Author: brycon
Date: 2019-12-10 20:55
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I wasn't aware of the Charles Rosen book you mentioned. I've read "the Classical Style" though.
You should read it! It isn't as good as Classical Style, which is one of the great books of theory and criticism, but it's still very good in its own way.
It contains some very good discussions of central Romantic-era concepts, such as "the fragment" (think of the opening song of Dichterliebe having no true beginning or ending) or "the ruin/memory" (very famously, of course, in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" but also later in the final movement of Brahms's fourth symphony).
Beethoven gets lumped into the Romantic generation because his personality contained so many of the calling cards of Romanticism: physical or mental malady, solitary genius, originality, etc. His music, though, as Rosen shows, is much more similar to Mozart's than to Schumann's.
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