Haydn's And Mozart's Sonata Styles
John Harutunian · 2005
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The names of Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are so closely intertwined that most people speak them in the same breath. As contemporaneous composers, they spoke the same musical language, that of late eighteenth-century Classicism. Specifically, they shared the summit in the development of a procedure known as sonata style. Nevertheless, experienced listeners can readily distinguish between the two composers. Articulating these differences, however, is another matter entirely. This book does so, in a way which presents a clear and comprehensive picture of these two great figures of Western music [Publisher description]
Book details
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Edwin Mellen Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 302
- ISBN
- 9780773462021
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