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By this time Mozart had been dead for almost fourteen years and Haydn was too weak to compose. Beethoven was unchallenged throughout Europe as the greatest living composer of instrumental
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. Even more, he was generally recognized as having surpassed his famous predecessors. This, of course, did not prevent critics from greeting each new work as a disappointment after his by then acceptable achievements of the previous years.
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Liszt has never needed revival; his
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has always been an important part of the concert repertoire. Nevertheless, he has appeared to need rehabilitation.
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It is typical of Schumann's musical thinking to construct this complex network of references outside his
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-to quote Beethoven, and then to have Beethoven's distant beloved refer to Clara. But this should give a clue to the nature of Schumann's achievement. It is not Schumann's
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that, refers to Clara but Beethoven's melody, the "secret tone."
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The extraordinary stylistic changes of late eighteenth-century
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may have provided much of the inspiration for the literature of the turn of the century, but the literary forms that resulted were deeply eccentric. It was these works—paradoxical, anticlassical, often with startlingly unbalanced proportions—which in turn influenced the
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of the generation of composers that followed. The most clearly affected by literature and art were Schumann, Berlioz, and Liszt, but neither Mendelssohn nor Chopin remained untouched by literary developments, like the revival of Celtic and medieval poetry, as the overtures of Mendelssohn and the Ballades of Chopin explicitly demonstrate.
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Charles Rosen
Born:
May 5, 1927
Died:
December 9, 2012
(aged 85)
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