Author: JKL
Date: 2019-03-03 18:56
brycoon wrote:
"What evidence do you have that slower tempi have been the historic norm?
Moreover, what about slower tempi in Weber "hits the nail on the head"? Again, seems you just prefer the interpretations with which you grew up (which is perfectly fine but don't pretend you have some musical justification for the decision)."
The metronome markings in my edition of Weber II (Breitkopf, "edited after the autograph") are for the first movenent Allegro crotchet 108, for the Polacca 100. For the Weber I for example if we follow the Henle edition, the Baermann idea for the first movement was 108 as well. You may find the sources questionable, but all sources we have for these works propose much slower tempi than performers today usually use. So it would - in this particular case! - not up to me to justify slower tempi, but up to you to justify why faster tempi seem to be better. Well, it´s all about personal taste, if you feel it differently why not. But the more serious sources we have, the more you are requested to justify why not follow these sources.
Jan
Post Edited (2019-03-03 19:00)
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