The Cambridge companion to Haydn / edited by Caryl Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Caryl Leslie, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809--Criticism and interpretation.

Haydn, Joseph.

Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xx, 318 pages : maps, music ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

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 audiences and aesthetics, his working environments in Eisenstadt and Eszterhaza, 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 Eszterhaza and London.

Contents:

Haydn's career and the idea of the multiple audience / Elaine Sisman

Letter from the wilderness : revisiting Haydn's Esterházy environments / Rebecca Green

Haydn's aesthetics / James Webster

First among equals : Haydn and his fellow composers / David Wyn Jones

Haydn and humor / Scott Burnham

Haydn's exoticisms : "difference" and the Enlightenment / Matthew Head

Orchestral music : symphonies and concertos / David Schroeder

Quartets / Mary Hunter

Intimate expression for a widening public : the keyboard sonatas and trios / Michelle Fillion

Sacred music / James Dack

Sublime and the pastoral in The creation and The seasons / James Webster

Miscellaneous vocal genres / Katalin Komlós

Haydn in the theatre : the operas / Caryl Clark

Composer, his dedicatee, her instrument, and I : thoughts on performing Haydn's keyboard sonatas / Tom Beghin

Haydn and posterity : the long nineteenth century / James Garrett

Kitten and the tiger : Tovey's Haydn / Lawrence Kramer

Recorded performances : a symphonic study / Melanie Lowe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-310) and index.

ISBN:

0521833477

0521541077

OCLC:

57693558

Publisher Number:

9780521833479 (hardcover)

9780521541077 (paperback)