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The Life of Haydn (Paperback)
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The Life of Haydn (Paperback)
Series: Musical Lives
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Presenting a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn,
this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of
the composer's long career. In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree
of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. Later
his historical significance was more restricted, regarded
exclusively as the composer who first recognised the potential of
the symphony and the quartet. However, Haydn had also composed
operas, oratorios and church music with similar enthusiasm and
self-regard. Too easily buttonholed as a Viennese composer, he
interacted consistently with the musical life of Vienna only during
the earliest and latest periods of his life; London was at least as
important in fashioning the composer's fame and legacy. To counter
the genial view of the composer, this biography probes the darker
side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double
dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.
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