Author: Simon McVeigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521028906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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This book is a detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London's cultural life.

Author: Christopher Hogwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Written by one of the country's foremost specialists in the classical repertoire and an internationally renowned conductor, this book recounts the circumstances surrounding the genesis of some of Haydn's most famous works, including the London Symphonies.

Author: Stendhal
Publisher: London J. Murray 1818
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: L. A. C. Bombet
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Author: Daniel Heartz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393066340
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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A vivid portrait of Mozart and Haydn's greatest achievements and young Beethoven's works under their influence.

Author: Simon Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009254375
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Author: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052189574X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Presenting a fresh perspective on the life and work of Joseph Haydn, this biography probes the darker side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.

Author: Howard Chandler Robbins Landon
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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A survey of Haydn's life and of his musical genius and its impact on posterity; offers detailed information with authoritative analytical commentary. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: John Carnelley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270640
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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The first full length study of Sir George Thomas Smart (1776-1867), musical animateur and early champion of the music of Beethoven

Author: Elaine R. Sisman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400831822
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both the connoisseurs and amateurs of the emerging musical public. In this volume, the first collection of essays in English devoted to this composer, a group of leading musicologists examines Haydn's works in relation to the aesthetic and cultural crosscurrents of his time. Haydn and His World opens with an examination of the contexts of the composer's late oratorios: James Webster connects the Creation with the sublime--the eighteenth-century term for artistic experience of overwhelming power--and Leon Botstein explores the reception of Haydn's Seasons in terms of the changing views of programmatic music in the nineteenth century. Essays on Haydn's instrumental music include Mary Hunter on London chamber music as models of private and public performance, fortepianist Tom Beghin on rhetorical aspects of the Piano Sonata in D Major, XVI:42, Mark Evan Bonds on the real meaning behind contemporary comparisons of symphonies to the Pindaric ode, and Elaine R. Sisman on Haydn's Shakespeare, Haydn as Shakespeare, and "originality." Finally, Rebecca Green draws on primary sources to place one of Haydn's Goldoni operas at the center of the Eszterháza operatic culture of the 1770s. The book also includes two extensive late-eighteenth-century discussions, translated into English for the first time, of music and musicians in Haydn's milieu, as well as a fascinating reconstruction of the contents of Haydn's library, which shows him fully conversant with the intellectual and artistic trends of the era.