The Life of Haydn
Part of Musical Lives
- Author: David Wyn Jones, Cardiff University
- Date Published: January 2013
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107610811
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Presenting a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn, this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of the composer's long career. In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. Later his historical significance was more restricted, regarded exclusively as the composer who first recognised the potential of the symphony and the quartet. However, Haydn had also composed operas, oratorios and church music with similar enthusiasm and self-regard. Too easily buttonholed as a Viennese composer, he interacted consistently with the musical life of Vienna only during the earliest and latest periods of his life; London was at least as important in fashioning the composer's fame and legacy. To counter the genial view of the composer, this biography probes the darker side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.
Read more- Charts Haydn's life and career, including his formative years as a musician and his travels in England, where a number of his most famous works were composed
- Reveals new material on Haydn and represents a broader outlook on his personality and his times
- The narrative is interspersed with fascinating extracts from contemporary accounts of Haydn
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- Date Published: January 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107610811
- length: 262 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 137 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- contains: 13 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. God and country
2. Serving princes: images of Haydn:
1776
3. Italian opera at Eszterháza
4. 'My misfortune is that I live in the country': images of Haydn:
1790
5. London–Vienna–London
6. Viennese composer, European composer
7. 'Gone is all my strength': images of Haydn:
1809.
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