Mozart's Tempo-System
Helmut Breidenstein · Tectum – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft eBooks · 2019
A reference book for the musician’s practical work of interpretation, this volume, after a general presentation of 18th century principles for determining a tempo, offers a compendium of all Mozart’s autograph tempo markings in 420 lists of pieces of similar character. Thus, a comparison of slower and quicker movements is made possible by 434 music examples, and there follows a wide-ranging collection of relevant texts taken from historical sources.