Haydn and His World
"The articles ... are linked by recurring themes and concepts, beyond Haydn, which become increasingly refined as they become illuminated from different disciplinary perspectives... highly recommended for anyone interested in eighteenth-century culture."--German Studies Review
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. Les mer
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 Eszterhaza 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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Princeton University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 325
- ISBN
- 9780691057996
- Utgivelsesår
- 1997
- Format
- 25 x 20 cm
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"The articles ... are linked by recurring themes and concepts, beyond Haydn, which become increasingly refined as they become illuminated from different disciplinary perspectives... highly recommended for anyone interested in eighteenth-century culture."--German Studies Review