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The authority for Haydn's life is the biography begun by the late Dr Pohl, and completed after his death by E.V. Mandyczewski. To this work, as yet untranslated, every subsequent writer is necessarily indebted, and the present volume, which I may fairly claim to be the fullest...
Haydn has been called "the father of instrumental music," and although rigid critics may dispute his full right to that title, on broad grounds he must be allowed to have suffic...
3. Chapter 3Vienna--The Forlorn Ex-Chorister--A Good Samaritan--Haydn Enskied--Street Serenades--Joins a Pilgrim Party--An Unconditional Loan--"Attic" Studies--An Early Composition--Metasta...
5. Chapter 5Haydn's Fame extending--Haydn and Mozart compared--Esterhaz--Its Puppet Theatre--A Busy Life--Opera at Esterhaz--First Oratorio--Opponents and Intriguers--"L'Isola Disabitata"--...
2. Chapter 2Introductory--Rohrau--A Poor Home--Genealogy--Haydn's Parents--His Birth--His Precocity--Informal Music-making--His First Teacher--Hainburg--"A Regular Little Urchin"--Attacks t...
8. Chapter 8Beethoven--Takes Lessons from Haydn--The Relations of the Two Composers--The Haydn Museum--Haydn starts for London--His Servant Elssler--The Salomon Concerts--A "Smart" Drummer-...
6. Chapter 6English Music about 1791--Salomon--Mozart and Haydn--Terms for London--Bonn and Beethoven--Haydn Sea-Sick--Arrives in London--An Enthusiastic Welcome--Ideas of the Metropolis--A...
7. Chapter 7was then invested with the degree. Handel's latest biographer, Mr W. S. Rockstro, says that the Oxford fees would have cost Handel 100 pounds. Haydn's note of the expense is not...
4. Chapter 4The Esterhazy Family--Haydn's Agreement--An "Upper Servant"?--Dependence in the Order of Nature--Material and Artistic Advantages of the Esterhazy Appointment--Some Disadvantage...
11. Chapter 11Something of Haydn's person and character will have already been gathered from the foregoing pages. He considered himself an ugly man, and, in Addison's words, thought that the...
9. Chapter 9Haydn rounded his life with "The Creation" and "The Seasons." They were the summit of his achievement, as little to be expected from him, considering his years, as "Falstaff" wa...
10. Chapter 10Little is left to be told of the years which followed the production of "The Seasons." Haydn never really recovered from the strain which that last great effort of his genius ha...
1. Chapter 1The authority for Haydn's life is the biography begun by the late Dr Pohl, and completed after his death by E.V. Mandyczewski. To this work, as yet untranslated, every subsequen...