Crossword-Solution: RUBATO 6 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And for this reason at the very last I added a goodly amount of fingering and pedal marks; kindly get the printers to excuse this, and I trust that the trouble it causes will not prove superfluous.--With regard to the deceptive Termpo rubato, I have settled the matter provisionally in a brief note (in the finale of Weber's A flat major Sonata); other occurrences of the rubato may be left to the taste and momentary feeling of gifted players.

That I always remain strictly in time surprises every one; they can not understand that the left hand should not in the least be concerned in a tempo rubato.

Mozart learned the principle from his father who in his method for the violin condemned the accompanists who spoiled the tempo rubato of an artist by waiting to follow him.

This manner of execution, which set a seal so peculiar upon his own style of playing, was at first indicated by the term 'tempo rubato', affixed to his writings: a Tempo agitated, broken, interrupted, a movement flexible, yet at the same time abrupt and languishing, and vacillating as the flame under the fluctuating breath by which it is agitated.

You can no more teach a real Chopin rubato--not the mawkish imitation,--than you can make a donkey comprehend Kant.