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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... More…

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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.