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The subject of this book is the generation of musicians who came to maturity between the death of Beethoven and that of Chopin in 1849 – Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Mendelssohn and Schumann, with shorter discussions of Bellini and Meyerbeer, and a prolonged glance back to Schubert. Rosen discusses how they changed th emusical language of their era and how their music achieved and achieves the effects it does; he does so in prose of wonderful clarity and with a range of references to other, non-musical cultural developments which makes him exceedingly rare among critics in any creative field. To these he adds the insights that only adistinguished performer can bring. The result is a second major landmark book in music criticism.             ‘I have no doubt that this book is destined to become the definitive study of early Romanticism, suceeding and transcending The Classical Style. 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