Haydn’s Last Creative Period

This volume focuses on one of the most crucial parts of Haydn’s career—a key era in which the experiments of the 1770s arrived at the consolidation and definition of new compositional forms and practices in the 1780s. The ‘mature’ Haydn represents a musician marked by full creative ferment in all musical genres and reveals the profile of a composer at the peak of his career. Through new research, this book examines the views of Haydn’s compositional practice as both self-aware and as adaptations based on the public’s changing tastes. Such was an achievement that Haydn obtained without betraying the principles of balance, solidity and expressiveness that he developed during decades of musical practice at the Esterházy court.

Biography and Reception

János Malina, Orfeo and Armida, Don Juan and Figaro: New Light on the Busiest Decade of Haydn’s Career

Sterling E. Murray, Haydn and the Oettingen-Wallerstein Court: A Study in Musical Patronage and Stylistic Intent

Nancy November, Late Haydn for the Home: Arrangements of the London Symphonies in the Nineteenth Century

Bryan Proksch, Age, Infirmity, and Oldness in the Early Biographies of Haydn

Christian Speck, Ein Haydn-Gemälde von Julius Schmid im Kontext der Korrektur der Haydn-Rezeption durch Guido Adler

Musical Form and Analysis

L. Poundie Burstein, Paths and Pauses within Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 16

Lauri Suurpää, New Path to Conventional Goals: Formal Reinterpretation in the First-Movement Recapitulations of Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 94 and 98

Floyd Grave, Convention, Reinvention, and the Play of Contraries in the First Movement of Haydn’s Concerto for Keyed Trumpet

Halvor K. Hosar, Sonata/Fugue Mixtures in Haydn’s Late Masses: History and Form

James S. MacKay, Baroque Polyphony and Intelligent Conversation: Joseph Haydn’s String Quartets from Opus 20 to Opus 76

Rhetoric and Intertextuality

Stephanie Klauk – Rainer Kleinertz, Haydn’s String Quartet Production after Opus 33

Anatole Leikin, Performing Expressive Rhetorical Devices in the First Movement of Haydn’s Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Hob. xvi:49

Federico Gon, «A Time for War and a Time for Peace»: The Symphony No. 100 by Joseph Haydn and the Revolutionary Events of 1793

Balázs Mikusi, The Spider and the Bee, or How Does Mozart Come into Haydn’s The Seasons?

John A. Rice, The Bergamasca Schema in Late Haydn