Description
Summary: | A survey of Haydn's life and of his musical genius and its impact on posterity; offers detailed information with authoritative analytical commentary. Acidic paper. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Item Description: | "In this publication the biographical chapters have been abridged and adapted from those previously published in H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works (London and Bloomington, Ind. 1976-80) and Haydn: a documentary study (London and New York 1981); the chapters devoted to Haydn's music have been specially written for this publication by David Wyn Jones"--T.p. verso. |
Physical Description: | 383 p. : ill. (music) ; 26 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0253372658 |