Title:
The romantic generation / Charles Rosen.
Author:
Rosen, Charles, 1927-
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998, c1995.
Call Number:
ML196 .R67 1998
Edition:
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780674779341
Physical Description:
xv, 723 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"Based on the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures."
Includes index.
Contents:
Music and sound -- Fragments -- Mountains and song cycles -- Formal interlude -- Chopin: counterpoint and the narrative forms -- Chopin: virtuosity transformed -- Chopin: from the miniature genre to the sublime style -- Liszt: on creation as performance -- Berlioz: liberation from the central European tradition -- Mendelssohn and the invention of religious kitsch -- Romantic opera: politics, trash, and high art -- Schumann: triumph and failure of the romantic ideal.
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