Concert Life In Haydn S Vienna

Concert life in Vienna between 1760 and 1810, both public and private, offered an intriguing variety of musical events, here studied through repertoire, business and financial aspects, and the position they held in Vienna's larger cultural wor ld. Also included are five extensive appendices of the concert calendars and patrons.

The life of Haydn is, in the main, a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine (Milan, 1812). The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Stendhal to Schlichtegroll, is practically a reproduction of Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrysostome-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart (Paris, 1801) with one anecdote added from another source. The last letter of the Mozart and the letter on Metastasio are by Stendhal. The notice of Mozart, attributed by Muller to C. Winckler, is by T. F. Winckler

An 1817 English translation of Stendhal's pseudonymous early works on musicians and music, fascinating for the author's many digressions.

Presenting a fresh perspective on the life and work of Joseph Haydn, this biography probes the darker side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.

A survey of Haydn's life and of his musical genius and its impact on posterity; offers detailed information with authoritative analytical commentary. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Reproduction of the original.

The Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was not just a city of music, dance, and coffeehouses - a centre of important achievements in the arts. It was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in the composer's youth and that became a police state during his maturity.