Haydn and the Enlightenment: The Late Symphonies and Their Audience

by David P. Schroeder

Book Overview

This book challenges the widely held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from eighteenth-century enlightened thinking. Schroeder presents Haydn as a culturally and politically sensitive representative of the Age of Enlightenment, arguing that Haydn's awareness of contemporary aesthetic opinion and the tenets of the Enlightenment are reflected by the transformation in his compositional style. He explores Haydn's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019816159X
• ISBN13: 9780198161592
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"