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Cambridge University Press
09 May 2019
For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point of comparison. And yet, unlike many other canonic composers, his music has remained a fixture in the repertoire from his day until ours. What do we need to know now in order to understand Haydn and his music? With over eighty entries focused on ideas and seven longer thematic essays to bring these together, this distinctive and richly illustrated encyclopedia offers a new perspective on Haydn and the many cultural contexts in which he worked and left his indelible mark during the Enlightenment and beyond. Contributions from sixty-seven scholars and performers in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, capture the vitality of Haydn studies today - its variety of perspectives and methods - and ultimately inspire further exploration of one of western music's most innovative and influential composers.

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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 158mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   970g
ISBN:   9781107129016
ISBN 10:   110712901X
Pages:   520
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Caryl Clark is Professor of Music History and Culture at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and a Fellow of Trinity College. Editor of the Cambridge Companion to Haydn (Cambridge, 2005), and author of Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage (Cambridge, 2009), her research interests include Enlightenment aesthetics, Haydn, interdisciplinary opera studies, Orpheus, and the politics of musical reception – all generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Sarah Day-O'Connell is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Skidmore College, New York. A recipient of the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women and Music, she has held research fellowships at Yale University, Connecticut, the British Library, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on Haydn, the social contexts of singing, music and gender, theories of performance, and music studies within the liberal arts.

Reviews for The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia

Advance praise: 'This is a fascinating, wide-ranging volume written by leading Haydn scholars from around the world. The simultaneously substantive and incisive essays, a pleasure to read as they enlighten at every turn, ably reflect and build on recent Haydn scholarship. In short, The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia is essential reading for all musicians - performers, listeners, scholars, critics - experienced and inexperienced alike, who want better to understand and appreciate Haydn and his remarkable musical achievements.' Simon P. Keefe, J. R. Hoyle Chair in Music, University of Sheffield, and author of Mozart in Vienna: the Final Decade Advance praise: 'This is a fascinating, wide-ranging volume written by leading Haydn scholars from around the world. The simultaneously substantive and incisive essays, a pleasure to read as they enlighten at every turn, ably reflect and build on recent Haydn scholarship. In short, The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia is essential reading for all musicians - performers, listeners, scholars, critics - experienced and inexperienced alike, who want better to understand and appreciate Haydn and his remarkable musical achievements.' Simon P. Keefe, J. R. Hoyle Chair in Music, University of Sheffield, and author of Mozart in Vienna: the Final Decade


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