The Haydn Economy: Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century

by Nicholas Mathew

Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn's career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities.

With this ambitious book, musicologist Nicholas Mathew uses the remarkable career of Joseph Haydn to consider a host of critical issues: how we tell the history of the Enlightenment and Romanticism; the relation of late-eighteenth-century culture to nascent capitalism and European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226819841
• ISBN13: 9780226819846
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.3"