The Life of Haydn


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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.




The Life and Times of Franz Joseph Haydn


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Discusses the life and career of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer.




Life of Haydn


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The New Grove Haydn


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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.




The Life of Haydn


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The life of Haydn is, in the main, a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine (Milan, 1812). The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Stendhal to Schlichtegroll, is practically a reproduction of Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrysostome-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart (Paris, 1801) with one anecdote added from another source. The last letter of the Mozart and the letter on Metastasio are by Stendhal. The notice of Mozart, attributed by Muller to C. Winckler, is by T. F. Winckler




Life of Haydn


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"Life of Haydn" by Ludwig Nohl and translated by George P. Upton gives readers a chance to sink into the life of one of music's most seminal figures. Haydn was an important Austrian composer and the respect Nohl feels for him is palpable. Even if you've never picked up an instrument, you'll find yourself in tears while reading about Haydn's amazing career.




Playing Before the Lord


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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.




Haydn


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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.




Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers


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This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.




Concert Life in Haydn's Vienna


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Concert 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.