The Romantic Generation

by Charles Rosen (Author), Charles Rosen (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $32.47

  An exhilarating exploration of the musical language forms and styles of the Romantic period, The Romantic Generation captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so conveys the very sense of Romantic music. 728 musical examples.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $24.12

  The subject of this book is the generation of musicians who came to maturity between the death of Beethoven in 1827 and that of Chopin in 1849 - Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Schumann, with shorter discussions of Bellini and Meyerbeer, and a prolonged glance back to Schubert. Rosen discusses how they changed the musical language of their era and how their music achieved and achieves the effects it does. He does so, with a range of references to other, non-musical cultural developments.