1st Edition

The Early Romantic Composers: 5-Volume Set

2000 Pages
by Routledge

The five composers represented in this series sit at the core of the Western art-music tradition, and have received an enormous amount of critical and scholarly attention. Beethoven and Schubert worked at the cusp between the Classical style and Romanticism; Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin formed part of what Charles Rosen called ’The Romantic Generation’, a group of composers born around... Read more

Beethoven

Chopin

Mendelssohn

Schubert

Schumann

Biography

Michael Spitzer is Professor of Music at Liverpool Univesity