On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies and Other Essays (Dover Books on Music) by Felix Weingartner

Author:Felix Weingartner [Weingartner, Felix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486174761
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2013-03-21T03:00:00+00:00

should come in poco meno f, which of course does not mean a sudden transition to p. The following rising figure is played with a gradual crescendo. The woodwind section (whether doubled or not) joins in at about mf and also plays crescendo until the ff prescribed in bar 278.

Bar 285. The meeting of the D major and A major in this bar—the woodwinds anticipate the modulation to a certain extent—is a true piece of Beethoven daring, and must not be interfered with or explained away.

Bars 299 and 300. After these fermatas no pause must be made any more than in bar 88. I should also advise that the second fermata be sustained for a somewhat shorter time than the first.

Bars 304–314. I have allowed myself some freedom in the execution of this wonderful passage. First of all I added a poco diminuendo in the first of the bars mentioned, and let the D minor make its entry pp in all instruments. Four bars later, whilst the winds were still playing pp, I graduated the strings as follows:

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