Description
"Few musical repertoires have attracted such a convenient and thorough compendium of knowledge." -Early Music News
"A. Peter Brown has performed an excellent service for devotees of early keyboard music, and for all students of eighteenth-century music . . . " -Early Keyboard Journal
"A. Peter Brown has created a unique compendium, discussing all of Haydn's works with keyboard, comparing them and placing them in a variety of contexts, historical, social and scholarly." -Journal of the American Musicological Society
" . . . stimulating . . . a book for which pianists . . . must be thankful." -Journal of the American Liszt Society
Haydn scholar A. Peter Brown offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the composer's keyboard works, encompassing the solo sonatas, keyboard trios, accompanied divertimentos, concertos, concertinos, and Klavierstucke.
Offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the composer's keyboard works
Reviews
This work is highly recommended for all larger public and academic libraries and smaller libraries with specialized music collections.2008
-- Robert L. Wick * American Reference Book Annual 2008 vol. 39 *Book Information
ISBN 9780253331823
Author A. Peter Brown
Format Hardback
Page Count 480
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 934g
