Tempo Giusto

[r.schaefer]

Hi,
what do you guys think of the "TEMPUS theory". Today I heard the first time about it and I'm quite stunned.

information:
https://www.hodie-world.com/
https://www.tempusfoundation.org/
https://www.wellermusik.de/                    <---- really interesting,   but only in german
https://www.tempogiusto.de/
https://www.digitalaudioguide.com/cgi-bin/review/music_reviewview.pl?category=classical&name=music&product=23

[Nordlys]

It is interesting.

As far as I could understand, they speak for a way of finding the tempo from within the music itself, and not by rigorous rules. The tempo must be "felt" by using your musicality. This I think most of us can agree with.

Then they argue that we now play music approximately twice as fast as they did from the 17th untill middle 19th century. The evidence is the much debated high metronome numbers on some music by Beethoven and others. The solution, they say, is that the metronome is supposed to do two clicks instead of one on each beat. I am not quite convinced, allthough the recordings of Uwe Kliemt were not bad. Always interesting to hear a new interpretation. But I would like to hear the other movements of the "pathetique" when he plays the last movement that slow. It sounded like a Chopin Nocturne.

[Nordlys]

Hi,
what do you guys think of the "TEMPUS theory". Today I heard the first time about it and I'm quite stunned.

information:
https://www.hodie-world.com/
https://www.tempusfoundation.org/
https://www.wellermusik.de/                    <---- really interesting,   but only in german
https://www.tempogiusto.de/
https://www.digitalaudioguide.com/cgi-bin/review/music_reviewview.pl?category=classical&name=music&product=23

Hello all nice and intelligent people out there!

You should really read these links and listen to the examples by Kliemt (https://www.tempogiusto.de/)
It is interesting. And let us hear your opinions!