| Contents |
Musical life in Vienna. The Hofburg ; Churches. The Augustinerkirche, or Hofkirche ; The Karlskirche ; The cathedral ; Other churches in city and suburbs -- Theaters. Serious opera in Italian ; The German theater at the Karntnerthor ; The French theater, or Burgtheater ; Joseph II's national theater -- Concerts. Incipient musical academies ; Gumpenhuber's repertoires (1758-63) ; From 1764 to the Mozart era ; The Redoutensaal and other ballrooms -- Booksellers, publishers, and instrument makers -- Court composers 1740-65. Reutter and Tuma ; Monn and Birck ; Wagenseil. Early works ; Euridice, a pasticcio of 1750 ; Overtures and symphonies ; Divertimenti for harpsichord ; Concertos and concerted works ; The trailblazer -- Bonno ; Ziegler and Schloger ; Starzer and Asplmayer ; A musical monarch ; Crisis in 1760-61: Reutter versus Durazzo -- Gluck and the operatic reform. Early works ; Calzabigi and the Lettre of 1756 ; Opera-comique ; Traetta's Armida (1761) ; Pantomime ballet ; Don Juan, ou le Festin de Pierre (1761) ; Orfeo ed Euridice (1762). Interlude (1763-65) -- Alceste (1766-67) -- Haydn: early years to ca. 1770. Youth in Vienna. Earliest compositions ; The Quartet-Divertimenti (op. 1 and op. 2) -- From Morzin to Esterhazy service, ca. 1759-62 ; The symphonist gathers momentum. "Church symphonies" and minor-mode symphonies -- Sacred music. The First missa cellensis ; Stabat Mater ; The great organ mass -- Keyboard music -- Haydn: the 1770s. String quartets. Opus 9 ; Opus 17 ; Opus 20 -- Symphonies: perfection of the cyclic principle ; Opera and oratorio. Le Pescatrici (1769-70) ; L'infedelta Delusa (1773) ; Il Ritorno Di Tobia (1775) ; L'incontro improviso (1775) ; 1777-1780 -- The turning point of 1780 -- Haydn's contemporaries. Gassmann ; Salieri ; Ditters ; Vanhal ; Hofmann ; Ordonez ; Albrechtsberger ; Steffan -- Mozart, apprentice. Salzburg and the Archepiscopal court music ; The child prodigies on tour, 1762-66 ; Vienna, 1767-68 ; La finta semplice and Bastien Und Bastienne ; Early sacred music ; Michael Haydn ; Three operas for Habsburg Milan ; Symphonies and chamber music from 1770 to early 1773 -- Mozart, Journeyman. Symphonic and chamber music. The Viennese Quartets of 1773 ; Symphonies -- Finalmusik and the popular element ; The keyboard. The sonatas of 1774-75 ; Three solo sonatas from 1777-78 ; The duo sonatas with violin -- La finta giardiniera and Il re pastore ; Concerto and concertante. 1773-1777 ; Mannheim and Paris, 1777-78 ; Salzburg, 1779-80 -- Mozart, master craftsman. Sacred music. Mass settings from 1773-74 ; Breakthrough in 1774 ; The masses of 1775-77 ; Zenith in 1779-80 ; The Munich Kyrie -- Thamos, Zaide, and the approaches to Idomeneo ; Idomeneo -- Conclusion -- Appendicies. "The present state of the court- and chamber-music" ; An annotated translation of Calzabigi's letter on Alceste to Prince Kaunitz ; "Species facti" givben by Leopold Mozart to Emperor Joseph II on 21 September 1768. |
| Abstract |
Historians have long tried to place the music of Haydn and Mozart in the lineage of German Lutheran music. In this book, the author shows that the first Viennese school grew from a Catholic inheritance in Italian music and from local tradition, with an admixture of French currents. Lavishly illustrated with music examples and reproductions, both in black and white and color, this long-awaited master study will be of great interest to scholars, cultural historians, performers, and all intelligent music lovers. |
