Haydn and the Enlightenment
The Late Symphonies and their Audience
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 16 October 1997
- ISBN 9780198166825
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 235x157x14 mm
- Weight 371 g
- Language English
- Illustrations music examples throughout 0
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Short description:
Schroeder here sets out to challenge the widely held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from 18th-century enlightened thinking. By means of both documentary and musical investigation the author seeks instead to present him as a culturally and politically sensitive representative of the Age of Enlightenment.
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This book sets out to challenge the widely-held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from eighteenth-century enlightened thinking. By means of both documentary and musical investigation the author seeks instead to present him as a culturally and politically sensitive representative of the Age of the Enlightenment. Of fundamental importance in this survey is Haydn's relationship with his audience, which, it is argued, had a significant bearing on the nature of the works. The author suggests that Haydn was well acquainted with the contemporary view that works of literature or music should serve a moral function and he points to numerous instances in the late symphonies where this end is effectively pursued.
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Introduction; Part I: Haydn and Enlightened Thought: Haydn and Shaftesbury: Music and morality; Pre-English literary influences; The Lodge 'Zur wahren Eintracht'; Opera, rhetoric, and Rittergedichte; String quartets, OP. 33: 'A New and Special Way'; Theory versus practice: Aesthetics and instrumental music; Symphonic ascent: Pre-Paris to the Loge Olympique; Part II: Audience Reception and England: The composer-audience relationship; Haydn and the English audience; Part III: The Symphonies: Symphonic intelligibility and sonata form; Melodic sources and musical images; Symphonies and the Salomon concerts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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