccio'' (1972 film), by

Carmelo Bene Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, known as Carmelo Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002), was an Italian actor, poet, film director and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian experimental theatre, avant-garde thea ...

* ''Capriccio'' (1987 film), by Tinto Brass

Other uses

Capriccio (art) 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 fant ...

, in painting an architectural fantasy * ''Capriccio'' (Rex Whistler), a 1936-1938 mural by Rex Whistler at Plas Newydd, Anglesey * ''Capriccio'', a collection of poems by

Ted Hughes Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...

published in 1990 * ''Capriccio'' (manga volume), a volume of the manga series ''One Piece'' released in 2003

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