Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2019-03-04 18:55
"We have tempo markings from Beethoven, Hummel, and Czerny--contemporaries of Weber--indicating quicker approaches."
Well, yes, quicker approaches to Beethoven, Hummel and Czerny. Personally, I think the quick tempo for the finale of the Eighth Symphony is just fine, except for the unfortunate circumstance that I can't play it that fast. They doubtless played Vivaldi really fast too. Nor is it likely that the mid to late 19th century was slower than the late 18th and early 19th. Liszt didn't make his reputation by playing everything at ultra-lounge tempi. Whether the third movement of Mozart works better at breakneck speed than, say, what Geza Anda would have played the third movement of the 27th concerto at is "just" a matter of opinion and taste, but that's the kind of judgment art hinges on. Furtwängler talked about there being "true" and "false" interpretations of great works, and I think lots of us would agree with that, but not about which specific performances were one or the other. I think it's a fair observation, though, that some recordings of Mozart and Weber now are faster than what was recorded in the '60s and '70s, but also that a much wider spectrum of players can get themselves recorded now than then. I also don't think it's really as simple for any of us that we "grew up" with something and therefore like it better. We grow up with lots of things, but at some level we choose what we adopt and what we forget about. Whether we clearly understand and can articulate that process is something else.
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