Response Beethoven's "Sonata for Cello and Piano op. 69," was composed in 1806-1807. ... As early as 1756, Leopold Mozart had advised its use on "a closing note or any other sustained note," while Baillot wrote in 1803 that it could be applied on "long notes or when the same note is repeated." Tromlitz advised its use on "long notes, fermatas, and on the note before a cadenza." Historically it seems advisable, therefore to give greater vibrato at the fermata in bar 24 of op. 69, which precedes the ad libitum cadenza, a position which is also reinforced by the appearance of a trill in t...

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