The romantic generation / Charles Rosen.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998, ©1995.

xv, 723 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.

"Based on the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures"--Half-title page.

Includes index.

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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