Haydn: A Creative Life in Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520043176)

This definitive study of the life and works of Joseph Haydn represents half a century of research. As a curator of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Dr. Geiringer was in charge of one of the world's leading Hayden collections. His scholarly investigations took him to various monasteries, to libraries in Eisenstadt, Prague, Berlin, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., and, as a guest of the Hungarian government, to the previously almost inaccessible archives of the Princes of Esterhazy in Budapest. In the past decade, Haydn studies have progressed enormously. A thematic catalog is now available, and a substantial part of Haydn's vast creative output is accessible in critically revised editions. The new edition of Hayden: A Creatie Life in Music has been substantially rewritten to incorporate the results of recent research and to remove the tarnish that had assimilated on the picture of Haydn in the earlier years.

Author: Karl Geiringer
ISBN-10: 0520043170
ISBN-13: 9780520043176
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/18/1983
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.92w x 1.05d