JAVS Fall 2012

Figure 2. First page of the score that Willem Mengelberg used for the premiere of Der Schwanendreher on November 14, 1935, in Amsterdam (with kind permission of the Hindemith Institute, Frankfurt am Main).

Figure 3. Hindemith’s handwritten tempo marking of half note = 108–104 for the start of the quick section in the first movement of Der Schwanendreher , just slightly quicker than his printed metronome marking of half note = 100 (with kind permission of the Hindemith Institute, Frankfurt am Main).

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