1. Beethoven's Cello Sonata Op.69
Beethoven's prescribed tempo marking is Allegro, ma non tanto with the autograph score giving a time signature of 4/4 (C) on all three staves. However, the Gesamtausgabe (following the first edition) gives 2/2 (cut-C). ... As early as 1756, Leopold Mozart had advised its use on "a closing note or any other sustained note," while Baillot wrote in 1803 that it could be applied on "long notes or when the same note is repeated." Tromlitz advised its use on "long notes, fermatas, and on the note before a cadenza." ... Czerny's incipit for the work in his treatise of 183924 gives the o...
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