un|per|form|a|ble

un|per|form|a|ble
un|per|form|a|ble «UHN puhr FR muh buhl», adjective.
not performable; undoable: »

Though the composer grandly pronounced Tristan “the greatest musical drama of all time,” opera houses in Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, and Munich rejected it as unperformable (Time).


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