The Life of Haydn

David Wyn Jones (Cardiff University)

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English

Cambridge University Press
16 April 2009

Music; Music reviews & criticism; Western "classical" music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Musical Lives

Presenting a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn, this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of the composer's long career. In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. Later his historical significance was more restricted, regarded exclusively as the composer who first recognised the potential of the symphony and the quartet. However, Haydn had also composed operas, oratorios and church music with similar enthusiasm and self-regard. Too easily buttonholed as a Viennese composer, he interacted consistently with the musical life of Vienna only during the earliest and latest periods of his life; London was at least as important in fashioning the composer's fame and legacy. To counter the genial view of the composer, this biography probes the darker side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.

By: David Wyn Jones (Cardiff University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 143mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780521895743
ISBN 10: 052189574X
Series: Musical Lives
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 16 April 2009
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Wyn Jones is Professor of Music and Head of School at Cardiff University.

Reviews for The Life of Haydn

The author provides an accessible, insightful, and sympathetically humanistic portrait of the day-to-day existence of the man, bringing to light commonplace practical matters of the life of a musician in the 18th century. --Choice