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• n  (music) low loudness
• s  chiefly a direction or description in music; very soft
• r  a direction in music; to be played very softly

• Come snobs, I play too pianissimo, too fortissimo, my hair, I am too fat, my dress.
• That is what a pianissimo should be like.
• Lieder by Schumann and Schubert he sang with expert tenderness, using perhaps too often a pianissimo of exquisite softness.

• piano
• very softly

• fortissimo

News & Articles

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• Review: TMP Goes Full Bore With Mercury Half-Life
  The sometimes pianissimo, sometimes full-throated vaudevillian voice of Freddie Mercury cracked open the evening's second act. by Harrison Berry In addition to his success as a writer, Mark Twain was also a masterful--if eccentric--public speaker. He would stand on stage saying nothing, sometimes for up to 15 minutes.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  Oct. 30, 2013 - Boise Weekly

Quotes

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• Jaap van Zweden in Dallas Morning News
  There was a click there, a connection,Mr. van Zweden says of his first experience. "The orchestra was very eager to do the things I was asking ...... about phrasing, or sound quality, or quality of pianissimo. That was the moment when I...
• Ron Della Chiesa in Boston Globe (registration)
  The American songbook is really American lieder. It's our Schubert, our Puccini,Della Chiesa says. "She's a Puccini singer. She could sing really pianissimo and yet be heard across the room."