HAYDN LIFE AND WORKS – PREPARATION 7
(F-11)
For Friday
Oct 28
This week's
preparation is about Haydn's biography, personality and character. There are lots of pages to read, but you'll
find them quick and very entertaining.
Please read
the following:
G. A. Griesinger,
"Biographical Notes Concerning Joseph Haydn" (1810), in Vernon Gotwals, Joseph Haydn
– 18th-century Gentleman and Genius (1963), pp. 7-64.
I've posted
the reading online and put the book on reserve in the library.
Also, please
read the following pages from Haydn's letters – The Collected Correspondence and London Notebooks of Joseph Haydn
(trans H.C. Robbins Landon, 1959):
pages date correspondent
3-7 1765-66 Prince Nikolaus
9-11 1768 Applausus performance instructions
11-12 1768 administration of orchestra
18-21 1776 autobiography
22-21 1779 Tonkünstler Society
25-29 1780-81 Artaria
38-42 1782-83 Artaria
90-92 1789 Frau
von Genzinger
96-106 1790 same
111-113 1791 same
from England
115-117 1791 Polzelli
117-120 1791 Genzinger
125-127 1791 Polzelli
131-133 1792 Genzinger
141-143 1794 support
for young composers
154-155 1799 Breitkopf
I've posted
the entire book online (in 40-page fragments), because the library doesn't own
it.
Write a
paragraph discussing one salient trait
of Haydn's character. Illustrate this
trait with examples from Griesinger's biography and
Haydn's letters. If you want to refer to
other sources as well, feel free.
Comment with your own reactions as appropriate.