The Classical Style
Subtitle: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: January 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9780393317121
First sentence: When Beethoven left Bonn in 1792, he had with him an album in which his patron, Count Waldstein, had written: 'You are going to Vienna in fulfillment of your long frustrated wishes . . . You will receive the spirit of Mozart from the hands of Haydn.'