I do not mean that it is not worthwhile to attempt a revision of the canon or that no success is possible. A few valuable minor changes have been mad… - Charles Rosen

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I do not mean that it is not worthwhile to attempt a revision of the canon or that no success is possible. A few valuable minor changes have been made to our sense of the basic material of the history of music, and other alterations are still waiting to take hold. Gesualdo has not displaced Monteverdi or Palestrina but has won a permanent place; on the other hand, the attempt to convince us that Telemann is a major composer appears to have been abandoned. Alkan has not had the breakthrough his admirers had hoped for. Attacks on Tchaikovsky have not had much success in removing his music from the repertory; his credit with performers has not changed a bit.

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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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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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