The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven is a book by the American pianist and author Charles Rosen . The book analyses the evolution of style during the Classical period of classical music as it was developed through the works of Joseph Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , and Ludwig van Beethoven .
5-452: The Classical Style was first published on April 21, 1971, by Viking Press . Rosen later revised the work, complete with a new chapter, an updated preface, and a companion CD specifically recorded for the new edition. This second version was published through W. W. Norton & Company in 1998. The Classical Style has been critically lauded since its publication. In the original The New York Times review, Edward T. Cone called it
10-430: A "thoughtful and illuminating study" and "a book for which both musicians and music-lovers should be grateful." The book won the 1972 National Book Award for Arts and Letters . It is still the only book on music to win the award. In 2014, the pianist Jeremy Denk (as librettist) and the composer Steven Stucky created the comic opera The Classical Style in honor of the work. The piece premiered June 13, 2014 at
15-722: The Ojai Music Festival . Viking Press Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin , also listed as Viking Books ) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House . It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer and then acquired by the Penguin Group in 1975. In 1933, Viking Press founded a department called Junior Books to publish children's books. The first book published
20-493: The Speak and Firebird imprints. In 2023, Tamar Brazis was named v-p and publisher of Viking Children's Books. The Viking Critical Library offers academic editions of literary texts . Like W. W. Norton 's Norton Critical Editions , all titles print the text alongside a selection of critical essays and contextual documents (including relevant extracts from the author's oeuvre). The series, which only saw sporadic publications in
25-724: Was The Story About Ping in 1933 under editor May Massee . Junior Books was later renamed Viking Children's Books. Viking Kestrel was one of its imprints . Its books have won the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and include such books as The Twenty-One Balloons , written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois (1947, Newbery medal winner for 1948), Corduroy , Make Way for Ducklings , The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (1993), The Outsiders , Pippi Longstocking , and The Story of Ferdinand . Its paperbacks are now published by Puffin Books , which includes
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