This book challenges the widely held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from eighteenth-century enlightened thinking.

IntroductionPart I Haydn and Enlightened Though 1. Haydn and Shaftesbury: Music and Morality2. Pre-English Literary Influences3. The Lodge `Zur wahren Eintracht

An introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn.

Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn’s career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities. I

This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment. Using Haydn as a