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The Cambridge Companion to Haydn
- Editor: Clark, Caryl
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...
The Cambridge Companion to Haydn
- Editor: Clark, Caryl
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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...
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This 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.
Contents
- Part I . Haydn in Context:
- 1. Haydn's career and the idea of the multiple audience Elaine Sisman;
- 2. A letter from the wilderness: revisiting Haydn's Esterhazy environments Rebecca Green;
- 3. Haydn's aesthetics James Webster;
- 4. First among equals: Haydn and his fellow composers David Wyn Jones;
- Part II . Stylistic and Interpretive Contexts:
- 5. Haydn and humour Scott Burnham;
- 6. Haydn's exoticisms: 'difference' and the Enlightenment Matthew Head;
- Part III . Genres:
- 7. Orchestral music: symphonies and concertos David Schroeder;
- 8. The quartets Mary Hunter;
- 9. Intimate expression for a widening public: the keyboard sonatas and trios Michelle Fillion;
- 10. Sacred music James Dack;
- 11. The sublime and the pastoral in The Creation and The Seasons James Webster;
- 12. Miscellaneous vocal genres Katalin Komlos;
- 13. Haydn in the theatre: the operas Caryl Clark;
- Part IV . Performance and Reception:
- 14. A composer, his dedicatee, her instrument, and I: thoughts on performing Haydn's keyboard sonatas Tom Beghin;
- 15. Haydn and posterity: the long nineteenth century James Garrett;
- 16. The kitten and the tiger: Tovey's Haydn Lawrence Kramer;
- 17. Recorded performances: a symphonic study Melanie Lowe.
Awards and reviews
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 is a genial read, as engaging as its subject, and though not all contributions show the razor-sharp edge of Haydn's thought, the best are as lean and relevant as any of his compositions
