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An impromptu (meaning something like "offhand") is a free-form musical composition with the character of an improvisation, usually for a solo instrument, such as piano. The first recorded use of the term ''impromptu'' in this sense occurred in 1817 , in the ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'', an idea of the publisher to describe a piano piece by Vořišek . It didn't take long before the first generation of Romantic composers took up the idea:
The impromptu genre remained popular all throughout the 19th Century . In the 20th century there are fewer examples of composers naming their compositions "Impromptu", e.g.:
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