The musical language which made the classical style possible is that of tonality, which was not a massive, immobile system but a living, gradually ch… - Charles Rosen

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The musical language which made the classical style possible is that of tonality, which was not a massive, immobile system but a living, gradually changing language from its beginning. It had reached a new and important turning point just before the style of Haydn and Mozart took shape.

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About Charles Rosen

Charles Welles Rosen (May 5, 1927 – December 9, 2012) was an American pianist and writer on music.

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Alternative Names: Rosen, Charles Charles Welles Rosen
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Technical display in Chopin, after the early works, is transmuted into tone color or dramatic gesture-we may say, to accept the prejudices of Chopin's own generation, that it has been ennobled. This is the source of much of the poetry in Chopin's music: it comes from the transformation of the vulgar into something aristocratic.

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