The Classical Music Book

139 See also: Stamitz’s Symphony in E-flat major 116–117 ■ Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor 128–131 ■ Symphonie fantastique 1 ...

140 round off the movement, Beethoven composed a hugely extended development, falling between a long exposition and recapitulati ...

141 use a theme-and-variation form as its closing movement, Beethoven broke with tradition by failing to start with the theme it ...

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T he Romantic movement arose largely as a reaction to the rationalization and urbanization of European society following the Ind ...

symphonies, a trend that was taken up later by many composers, especially Franz Liszt, who developed a form known as the symphon ...

146 V iolinist-composer Niccolò Paganini’s career as an international performer lasted just six years, from 1828 to 1834, but hi ...

147 The First Triumph of Paganini, by Annibale Gatti, c.1890, possibly depicts a performance at the court at Lucca, where Pagani ...

148 See also: Le bourgeois gentilhomme 70–71 ■ The Magic Flute 134 –137 ■ La traviata 174 –175 ■ Tosca 194 –197 S urviving a dis ...

149 See also: The Magic Flute 134 –137 ■ The Barber of Seville 14 8 ■ La traviata 174 –175 ■ The Ring Cycle 180 –187 ■ Tosca 194 ...

NO ONE FEELS ANOTHER’S GRIEF, NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ANOTHER’S JOY DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN ( 1824 ), FRANZ SCHUBERT US_150-155_Schubert_ ...

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152 T he composer Franz Schubert is most often linked to the German art song (or Lied; plural, Lieder). He did not invent the ge ...

153 for their artistic impulses. This amateur form of music making, away from the formal courts and concert societies, was reach ...

154 desire, in the face of rejection, to find solace in nature. These ideas would be explored with an even greater level of inte ...

155 Hugo Wolf wrote several hundred art songs, often with deeply romantic and personal themes, as captured on this postcard depi ...

MUSIC IS LIKE A DREAM. ONE THAT I CANNOT HEAR STRING QUARTET NO. 14 IN C-SHARP MINOR, OP. 131 ( 1826 ), BEETHOVEN US_156-161_Bee ...

MUSIC IS LIKE A DREAM. ONE THAT I CANNOT HEAR STRING QUARTET NO. 14 IN C-SHARP MINOR, OP. 131 ( 1826 ), BEETHOVEN US_156-161_Bee ...

158 B eethoven’s music divides into three stylistic periods: the early (up to 1802), the middle (1803–1813), and the late (1817– ...