Perspirations
NO INSTRUMENT represents the culture of classical music as powerfully as the piano. Charles Rosen's new book investigates the piano's cultural history, its repertoires and institutions and its crucial impact on the history of music. He brings all of his experience as one of the most intellectually rigorous pianists and brilliant music historians alive today. But he wears his enormous erudition lightly, and for all its musical, cultural and even philosophical insights, this is a wide-ranging and approachable book that will appeal to pianists of every level.
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