The Classical Style (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Classical Style Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• A greatly expanded edition of the National Book Award-winning masterpiece by a world-class pianist and writer on music. This outstanding book treating the three most beloved composers of the Vienna School is basic to any study of Classical-era music. Drawing on his rich experience and intimate familiarity with the works of these giants, Charles Rosen presents his keen insights in clear and persuasive language. For this expanded edition, now available in paperback for the first time, Rosen has provided a new, 64-page chapter on the later years of Beethoven and the musical conventions he inherited from Haydn and Mozart. The author has also written an extensive new preface in which he responds to other writers who have commented on his ideas.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Classical Style Friday, July 31 2009.

• Added a contributor: Charles Rosen: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Classical Style Thursday, July 16 2009.

• When Beethoven left Bonn in 1792, he had with him an album in which his patron, Count Waldstein, had written: You are going to Vienna in fulfillment of your long frustrated wishes . . .