The Cambridge Companion to Haydn by Caryl Clark
An introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn with chapters on Haydn and his contemporaries, reception, keyboard performance practices, and posthumous reputation. Essays also focus on recorded performances, revivals of his operas, the major genres in which Haydn wrote and the lesser known operas.
'The format is inviting … the book puts professionals in touch with some up to date scholarship, while introducing amateur listeners to the musical and cultural worlds Haydn inhabited … It is a genial read, as engaging as its subject, and though not all contributions show the razor-sharp edge of Haydn's thought, the best are as lean and relevant as any of his compositions' Musical Times
'This is an erudite and well-rounded collection and will be a valuable contribution to the literature on Haydn.' Contemporary Review
'There is plenty in this book to engage and challenge … the serious Haydn lover.' Gramophone
'This is an important book for music libraries, particularly in its laying to rest of some myths which have grown up around the composer …' Reference Reviews
'This is an erudite and well-rounded collection and will be a valuable contribution to the literature on Haydn.' Contemporary Review
'There is plenty in this book to engage and challenge … the serious Haydn lover.' Gramophone
'This is an important book for music libraries, particularly in its laying to rest of some myths which have grown up around the composer …' Reference Reviews
Caryl Clark is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Toronto and Visual and Performing Arts at University of Toronto at Scarborough. Her publications about Haydn's operas appear in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Studies in Music, Current Musicology, The Haydn Yearbook, and Early Music. She is co-editor of three special opera issues of The University of Opera Quarterly: Voices of Opera (1998); Opera and Interdisciplinarity (2003); and Opera and Interdisciplinarity II (2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521541077 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521541077 |
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Haydn |
| Author | Caryl Clark |
| Series | Cambridge Companions To Music |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2005-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
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