Volume 49, Number 9 · May 23, 2002
The Keys to Beethoven
By Michael Kimmelman
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion
by Charles Rosen
Yale University Press, 256 pp., $29.95
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Piano Music
a recording by Charles Rosen
Fonè Records
The thirty-two Beethoven sonatas, composed between 1795 and 1822, are the most prestigious works in the solo piano literature. They are, as Charles Rosen says in his new book about them, 'the great representative of Western culture in the upper middle-class household from 1850 almost to our day, as much a part of civilized life as entertaining guests and family dinners.'
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