Norman Reppingen wrote: >Actually i am working with the Mozart Sonata KV 330. I am a bit clueless >about the tempo of the second movement. ... I would be interested in the >tempi which are played by Gulda, Brendel, the older ones, any "authorities" >in relation to Mozart. Walter Klien (Vox) belongs to these "authorities". His tempo is also something like 56-58. I'd say that the most important word in "andante cantabile" is rather "cantabile" then "andante". In other words - and there have already been numerous threads on this subject - tempo is a very relative concept. Simon Corley [log in to unmask]