The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

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.

• The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
• Sonata Forms (Revised Edition)
• Beethoven`s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion
• Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
• Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
• Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
• Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
• Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
• The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum