Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven, 1781-1802 / Daniel Heartz.

Author/creator Heartz, Daniel
Format Book
Edition1st edition.
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton, ©2009.
Descriptionxviii, 846 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm
Subjects
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
Composers--Biography.
Music--18th century. --History and criticism.

Contents Mozart, 1781-1785. Return to Vienna ; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail ; Dramaturgical concerns ; Clavierland! Salzburg and Vienna ; Joseph II and other patrons. The "Linz" symphony ; Baron van Swieten ; Freemasonry ; Six string quartets dedicated to Haydn ; The piano concertos of 1784 ; 1785: Leopold's visit, more concertos -- Mozart, 1785-1788. The approaches to Figaro ; Le nozze di Figaro ; Post-Figaro chamber music ; On the way to Prague. The "Prague" symphony ; Figaro in the Nostitz theater ; String quintets ; Interlude ; Don Giovanni ; 1788: three late symphonies -- Mozart, 1789-1791. Saxony, Prussia, chamber music ; Cosi fan tutte ; Leopold II: sacred music. The requiem ; Die Zauberflote ; La clemenza di Tito -- Haydn: the 1780s. String quartets, opus 33 ; Sacred music and opera. The second Missa Cellensis ; Orlando Paladino ; Armida ; The Seven Last Words ; Symphonies. Symphonies nos. 75-81 ; Contexts for the Paris symphonies ; The Paris symphonies, nos. 82-87 ; Symphonies nos. 88-92 ; String quartets. Opus 50 ; Mozart and Haydn ; Opera 54-55 ; Opus 64 ; Piano sonatas and trios ; Departure -- Haydn in London, 1791-1795. The first months. Orfeo ed Euridice ; Salomon's 1791 concerts. Symphonies nos. 95-96 ; The London notebooks ; Summer 1791-Winter 1792 ; Salmon's 1792 concerts. Symphonies nos. 93-94 ; Symphonies nos. 97-98 ; Interim in Vienna. String quartets, opera 71-74 ; Salomon's 1794 concerts. Symphony no. 99 ; Symphonies nos. 100-101 ; Other events of 1794 ; Piano trios and sonatas, 1794-95 ; The opera concerts, 1795. Symphony no. 102 ; Symphony no. 103 ; Symphony no. 104 -- Haydn: late harvest. Vienna 1795-96. Die Sieben letzten Worte ; Missa Sancti Bernardi de Offida ("Heiligmesse") ; Missa in Tempore Belli ; The trumpet concerto ; String quartets, opus 76 ; The Creation ; Sacred music, 1798-1800. Missa in Angustiis ("Nelson" mass) ; "Theresienmesse" ; Te deum laudamus, Admiral Nelson ; String quartets, opus 77 ; The Seasons ; Valediction. Schopfungsmesse ; Harmoniemesse ; Last years -- Beethoven in Bonn and in Vienna. Heritage ; A Rhine journey ; First compositions. A fortnight in Vienna ; Last Bonn years. The Joseph and Leopold cantatas ; Departure ; First Vienna years. Trios, opus 1, and sonatas, opus 2 ; A journey to Berlin ; 1797-1798 ; At the turn of the century. Piano sonatas ; String quartets, opus 18 ; Symphony no. 1 in C major ; The creatures of Prometheus ; The year 1802 ; Symphony no. 2 in D major -- Appendices. An Irish tenor in the Burgtheater ; Sarti witnesses Haydn's Armida.
Abstract Completing the trilogy begun with Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School, 1740-1780 and continued, in Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780, Daniel Heartz concludes his extensive chronicle of the Classical Era with this much-anticipated third Volume. Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven, 1781-1802 winds up the careers of Mozart and Haydn and describes Beethoven's first decade in Vienna, when he began composing by patterning his works on the two masters. The tumult and instability of the French Revolution and Napoleon's rise to power serve as a vivid historical backdrop for the tale
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 803-817) and index.
LCCN 2008025037
ISBN9780393066340 (hardcover)
ISBN0393066347 (hardcover)

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