menuets

Updated: May 5, 2025

Nevertheless, I believe Haydn's Menuets are generally taken too quick; undoubtedly the Menuets of Mozart's Symphonies are; this will be felt very distinctly if, for instance, the Menuetto in Mozart's Symphony in G minor, and still more that of his Symphony in C major, be played a little slower than at the customary pace.

Richard Wagner - On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,