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Description

This second volume in the acclaimed new Companion series on major composers is devoted to the immensely prolific Austrian composer and the father of both the symphony and the string quartet.

In more than 900 A-to-Z entries, Haydn's world is brought to vivid life. All of his music is highlighted including his symphonies, concertos, masses, oratorios, operas, string quartets and other chamber works, sonatas, and miscellaneous choral pieces. Family, friends, patrons and contemporaries (Mozart and the young Beethoven among them), ideas, influences, and aesthetics all played a major role in his life and are illuminated throughout the text.

An invaluable resource for students, teachers, and music lovers, this volume contains a wealth of information including maps, a chronology, a list of works, and expert assessments of Haydn's compositions and increasing popularity.

Features

• More than 900 entries, in accessible A-Z order, from Air on the G string to Zink.
• Compiled by the leading Haydn scholars from around the world
• Provides full coverage of Haydn's life - his family, friends, patrons, and contemporaries, the cities where he lived and worked, and the ideas, aesthetics and institutions of his era
• Haydn's music is covered in great detail, from individual pieces and the genres in which he worked, to the instruments for which he composed and the nicknames which some works have acquired over the centuries
• Covers the performance and reception of Haydn's work around the world, both in his lifetime and since his death
• The A-Z text is complemented by a full list of Haydn's works, family trees, maps, a chronology and a bibliography

Reviews

"[A]n invaluable aid to scholars of Haydn and music of his time."--Symphony

"This encyclopedia of Haydn's life, works, and influence could provide the basis for a Hollywood biopic on the composer."--Library Journal [Starred Review]

Product Details

544 pages; 4 music ex., 2 line illus & 1 map; ISBN13: 978-0-19-866216-7ISBN10: 0-19-866216-5

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