Haydn, Sacred Music, and Perspectives of the Viennese Classical Triad - Reassessing Haydn's Sacred Works, with Contributions on the Interrelationships of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

The volume presents expanded versions of papers from the symposium "Reassessing Haydn's Sacred Music" co-sponsored by the International Joseph Haydn Private Foundation Eisenstadt and Haydn Society of North America in Eisenstadt in June 2023. The conference featured scholars from Austria, the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, and Slovenia speaking ontopics of liturgical, theological, and stylistic influences on Haydn's sacred repertoire, aesthetics, sources, reception, and Haydn's impacton later sacred music in Eisenstadt and abroad. Other chapters on Haydn's sacred music that were not part of the conference are alsoincluded, along with three studies on interrelationships among the Viennese "triad" Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

About the author

Michael E. Ruhling is Professor of Performing Arts at the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology and Senior Associate Faculty of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. He is a conductor, musicologist and president of the Haydn Society of North America, which he co-founded in 2006.

Product details

• Assisted by: E Ruhling (Editor), Walter Reicher (Editor), Michael E. Ruhling (Editor)
• Publisher: Hollitzer Verlag
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2025
• EAN: 9783990942796
• ISBN: 978-3-99094-279-6
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history