Word: tremolo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Weber had been kapellmeister at every petty court of Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine for a local operatic golddigger. Asked his opinion, Liszt silently laid his hands on the keyboard and, beginning with the unique tremolo in the bass, played his beloved Sonata in A flat. Victor Halvéy, French poet, writes that until then he had never understood Weber's music, which now brought tears to his eyes and silence to his former sneers...