The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven - Charles.

The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven is a book by the American pianist and author Charles Rosen. The book analyses the evolution of style during the Classical period of classical music as it was developed through the works of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Charles Rosen is one of the great musicologists of the twentieth century and in The Classical Style he does a marvelous job characterizing the classical style as epitomized by its three great masters, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

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But the unity which the common theme of Romanticism provides for Rosen's collection makes one feel the absence of an introduction, or a new essay, that might bring to a point the arguments that run throughout, while considering Romanticism's relation to the classical and the modern. Rosen certainly earns the authority to give such an overview.

A notable aspect of Charles Rosen’s regard for piano playing is that he conveys no dewy-eyed nostalgia about the passing golden age of pianists. It’s a part he could play to the hilt, if he wished. His teacher from 1938 till the old man’s death in 1945 was Moriz Rosenthal, who had been a student of Liszt.

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Charles Rosen is renowned as a pianist, scholar, and lecturer, and as a writer in the fields of music, art, literature, and intellectual history. Born in New York City in 1927, Rosen was picking out tunes on the piano by the age of four and was enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music at age six.

The Classical Style is an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971. With his experience as a world-class pianist as well as as teacher at Harvard and Oxford, Charles Rosen produced the definitive survey of the language of the music of the classical period.

Charles Rosen inherited the great Romantic piano tradition in a direct line from some of its most illustrious proponents. Born in New York City, Mr. Rosen was enrolled at The Juilliard School at the age of six, leaving five years later to study with Moriz Rosenthal, a pupil of Liszt, and his wife, Hedwig Kanner, a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky.

The Romantic Generation is an even more important book than Charles Rosen’s last title The Classical Style (1972) (winner of the American National Book Award and many other prizes) which rapidly established itself as one of the few truly indispensible modern books about music.