| Uniform title | Essays. Selections |
| Variant title |
Joseph Haydn and the 18th century |
| Series |
Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 35
Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 35. ^A281112
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| Contents |
Haydn's artistic and human personality. Joseph Haydn ; The portrait of Haydn over the course of time ; Haydn and his Viennese background ; Haydn's autograph remarks in his music manuscripts ; Haydn's sketches for The Creation ; Joseph Haydn, protagonist of the enlightenment -- Haydn at work: specific fields of his production. The small sacred works by Haydn in the Esterházy archives at Eisenstadt ; Haydn as an opera composer ; From Guglielmi to Haydn: the transformation of an opera ; Haydn and the folksong of the British isles ; Haydn: the London symphonies ; The complete string quartets of Joseph Haydn -- Haydn and his contemporaries. A birthday cantata by Pietro Metastasio and Leonardo Vinci ; Gluck and Haydn ; Concepts of the enlightenment as reflected in Gluck's Italian reform opera ; Gluck's Telemaco ; Emanuel Bach and the music of the Viennese classical triad ; Stephen and Nancy Storace in Vienna -- On Haydn scholars and scholarship. Robert Sondheimer ; Donald Francis Tovey ; Anthony van Hoboken ; Joseph Haydn Institute, Cologne ; Hungarian Academy of Science ; H. C. Robbins Landon -- Doubtful and spurious works attributed to Haydn. |
| Abstract |
This collection of Haydn essays, spanning more than sixty years, is representative of the wide ranging interests of an esteemed scholar and includes published, unpublished, out of print and previously untranslated publications. Concludes with a revised and updated bibliography of Geiringer publications pertaining to Haydn. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography of the works of Karl Geiringer relating to Haydn compiled by David Malvinni and Martin Silver (pages 241-245). |
| LCCN | 2002027251 |
| ISBN | 0899901123 |
