Haydn and the Enlightenment: The Late Symphonies and their Audience (Clarendon Paperbacks)

by David P . Schroeder (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $59.25

  Schroeder here sets out to challenge the widely held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from 18th-century enlightened thinking. By means of both documentary and musical investigation the author seeks instead to present him as a culturally and politically sensitive representative of the Age of Enlightenment.