Haydn’s music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days was meant to be played by professionals and amateurs alike?
With The Virtual Haydn, Tom Beghin―himself a professional keyboard player―delves deeply into eighteenth-century history and musicology...
Tom Beghin is associate professor at McGill University in Montreal and an internationally active performer on historical keyboards. He is coeditor of Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
“Excellent. . . . Provides a close, careful examination of the ways in which rhetorical concepts have impinged on the creation, comprehension, and reception of Haydn’s solo piano works. The book is original in that it goes far beyond the theoretical framework of most musical-rhetorical studies to show how rhetoric influences the performance and auditory perception of 18th-century music. . . . This is a model for future scholarship....
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