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100 1 a| Landon, H. C. Robbinsq| (Howard Chandler Robbins),d| 1926-2009.=| ^A22637;

245 10 a| Horns in high C :b| a memoir of musical discoveries and adventures /c| H. C. Robbins Landon.;

300 a| 176 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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500 a| Includes index.;

505 0 a| Massachusetts Bay Colony: growing up in Lancaster, 1926-1947 -- The Haydn Society: Boston and Vienna, 1949-1951 -- Behind the Iron Curtain: Haydn research in eastern Europe, 1958-1959 -- Broadcasting: BBC radio 1954-1958 and television 1963-1982, and other programmes -- Research in Austria and Germany: Gottweig Abbey and Donaueschingen, 1949-1957 -- Haydn opera revivals: Holland Festival productions, 1959-1970 -- Italian adventure: living in Tuscany, 1959-1973 -- Austrian cottage: a writer's retreat in the Waldviertel, 1975-1984 -- Welsh rectory: teaching in Cardiff and elsewhere, 1978-1984 -- French chateau: at home in the Tarn, 1984 to the present.;

520 a| Now a well-known authority on music in Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries, H.C. Robbins Landon decided on his choice on career as a schoolboy in the 1940s. His goal of rediscovering the music of Joseph Haydn and bringing it to a broad cross-section of music-lovers and scholars has been achieved through his numerous editions of scores, recordings and broadcasts, as well as his writing. In these recollections of his upbringing and student years in the United States, followed by military service in the US Army and an adventurous career based largely in Europe, the author offers an account of his single-minded quest. The background to discoveries made in obscure archives in Austria and Eastern Europe, often accompanied by accounts of hair-raising experiences in dealing with the authorities in communist countries in the 1950s and 1960s, are interspersed with many revealing anecdotes concerning the leading figures in music in over 50 years, including Herbert von Karajan, Walter Legge, George Szell, Hans Keller, Leonard Bernstein and Sir Georg Solti.;

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Horns in high C : a memoir of musical discoveries and adventures / H. C. Robbins Landon.

Author/creator	Landon, H. C. Robbins
Format	Book
Publication Info	[London] : Thames and Hudson, ©1999.
Description	176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Landon, H. C. Robbins (Howard Chandler Robbins), 1926-2009. Musicologists--United States. --Biography. Musicians--United States. --Biography.

Contents	Massachusetts Bay Colony: growing up in Lancaster, 1926-1947 -- The Haydn Society: Boston and Vienna, 1949-1951 -- Behind the Iron Curtain: Haydn research in eastern Europe, 1958-1959 -- Broadcasting: BBC radio 1954-1958 and television 1963-1982, and other programmes -- Research in Austria and Germany: Gottweig Abbey and Donaueschingen, 1949-1957 -- Haydn opera revivals: Holland Festival productions, 1959-1970 -- Italian adventure: living in Tuscany, 1959-1973 -- Austrian cottage: a writer's retreat in the Waldviertel, 1975-1984 -- Welsh rectory: teaching in Cardiff and elsewhere, 1978-1984 -- French chateau: at home in the Tarn, 1984 to the present.
Abstract	Now a well-known authority on music in Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries, H.C. Robbins Landon decided on his choice on career as a schoolboy in the 1940s. His goal of rediscovering the music of Joseph Haydn and bringing it to a broad cross-section of music-lovers and scholars has been achieved through his numerous editions of scores, recordings and broadcasts, as well as his writing. In these recollections of his upbringing and student years in the United States, followed by military service in the US Army and an adventurous career based largely in Europe, the author offers an account of his single-minded quest. The background to discoveries made in obscure archives in Austria and Eastern Europe, often accompanied by accounts of hair-raising experiences in dealing with the authorities in communist countries in the 1950s and 1960s, are interspersed with many revealing anecdotes concerning the leading figures in music in over 50 years, including Herbert von Karajan, Walter Legge, George Szell, Hans Keller, Leonard Bernstein and Sir Georg Solti.
General note	Includes index.
LCCN	00361096
ISBN	0500019320
ISBN	9780500019320

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