Playing Before the Lord
Playing Before the Lord

Author: Calvin Stapert

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0802868525

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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 1809) has been called the father of the symphony and the string quartet. A friend of Mozart and a teacher of Beethoven, "Papa" Haydn composed an amazing variety of music -- symphonies, string quartets, concerti, masses, operas, oratorios, keyboard works -- and his prolific output celebrates both the heights and depths of life. In this fascinating book Calvin Stapert combines his skills as a biographer and a musicologist to recount Haydn's steady rise from humble origins to true musical greatness. Unlike other biographers, Stapert argues that Haydn's work was a product of his devout Catholic faith, even though he worked mainly as a court musician and the bulk of his output was in popular genres. In addition to telling Haydn's life story, Stapert includes accessible listening guides to The Creation and portions of other well-known works to help Haydn listeners more fully appreciate the brilliance behind his music.

The Creation
The Creation

Author: Franz Joseph Haydn

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781457489136

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A Choral Worship Cantata in SATB voicing composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, edited by Robert Shaw and Alice Parker.

The New Grove Haydn
The New Grove Haydn

Author: James Webster

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-03-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0195169042

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An in-depth look at the great 18th century Austrian composer, derived and adapted from the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

12 Short Piano Pieces
12 Short Piano Pieces

Author: Franz Joseph Haydn

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781457443176

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Brought together in the early part of the 19th century, some of the pieces in this collection are transcriptions of instrumental works. However, these masterfully constructed miniatures are well suited to keyboard performance and are characteristic of Haydn's humor, tenderness, charm and passion. The selections provide intermediate pianists with a wealth of musical ideas and harmonic invention, and are similar in difficulty to Haydn's Sonatinas.

Haydn
Haydn

Author: Karl Geiringer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780520043176

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This definitive study of the life and works of Joseph Haydn represents half a century of research. As a curator of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Dr. Geiringer was in charge of one of the world's leading Hayden collections. His scholarly investigations took him to various monasteries, to libraries in Eisenstadt, Prague, Berlin, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., and, as a guest of the Hungarian government, to the previously almost inaccessible archives of the Princes of Esterhazy in Budapest. In the past decade, Haydn studies have progressed enormously. A thematic catalog is now available, and a substantial part of Haydn's vast creative output is accessible in critically revised editions. The new edition of Hayden: A Creatie Life in Music has been substantially rewritten to incorporate the results of recent research and to remove the tarnish that had assimilated on the picture of Haydn in the earlier years.

Eight Various Compositions
Eight Various Compositions

Author: Franz Haydn

Publisher: Warner Bros Publications

Published: 1985-03-01

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780769241432

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A collection of Intermediate / Advanced piano solos composed by Franz Joseph Haydn.