Haydn: A Creative Life in Music - Hardcover

Geiringer, Karl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520043162 ISBN 13: 9780520043169

Publisher: UNIV OF CA PRESS+, 1992

Synopsis

Studies the life and career of the Austrian composer, providing a critical analysis of his contributions to the music world.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This definitive study of the life and works of Joseph Haydn represents half a century of research. As curator of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Dr. Geiringer was in charge of one of the world's leading Haydn collections. His scholarly investigations took him to various monasteries, to libraries in Eisenstadt, Prague, Berlin, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., and, as guest of the Hungarian government, to the previously almost inaccessible archives of the Princes of Esterhazy in Budapest.

About the Author:

Karl Geiringer (1899 - 1989) was Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including Brahms: His Life and Work, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of an Era, and The Bach Family: Seven Generations of Creative Genius. Irene Geiringer (1899 - 1983) received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, where she studied philosophy and German literature. Mrs. Geiringer assisted her husband in his research and collaborated on all of his books, concentrating in particular on the biographical sections. 

About this edition

• Publisher: UNIV OF CA PRESS+
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520043162
• ISBN 13: 9780520043169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 403