maestoso

[ mahy-stoh-soh; Italian mah-es-taw-saw ]

adjective

1. with majesty; stately (used as a musical direction).

maestoso

/ maɪˈstəʊsəʊ /

adjective

1. to be performed majestically

noun

1. a piece or passage directed to be played in this way

Word History and Origins

Origin of maestoso¹

1715–25; < Italian: stately, majestic, equivalent to maest ( à ) (< Latin mājestās majesty ) + -oso -ose ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of maestoso¹

C18: Italian: majestic, from Latin māiestās majesty

Example Sentences

And in the start of the Rimsky-Korsakov on Thursday — this movement marked “maestoso,” or majestically — the huge brass statements burst out with saber-rattling strength but little majesty.

From New York Times

Kogan certainly made an excitingly cogent case for it, pressing the tempos forward urgently, letting it get wild and woolly in the right convulsive spots, with all heroic flags waving in the final Maestoso section.

From Los Angeles Times

But rather than the heavy-handed monumentality favored by so many accounts several decades ago — which exaggerate the “majestic” in the composer’s directive “un poco maestoso” — Morlot elicited a revelatory transparency of texture in the first movement.

From Seattle Times

A few days later she was in the Upper East Side studio of two New Yorkers, Dalila Ercolani and Marco Maestoso, eating grilled skirt steak and macaroni and cheese for dinner, and laughing with three other locals and two travelers from Chicago.

From Seattle Times

In fact, Ercolani and Maestoso, who host three to four meals a week through Feastly, are considering making it their full-time job.

From Seattle Times