Excerpt from On Conducting
I This passage will become clearer to the 'reader if he will refer to the score of the overture. If the tempi recommended by Herr wein gartner are adopted, it is evident that since one bar of the allegro a third of a bar of the introduction, three crotchets in the former one minim (or two crotchets) in the latter. The allegro is thus faster than the introduction in the proportion of 3 to 2. By abstaining from taking the allegro so fast that the proportion would be as 4 to 2, the tempo is not rapid enough to need any holding-back at the place wagner discusses. [tr.
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