No one today can claim to know what tempo Schubert had in mind for his Wanderer Fantasy...since the composer didn't leave any metronome indication and since we have no source from his contemporary or circle of friends, that gives us an idea of how he might have played this work. Nevertheless in 1868, Liszt, who was studying in Vienna during the 1820s and who was in contact with that musical world, has made an edition of the Wanderer Fantasy with "Ossia" passages and with...metronome numbers.
So we asked ourselves "how does this piece sound at this speed?"
It's very interesting to see the idea of tempi of a pianist like Liszt, who is considered one of the best of the history. Of course, if we read the metronome numbers in the way we do nowadays, the piece would sound extremely fast. But if we apply the WBMP (Whole Beat Metronome Practice), as this was the most used way to read the metronome numbers in the 19th century, maybe we would discover something that no one has ever heard before and... this is the result. Enjoy!
1: 08 Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo (M.M. q=112)
15:25 Adagio (M.M. 8=63)
31:55 Presto (M.M. h dotted=72)
42:58 Allegro (M.M. q=108)
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