Haydn - Couverture souple

Hadden, J. Cuthbert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444461745 ISBN 13 : 9781444461749

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

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From a humble village in Rohrau to the glittering courts of Europe, Joseph Haydn’s life is one of discipline, invention, wit, and astonishing musical growth. In this clear and engaging biography, J. Cuthbert Hadden follows Haydn from his difficult boyhood and hard years in Vienna to his long service under the Esterh�zy princes, where isolation became the workshop of genius. Here is the composer who helped shape the symphony and the string quartet, the genial craftsman whose humour, faith, patience, and tireless industry transformed eighteenth-century music. Hadden traces the triumphs of the London visits, the creation of The Creation and The Seasons, and the quiet dignity of Haydn’s final years, while also examining the man behind the masterpieces: loyal, shrewd, devout, practical, and warmly human. Rich with letters, anecdotes, historical setting, a catalogue of works, and a portrait of musical Europe in transition, Haydn is both an accessible introduction and a rewarding study for lovers of classical music. It presents not merely a famous name, but a living artist whose melodies carried good sense, sunlight, and structural brilliance into the modern musical world, leaving a legacy that still sounds fresh, balanced, and deeply humane today for listeners and readers alike.

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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) is renowned as one of the most eminent and prolific composers of the classical period of western music. By the end of his life he had become one of the most famous composers in Europe. He developed the musical forms which became the symphony and the string quartet and was also instrumental in the development of the sonata. This volume, first published in 1902 and written by biographer and contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography James Cuthbert Hadden (1861–1914), focuses on Haydn's career and personality rather than his music. Arranged chronologically according to major locations where Haydn visited or lived, Hadden describes Haydn's daily life, character and growing fame in great detail. Based on the first comprehensive biography of Haydn, Carl Ferdinand Pohl's Joseph Haydn, this volume was considered the most complete account of Haydn's life in English at the time of publication.

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