The Age of Mozart and Beethoven

by Giorgio Pestelli

Book Overview

Giorgio Pestelli examines one of the crucial periods of musical history, from the middle of the eighteenth century to the era of Beethoven. This was a time of great cultural, technical and social changes. The free professional composer, in direct contact with the wide musical public, replaced the dependent court musician. Instrumental music became the centre of new developments, and sonata form, the cornerstone of nineteenth-century musical architecture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521284791
• ISBN13: 9780521284790
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"