Overview
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. In the past decade, Haydn studies have progressed enormously. A thematic catalog is now available, and a substantial part of Haydn's vast creative output is accessible in critically revised editions. The new edition of Hayden: A Creatie Life in Music has been substantially rewritten to incorporate the results of recent research and to remove the tarnish that had assimilated on the picture of Haydn in the earlier years.
Full Product Details
Author: Karl Geiringer ,
Irene Geiringer
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Edition: 3rd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780520043176
ISBN 10: 0520043170
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 18 May 1983
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
In part the biography of the man who overcame merciless poverty to become an internationally acclaimed figure, and in part the musician, his slow artistic development to classical perfection. Haydn went to Hamburg at six and then to Vienna's Cathedral of St. Stephen as a chorister until his voice broke at seventeen. There followed a period of hunger, study, and soul-trying work until the fruitful, prolific thirty years under the patronage of the Esterhazy princes. Section two is a critical, music-wise catalogue of Haydn's authentic works, tracing in his five periods his artistic evolution, and considering his influence on and manipulation of almost all of the musical art forms. A monumental, learned piece of research and a needed contribution to music literature by the curator of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna. (Kirkus Reviews)
Author Information
Karl Geiringer (1899 - 1989) was Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including Brahms: His Life and Work, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of an Era, and The Bach Family: Seven Generations of Creative Genius. Irene Geiringer (1899 - 1983) received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, where she studied philosophy and German literature. Mrs. Geiringer assisted her husband in his research and collaborated on all of his books, concentrating in particular on the biographical sections.
