The Cambridge Companion to Haydn (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Hardcover
This accessible introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn covers his contemporaries, working environments and aesthetics. Chapters on the reception of his music explore keyboard performance practices, Haydn's posthumous reputation, recorded performances and revivals of his operas. The book surveys his major performance genre--including symphonies, string quartets, keyboard sonatas and trios, liturgical music, oratorios, etc...
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This Companion provides an accessible introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn. Contributors provide chapters on Haydn and his contemporaries, his working environments, and his aesthetics. Chapters on the reception of his music explore keyboard performance practices, Haydn's posthumous reputation, recorded performances and images of his symphonies, and revivals of his operas. The book surveys the major genres in which Haydn wrote, including symphonies, string quartets, keyboard sonatas and trios, liturgical music, oratorios, miscellaneous vocal genres, and the lesser known operas composed for Eszterháza and London.
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Caryl Clark is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Toronto and Visual and Performing Arts at University of Toronto at Scarborough. Her publications about Haydn's operas appear in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Studies in Music, Current Musicology, The Haydn Yearbook, and Early Music. She is co-editor of three special opera issues of The University of Opera Quarterly: Voices of Opera (1998); Opera and Interdisciplinarity (2003); and Opera and Interdisciplinarity II (2005).
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0521833477
- ISBN 13 9780521833479
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages338
- EditorClark Caryl
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