
Haydn and the Enlightenment
The Late Symphonies and their Audience
Schroeder(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 16. October 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-0-19-816682-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book sets out to challenge the widely-held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from eighteenth-century enlightened thinking. By means of both documentary and musical investigation the author seeks instead to present him as a culturally and politically sensitive representative of the Age of the Enlightenment. Of fundamental importance in this survey is Haydn's relationship with his audience, which, it is argued, had a significant bearing on the nature of the works. The author suggests that Haydn was well acquainted with the contemporary view that works of literature or music should serve a moral function and he points to numerous instances in the late symphonies where this end is effectively pursued.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
music examples throughout
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-816682-5 (9780198166825)
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Content
Introduction; Part I: Haydn and Enlightened Thought: Haydn and Shaftesbury: Music and morality; Pre-English literary influences; The Lodge 'Zur wahren Eintracht'; Opera, rhetoric, and Rittergedichte; String quartets, OP. 33: 'A New and Special Way'; Theory versus practice: Aesthetics and instrumental music; Symphonic ascent: Pre-Paris to the Loge Olympique; Part II: Audience Reception and England: The composer-audience relationship; Haydn and the English audience; Part III: The Symphonies: Symphonic intelligibility and sonata form; Melodic sources and musical images; Symphonies and the Salomon concerts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index