William Jenks wrote: >...I wonder what the 'literalist' school (e.g., Jocelyn) says about >tempi, when marked unambiguously. It would seem that this is >another place where the composer's intentions are pretty clear, but >some performers take variance. What comes to my mind, for example, >are the different tempi taken with some of Beethoven's work. Different tempos from artists performing the same works are to be expected, and I always welcome the differences. The world of performance would boring indeed if we always heard the same tempo. Don Satz [log in to unmask]