The Life of Haydn

Informationen zum Autor David Wyn Jones is Professor of Music and Head of School at Cardiff University and has written extensively on music and musical life in the Classical Period. He is the author of The Symphony in Beethoven's Vienna (2006), The Life of Beethoven (1998), Beethoven: The Pastoral Symphony (1996) and is the editor of Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria (1996), all published by Cambridge University Press. His Companion to Haydn (2002) was awarded the C. B. Oldman Prize by IAML UK. He has contributed to several programmes on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Klappentext The first Haydn biography in 25 years, this book reveals the composer's darker side, double dealing and his troubled marriage. Zusammenfassung In his lifetime Joseph Haydn achieved a degree of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. Presenting a fresh picture of Haydn's life and work! this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of the composer's long career. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. God and country; 2. Serving princes: images of Haydn: 1776; 3. Italian opera at Eszterháza; 4. 'My misfortune is that I live in the country': images of Haydn: 1790; 5. London ViennäLondon; 6. Viennese composer, European composer; 7. 'Gone is all my strength': images of Haydn: 1809.

Klappentext
The first Haydn biography in 25 years, this book reveals the composer's darker side, double dealing and his troubled marriage.


Zusammenfassung
In his lifetime Joseph Haydn achieved a degree of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. Presenting a fresh picture of Haydn's life and work, this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of the composer's long career.

Inhalt
Preface; 1. God and country; 2. Serving princes: images of Haydn: 1776; 3. Italian opera at Eszterháza; 4. 'My misfortune is that I live in the country': images of Haydn: 1790; 5. London ViennäLondon; 6. Viennese composer, European composer; 7. 'Gone is all my strength': images of Haydn: 1809.

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