Reviving Haydn - New Appreciations in the Twentieth Century

Examines the decline and resurgence of Haydn's reputation in an effort to better understand the forces that shape critical reception on a broad scale.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Revival in Context
Haydn's Fall
A Reputation at an Ebb
Recomposing H-A-Y-D-N in Fin de Siecle France
Eccentric Haydn as Teacher
Haydn and the Neglect of German Genius
Schoenberg's Lineage to Haydn
Haydn in American Musical Culture
Croatian Tunes, Slavic Paradigms, and the Anglophone Haydn
The Genesis of Tovey's Haydn
Conclusion: Haydn in the "Bad Old Days"
Appendix: A Note on Methodology and the Russians
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Bryan Proksch

Product details

• Authors: Bryan Proksch, Bryan (Royalty Account) Proksch
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781580465120
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-512-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs