Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn[a] (/ˈhaɪdən/ HY-dən, German: [ˈfʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdn̩] ; 31 March[b] 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio.[2] His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String quartet".[3][4]
"Haydn" redirects here. For other uses, see Haydn (disambiguation).
Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their Eszterháza Castle. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original".[c] Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.
He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a tutor of Beethoven, and the elder brother of composer Michael Haydn.
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(1965). Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford: Stanford University Press – via Internet Archive.
Deutsch, Otto Erich
(1810). Biographische Nachrichten von Joseph Haydn nach mündlichen Erzählungen desselben entworfen und herausgegeben [Biographical Accounts of Joseph Haydn, written and edited from his own spoken narratives]. Vienna: Camesinaische Buchhandlung. English translation in: Dies, Albert Christoph (1963). "Biographical Accounts of Joseph Haydn". In Gotwals, Vernon (ed.). Haydn: Two Contemporary Portraits. (translation by Vernon Gotwals). Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-02791-9. One of the first biographies of Haydn, written on the basis of 30 interviews carried out during the composer's old age.
Dies, Albert Christoph
, Ludwig (2000). Joseph Haydn und seine Zeit. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-921518-94-6. Highly detailed discussion of life and work; in German.
Finscher
; Geiringer, Irene (1982). Haydn: A Creative Life in Music (3rd ed.). University of California. ISBN 978-0-520-04316-9. The first edition was published in 1946 with Karl Geiringer as the sole author.
Geiringer, Karl
(1963). "Biographical Notes Concerning Joseph Haydn". In Vernon Gotwals (ed.). Haydn: Two Contemporary Portraits. Translated by Vernon Gotwals. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-02791-9. A translation from the original German: Biographische Notizen über Joseph Haydn (1810). Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. Like Dies's, a biography produced from interviews with the elderly Haydn.
Griesinger, Georg August
Hughes, Rosemary (1970). Haydn (Revised ed.). New York: . ISBN 978-0-460-02281-1. Originally published in 1950. Gives a sympathetic and witty account of Haydn's life, along with a survey of the music.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(2009a). The Life of Haydn. Oxford University Press. Focuses on biography rather than musical works; an up-to-date study benefiting from recent scholarly research on Haydn's life and times.
Jones, David Wyn
Jones, David Wyn (2009b). Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn. Oxford University Press. A comprehensive one-volume collection of detailed contributions by Haydn scholars.
(1976–1980). Haydn: Chronicle and Works. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-37003-7. An extensive compilation of original sources in five volumes.
Landon, H. C. Robbins
Landon, H. C. Robbins; (1988). Haydn: His Life and Music. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-37265-9. Biography chapters by Robbins Landon, excerpted from Landon 1976–1980 and rich in original source documents. Analysis and appreciation of the works by Jones.
Jones, David Wyn
(1980). "Joseph Haydn". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Published separately as The New Grove: Haydn. New York: Norton. 1982. ISBN 978-0-393-01681-9.
Larsen, Jens Peter
Redfern, Brian L. (1970). . Archon Books. ISBN 978-0-208-00886-2.
Haydn: A Biography, with a Survey of Books, Editions & Recordings
; Feder, Georg (2001). "Joseph Haydn". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Published separately as a book: The New Grove Haydn. New York: Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-516904-1. Careful scholarship with little subjective interpretation; covers both life and music, and includes a very detailed list of works.
Webster, James
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(2010). "Aspekte des Erhabenen in Haydns Spätwerk". In Celestini, Federico; Dorschel, Andreas (eds.). Arbeit am Kanon. Vienna: Universal Edition. pp. 16–41. ISBN 978-3-7024-6967-2. On the sublime in Haydn's later works; in German.
Celestini, Federico
Clark, Caryl, ed. (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Haydn. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83347-9. Covers each of the genres Haydn composed in as well as stylistic and interpretive contexts and performance and reception.
Cambridge Companions to Music
Clark, Caryl; Day-O'Connell, Sarah, eds. (2019). The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. 9781107129016. Sixty-seven scholars contribute over eighty entries as well as seven longer thematic essays on biography and identity, ideas, institutions, musical materials, people and networks, performance, and place.
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Hughes, Rosemary (1966). Haydn String Quartets. London: BBC. A brief (55-page) introduction to Haydn's string quartets.
(2012). Haydn, Mozart und die Großfürstin. Eine Studie zur Uraufführung der "Russischen Quartette" op. 33 in den Kaiserappartements der Wiener Hofburg (in German). Vienna: Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. ISBN 978-3-901568-72-5.
Macek, Bernhard A.
Sutcliffe, W. Dean (1992). Haydn, string quartets, op. 50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-39103-0. Covers not just Op. 50 but also its relevance to Haydn's other output as well as his earlier quartets.
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Tolley, Thomas (2017). "'Divorce a la mode': The Schwellenberg Affair and Haydn's Engagement with English Caricature". Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography. 42 (1–2): 273–307. 1522-7464.
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