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The Creation
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After spending most of his adult life ensconced comfortably as head of music at the grand palace court at Esterházy, Franz Josef Haydn, at 68, began a new chapter of his career. The music-loving Prince Nikolaus died and was succeeded by his son, Anton. Haydn’s duties were greatly curtailed. Comfortably situated with a pension and the freedom to travel, he was more a free agent than he had ever been. He accepted an offer to travel to London from the savvy impresario Johann Peter Salomon. In London, Haydn not only had the opportunity to compose for large orchestras and create his most mature, developed symphonies but also to behold choral music making in its most grandiose form. By that point, some thirty years after his death, Handel had been lionized and embraced as a national treasure, his oratorios and ceremonial works performed frequently, beefed up to gargantuan proportions the likes of which Haydn had never experienced. Haydn returned to Austria and settled in Vienna, where his friend, mentor, and librettist, the Baron Von Swieten tried to entice him to try his hand at oratorio. When Haydn embarked on his second trip to London (August ), he was tot
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Haydn's Creation primate a Harmonious Response outdo the Enlightenment
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The Haydn Economy: Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century
Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
1 Commerce
2 Interest
3 Objects
4 Work
Epilogue: Value ()
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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The Haydn Economy
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