albumblatt

/ ˈælbəmˌblæt /

noun

1. music a short occasional instrumental composition, usually light in character

Word History and Origins

Origin of albumblatt¹

C19: German: album-leaf

Example Sentences

The first encore continued in this unexpected vein, with the Albumblatt in A Minor, a piece written by Brahms in a friend’s music notebook and rediscovered only in the past decade.

From Washington Post

On Tuesday he added all of Bach’s Italian Concerto and Brahms’s posthumous “Albumblatt” in A minor.

From New York Times

When visitors who do not really care for music have once been launched on the process of asking for it, the kindest thing to do is to play promptly something brief and sweet and trailing—some Abendlied or Albumblatt, for instance, and have it over.

From Project Gutenberg

The sombre shifts of the E flat minor Albumblatt were especially impressive.

From The Guardian

Opus 24 is an "Albumblatt" for 'cello and 254 piano.

From Project Gutenberg