Biographies, Classical Composers, Joseph Haydn

Nicholas Temperley's excellent short book Haydn: The Creation answers all the questions a non-specialized listener is likely to have — Washington Post More…

The format is inviting ... the book puts professionals in touch with some up to date scholarship, while introducing amateur listeners to the musical and cultural worlds Haydn inhabited ... It... — Musical Times More…

[Proksch goes beyond previous studies by Botstein and Garratt by illustrating] how the nineteenth-century degradation and the twentieth-century revival of Haydn's music are both linked to the... — Fontes Artis Musicae More…

The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia has much of value and is eminently user-friendly — Gramophone Magazine More…

destined to be seized upon by all piano teachers with cries of joy ... deserves to be bought, consulted, argued over and thumbed for years to come — Music Teacher More…