He bungles the allegro tempi in such a manner that all distinctness is out of the question.
The first act is besides extremely tedious, from the circumstance that so many slow tempi and prayers succeed each other so closely, so that in point of fact, the opera has neither life nor action.
The whole poem throughout is conceived and rendered with much fancy, yet the music suffers from a want of form through the frequent change of the tempi and measure.
I therefore could not only give the tempi in a very decisive manner, but indicated also to the wind instruments and horns all their entries, which ensured to them a confidence such as hitherto they had not known there.
If it should be given on any future occasion, I would recommend the conductor to take the tempi solemnly always, but never dragging, and to beat the time throughout alla Breve.
Beethoven had complied with the publisher's desire and sent a slip of paper with the tempi marked metronomically.
Later the lost slip was found, and, upon comparing it with the second slip, it was found that Beethoven had made an entirely different estimate of the tempi at which he desired the Symphony to be played.
The Christ-child of the Tempi painting is a dimpled baby shyly nestling against his mother's breast; the Sistine Child is a royal messenger lightly enthroned upon the Madonna's arm.
We can appreciate the Tempi Madonna at the first glance; the meaning of the Sistine Madonna we can never fully reach, though to contemplate it day by day is to feel our thoughts become purer and our aspirations nobler.
In this way I had maintained my tempiin such a way that I felt no doubt that on my removal all my points would remain firmly established.
The things that pleased me were the effect of an uncurtailed performance, and the employment of correct tempi and correct staging.
The tempi of the choruses seemed to me considerably too fast, and there was more than one break-down in this scene.
It would be advisable, however, that the overture should appear with the correct tempi and some necessary marks of expression.
The Tempi Madonna holds him to her heart, pressing her lips to his soft cheek.
It instantly recalls the Tempi Madonna of Raphael, both in the pose of the figure and in the genuineness of feeling exhibited.
In my later works I omitted the metronome and merely described the main tempi in general terms, paying, however, particular attention to the various modifications of tempo.
His choice of tempi will show whether he understands the piece or not.
It was troublesome and difficult to interfere; for when correct tempi and proper modifications of these were taken the defects of style which the flood had carried along or concealed became painfully apparent.
Mendelssohn himself once remarked to me, with regard to conducting, that he thought most harm was done by taking a tempo too slow; and that on the contrary, he always recommended quick tempias being less detrimental.
Robert Schumann once complained to me at Dresden that he could not enjoy the Ninth Symphony at the Leipzig Gewandhaus concerts because of the quick tempi Mendelssohn chose to take, particularly in the first movement.
He would like to know the tempiof the finale of the last symphony.
Indeed Kullak, a man of moderate pulse, is quite right in his strictures on the Chopin tempi, tempi that sprang from the expressively light mechanism of the prevailing pianos of Chopin's day.
Mention has not been made, as in the studies and preludes, of the tempi of the Mazurkas.
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