| Contents |
Preface -- Part 1: Life -- Introduction: The Haydns and the Kollers -- Rohrau and Hamburg 1732-1740 -- At St. Stephen's 1740-1749 -- "Making something out of nothing" 1750-1761 -- The honorable officer of a princely court 1761-1766 -- At Eszterhaza 1766-1779 -- Love and friendship 1780-1790 -- Sweet liberty 1790-1792 -- Vienna or London? 1792-1795 -- On a new path 1795-1801 -- Retiring from life 1801-1809 -- An incongruous postlude -- Part 2: Works. -- Introduction: The sources -- Youth, the first period: 1750-1760 -- A phase of transition, the second period -- 1761-1770 -- A romantic crisis, the third period: 1771-1780 -- Maturity, the fourth period: 1781-1790 -- Consummate mastery, the fifth period: 1791-1803 -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract |
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. |
