The Genesis of Beethoven's "C-minor Complex"

By inspecting different tonality used by composers in classical periods, their physical mechanism of tonality color and character options and by analyzing their common tonality color and composing character, this paper aims at tracing the historic formation of the specific tonality color of C minor piano works by composers before Beethoven.

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