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Author: Mary Sue Morrow
Publisher: Stuyvesant, [N.Y.] : Pendragon Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcert life in Vienna between 1760 and 1810, both public and private, offered an intriguing variety of musical events, here studied through repertoire, business and financial aspects, and the position they held in Vienna's larger cultural wor ld. Also included are five extensive appendices of the concert calendars and patrons.
Author: Simon McVeigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0521028906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London's cultural life.
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-05-22
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521001922
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Author: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-16
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 052189574X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting 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: John Carnelley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1783270640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full length study of Sir George Thomas Smart (1776-1867), musical animateur and early champion of the music of Beethoven
Author: Caryl Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781107129016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point of comparison. And yet, unlike many other canonic composers, his music has remained a fixture in the repertoire from his day until ours. What do we need to know now in order to understand Haydn and his music? With over eighty entries focused on ideas and seven longer thematic essays to bring these together, this distinctive and richly illustrated encyclopedia offers a new perspective on Haydn and the many cultural contexts in which he worked and left his indelible mark during the Enlightenment and beyond. Contributions from sixty-seven scholars and performers in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, capture the vitality of Haydn studies today - its variety of perspectives and methods - and ultimately inspire further exploration of one of western music's most innovative and influential composers.
Author: DavidWyn Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1351564072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a selection of the most stimulating and influential writing on Haydn and his music in the English language. Written by a range of established and younger scholars it probes a variety of aesthetic, biographical, compositional, performance and reception issues. A specially written introduction summarizes the significance of each essay, directs the reader to appropriate complementary material and seeks the common ground between the essays; to assist with consistent referencing the individual essays retain their original pagination. This representative compendium of Haydn research provides the opportunity to explore the intellectual diversity of recent scholarship and is an indispensable publication for students of Haydn, whether new or old, amateur or professional.
Author: Caryl Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-11-24
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1139827227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn. Readers will gain an understanding of the changing social, cultural, and political spheres in which Haydn studied, worked, and nurtured his creative talent. Distinguished contributors provide chapters on Haydn and his contemporaries, his working environments in Eisenstadt and Eszterháza, and humor and exoticism in Haydn's oeuvre. Chapters on the reception of his music explore keyboard performance practices, Haydn's posthumous reputation, sound recordings and images of his symphonies. The book also surveys the major genres in which Haydn wrote, including symphonies, string quartets, keyboard sonatas and trios, sacred music, miscellaneous vocal genres, and operas composed for Eszterháza and London.
Author: Daniel Heartz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 844
ISBN-13: 9780393037128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians have long tried to place the music of Haydn and Mozart in the lineage of German Lutheran music. In this book, Daniel Heartz shows that the first Viennese school grew from a Catholic inheritance in Italian music and from local tradition, with an admixture of French currents. The generation of composers led by Haydn no longer trained in Italy. By the time young Mozart joined the ranks of the Viennese school, its accomplishments towered above all others of the time. The author's approach can be compared to viewing a majestic mountain range in its totality: the highest peaks take on even greater majesty when seen in their natural context of foothills and lesser peaks. This is how Haydn and Mozart were viewed by their contemporaries, whose world of perception Heartz recreates, using, among other things, the visual art of the period. His focus is on music as a part of cultural history at a particular time and place. Stylistic terms and a priori periods matter less to him than the common denominators of geography, culture, and political history. Book jacket.
Author: John M. Gingerich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1139952080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy couldn't Schubert get his 'great' C-Major Symphony performed? Why was he the first composer to consistently write four movements for his piano sonatas? Since neither Schubert's nor Beethoven's piano sonatas were ever performed in public, who did hear them? Addressing these questions and many others, John M. Gingerich provides a new understanding of Schubert's career and his relationship to Beethoven. Placing the genres of string quartet, symphony, and piano sonata within the cultural context of the 1820s, the book examines how Schubert was building on Beethoven's legacy. Gingerich brings new understandings of how Schubert tried to shape his career to bear on new hermeneutic readings of the works from 1824 to 1828 that share musical and extra-musical pre-occupations, centering on the 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet and the Cello Quintet, as well as on analyses of the A-minor Quartet, the Octet, and of the 'great' C-Major Symphony.
