The Classical Style by Charles Rosen6/24/2023 ![]() His first book, The Classical Style, is a standard reference to the study of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn. As a writer and critic, his range has been equally varied. As a pianist, his 60-year career has been notable for a vast spread of music that has taken in the core classical and romantic repertoires while also fruitfully engaging with Bach, early 20th-century French music, Martinu, Bartók, the second Viennese school, Boulez and Elliott Carter. In the years since, Rosen has built a career as both a front-rank concert pianist and a leading writer about music. But to begin with I wrote just to keep nonsense off my record sleeves." ![]() Eventually it led to many books and articles. Before he even offered me a drink he said he would publish whatever I'd like to write. People liked them and after a while a publisher took me to lunch. So I started writing the sleeve notes myself. ![]() "I had many thoughts about the piece," he says. Rosen says he wasn't entirely happy with the recording, but he was even more disappointed with the sleeve note, which described the nocturne as "staggering drunken with the odour of flowers". It included one of the late nocturnes, opus 62 no 1, written just a year before the end of Chopin's 10-year relationship with George Sand and three years before his death, aged 39, in 1849. T he pianist Charles Rosen released his first Chopin recording in 1960. ![]()
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