Capriccio could refer to:
- A free-form, lively piece of music: see Capriccio (music). See Capriccio for other uses of the term A capriccio or caprice (sometimes plural caprices, capri or in
- An opera by Richard Strauss: see Capriccio (opera). Capriccio is the final Opera by German composer Richard Strauss, subtitled "A Conversation Piece for Music"
- Igor Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. The Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra ( Capriccio pour piano et orchestre) was written by Igor Stravinsky in Nice between 1926 and 1929
- Capriccio (painting), a type of landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting. In painting a capriccio is an architectural fantasy placing together buildings archaeological remains and/or other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations For the art of designing external spaces see Landscape architecture.
- A cappriccio (art term), an art term denoting the grotesque, playful, fantastic, transgressing the academic norms.
- A thread application programming interface for scalable internet services: see Capriccio (computing).
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