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Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion (with CD).(Brief Article)
by Charles Rosen. Yale University Press (P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040), 2002. 256 pp., $29.95.
Musicians have learned to open a new book by Charles Rosen with happy anticipation; we appreciate the combination of lucid style and solid scholarship that he brings us. This latest book has all of Rosen's trademarks: thorough research, a return to the sources, synthesis of performance practices and gentle prodding of the reader toward excellence, all written in clear and straightforward prose.
The first half of the book deals with some of those perplexing problems of Beethoven performance: tempo, phrasing and articulation. The indications in the scores have given rise to countless interpretations over the years, and it is greatly to Rosen's credit that he refers to the first editions whenever possible. He is thus able to bypass the wrangling and disagreement that have marked every edition of the sonatas since their first appearance.
It is not that Rosen avoids the fray; he cites the first edition as his evidence to refute later writers, as well as sloppy performers.
Rosen gets detoured for thirty pages (in a volume of only 249) to prove a point about the meaning of allegretto in the classical period; here there is a great deal about this one indication in Mozart, not ...
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