Remarks on the Development of the Art of Music in Germany in the Eighteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. PART I: ESSAYS
5. Haydn, Shakespeare, and the Rules of Originality 3
6. The Creation, Haydn's Late Vocal Music, and the Musical Sublime 57
7. Haydn's London Piano Trios and His Salomon String Quartets: Private vs. Public? 103
8. The Symphony as Pindaric Ode 131
9. Representing the Aristocracy: The Operatic Haydn and Le pescatrici 154
10. Haydn as Orator: A Rhetorical Analysis of his Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Hob. xvi:42 201
11. The Demise of Philosophical Listening: Haydn in the 19th Century 255
12. PART II: DOCUMENTS
13. A Yearbook of the Music of Vienna and Prague, 1796 289
14. Remarks on the Development of the Art of Music in Germany in the Eighteenth Century 321
15. Joseph Haydn's Library: Attempt at a Literary-Historical Reconstruction 395
16. Index 463
17. List of Contributors 473