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The buffoonery of Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart is only an exaggeration of an essential quality of the classical style. This style was, in its origins, basically a comic one.
Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1997)
Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1997)
The creation of a classical style was not so much the achievement of an ideal as the reconciliation of conflicting ideals-the striking of an optimum balance between them.
Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1997)