Tempo considerations in the works of Sigismund Toduță
Tempo considerations in the works of Sigismund Toduță

Summary/Abstract: Anyone who has played or studied the scores of our great composer Sigismund Toduţă, cannot have missed the variety of tempo indications integrated in the series of compositional elements – so rich at melodic-rhythmic, harmonic, polyphonic or timbral level. The luxuriance of expression and movement notations, already proverbial in the author’s time, qualified him as an unsurpassed Italianist among musicians, able to record in written form the infinitesimal nuances of his compositional intentions. Far from leaving tempos a piacere, i.e. at the performers’ discretion, he used to mark them very accurately, which remained a constant throughout his three periods of creation. Few were the works – such as Liturghii [Liturgies] or Toccata from the triptych Preludiu-Coral-Toccata [PreludeChoral-Toccata] – in which movement indications were missing, being left to be inferred from the character of the writing.

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