Description: Based on the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
What Charles Rosen_s celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sense of Romantic music. In readings uniquely informed by his performing experience, Rose offers consistently acute and thoroughly engaging analyses of works by the Romantic masters.
