Haydn

Contents: Introduction. Part I Life and Legacy: The earliest biographies of Haydn, Vernon Gotwals; A patron among peers: dedications to Haydn and the economy of celebrity, Emily Green; The falling-out between Haydn and Beethoven: the evidence of the sources, James Webster; The consequences of presumed innocence: the 19th-century reception of Joseph Haydn, Leon Botstein. Part II Creative Impulses: ‘The true fundamentals of composition’: Haydn’s partimento counterpoint, Felix Diergarten; Haydn’s theater symphonies, Elaine R. Sisman; Haydn, Goldoni, and Il mondo della luna, Michael Brago; Engaging strategies in Haydn’s Opus 33 string quartets, Gretchen A. Wheelock; Of saints, name days, and Turks: some background on Haydn’s masses written for Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy, Jeremiah W. McGrann. Part III Aesthetic Frontiers: Haydn, Laurence Sterne, and the origins of musical irony, Mark Evan Bonds; Expressive ambivalence in Haydn’s symphonic slow movements of the 1770s, W. Dean Sutcliffe; Recalling the sublime: the logic of creation in Haydn’s Creation, Lawrence Kramer; Heroic Haydn, the occasional work and ‘modern’ political music, Nicholas Mathew. Part IV Enlightened Performance: On the absence of keyboard continuo in Haydn’s symphonies, James Webster; Haydn’s tempos in The Creation, Nicholas Temperley; Trends, accomplishment, deficiency in Haydn performance today, László Somfai; ‘Delivery, delivery, delivery!’ Crowning the rhetorical process of Haydn’s keyboard sonatas, Tom Beghin; Playing with art: musical arrangements as educational tools in van Swieten’s Vienna, Wiebke Thormählen. Name index.

Biography

David Wyn Jones is Professor of Music at Cardiff University, UK.