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Haydn the Years of "the Creation" 1796-1800: Chronicle and Works : The Years of Creation, 1796-1800 (Haydn : Chronicle and Works) by H. C. Robbins Landon, David Wyn Jones is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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The central feature in this volume is The Seasons, and the author provides a detailed analysis, with musical examples, of the oratorio and a history of its origins and development; its libretto, by Baron Gottfried van Swieten (also responsible for the libretto of The Creation), was largely based on the epic poem of the same name by the eighteenth-century Scottish poet James Thomson. Drawing on contemporary documents and newspapers, the author provides a vivid impression of the reactions to Haydn
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- Author
- H. C. Robbins Landon, David Wyn Jones
- Publisher
- Bloomington: Indiana University Press
- Published
- 1978
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780500011669
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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