Joseph Haydn (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Townsend, Pauline D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330144635 ISBN 13 : 9781330144633

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Haydn’s life at Esterháza revealed through daily practice, grand spectacle, and quiet genius.

Set against the lavish court of Esterháza, this biography traces how Haydn balanced demanding duties with tireless creativity. It paints a portrait of his workaday world—how the Capelle, the operatic programme, and the prince’s ambitions shaped a master’s output and daily routine. You’ll meet a composer who turned retirement into a forge for invention: a life of long rehearsals, careful leadership of musicians who called him “Father Haydn,” and performances that could fill a palace or charm a quiet village. The book combines architectural splendor, court life, and intimate letters to show how endurance, method, and warmth fueled a prolific career.

• How Esterháza’s palace and gardens framed Haydn’s work and leisure.
• Everyday discipline behind a steady stream of celebrated compositions.
• Relationships with his orchestra, patrons, and the cultural world of Europe.
• Personal moments, letters, and anecdotes that illuminate his character.

Ideal for readers of music history and artist biographies who want a clear picture of the man behind the music and the world that shaped him.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Admired and studied by both Mozart and Beethoven, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) imbued his life-enhancing compositions with wit, elegance and deep emotion. His output was prolific and included symphonies (most notably those written during his two visits to London, where he received a rapturous welcome), string quartets, chamber music, piano sonatas and choral works. This concise biography, first published in 1884, forms part of music critic Francis Hueffer's Great Musicians series, which was intended to provide succinct accounts of popular composers for the general reader. The author, Pauline D. Townsend, drew much of her material for the book from the painstaking research on Haydn published by the German musicologist Carl Ferdinand Pohl, archivist and librarian of the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. A list of Haydn's works forms an appendix, based on the information in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330144635
• ISBN 13: 9781330144633
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 135
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