Handel, Haydn, and the Viennese Classical Style Hardcover - 1988

Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1988. Hardcover. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Aqua cloth boards with gilt lettering; bw illustrated dj with blue lettering, mylar cover; xii, 332 pp. Essays originally published 1935-1985; those originally in German here published in English translations for the 1st time. Contents include: Handel. Handel : the great European -- Problems of the Handel tradition -- Oratorio versus opera -- G. F. Handel's operas and oratorios : form, typology, and performance practice -- Esther and the origin of the Handelian oratorio tradition -- The development of Handelian oratorio and Messiah -- Changing conceptions of Handel's Messiah -- Handelian tempo problems and Messiah. Haydn. The challenge of Joseph Haydn -- On Haydn's artistic development -- Haydn and Mozart -- Problems of authenticity in music from the time of Haydn to Mozart -- Haydn's early Masses : evolution of a genre -- Beethoven's C-major Mass and the late Masses of Joseph Haydn -- Haydn's early symphonies : the problem of dating -- Haydn and Das kleine Quartbuch -- The Haydn tradition. Viennese Classical style. Some observations on the development and characteristics of Viennese Classical instrumental music -- Towards an understanding of the development of the Viennese Classical style -- On the importance of the "Mannheim School" -- Sonata form problems -- Traditional prejudices in connection with Viennese Classical music -- Period style ; Generation style -- The style change in Austrian music between the Baroque and Viennese Classicism -- Concerning the development of the Austrian symphonic tradition (circa 1750-1775).