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Tenderly moving.
Printed as a heading above the first bar, sometimes with dolce or a second tempo word (Fliessend) beside it; it holds until the next tempo word. Zart describes the manner, bewegt the motion.
A gentle, rocking motion, tender in touch — the heading of Brahms’s “Wiegenlied”. It asks for flow without push and a soft, unaccented sound. Use it for cradle-songs, barcarolles and intimate songs, and let the dynamics stay low; a forte under Zart bewegt contradicts the heading.
Brahms, Fünf Lieder, Op. 49, No. 4, “Wiegenlied” (“Guten Abend, gut’ Nacht”): the song is headed “Zart bewegt”.
Zart bewegt is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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