Research Catalog
The life of Haydn / David Wyn Jones.
- Title
- The life of Haydn / David Wyn Jones.
- Author
- Wyn Jones, David
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML410.H4 W96 2009 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Description
- ix, 253 p. : ill., maps, music; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Presenting a fresh perspective on the life and work of Joseph Haydn, this biography probes the darker side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.
- Series Statement
- Musical lives
- Uniform Title
- Musical lives
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-242) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- God and country -- Serving princes -- Italian opera at Esterháza -- My misfortune is that I live in the country -- London-Vienna-London -- Viennese composer, European composer -- Gone is all my strength.
- ISBN
- 9780521895743 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 052189574X (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008053622
- OCLC
- 261177593
- SCSB-9947581
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library