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Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion. (Book Reviews: Works).(Book Review)
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion. By Charles Rosen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. [xii, 256 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 0-300-090706. $29.95.] Music examples, index, compact disc.
Playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas. By Robert Taub. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 2002. [258 p. ISBN 1-57467-071-9. $24.95.] Music examples, glossary, bibliography, index.
The nearly simultaneous publication of two books about the Beethoven sonatas, each by a Princeton-educated pianist who has performed the complete cycle, is surely a coincidence. Similarities in the organization and scope of the two books are also striking. Although both are informed in essential ...
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