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Paris in 1825. "Play me something," said the pale, sarcastic genius of twenty, the already famous Liszt. Von Lenz played Aufforderung zum Tanz* and then other music by Weber. The glitter of a dagger in the sun was in the eyes of Liszt, and he put down his long Turkish pipe, amazed. He had never heard of Weber's piano music, and he solemnly pledged eternal gratitude to Von Lenz from Riga for having introduced to him such beauty. He had known only Weber's universally popular opera Frieschütz.š And young Weber had been dead...
...Minister Stein mine is named after the celebrated Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Baron vom und zum Stein, German statesman...
...mine named after Baron von und zum Stein...
...boomed its dull, monotonous roar, the crowd became bareheaded, two minutes' silence was observed with reverential solemnity. Then, thousands of melancholy voices sang the old German hymn: Wir treten zum Beten. As the vibrant notes of the hymn found thundering echoes of grief in thousands of hearts, tears welled, men and women allegedly fainted?not from heat, for it was cold?not from crowd roughness, for there was order?but from grief...
...Zum Schluss...