The Haydn Economy Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century - New Material Histories of Music

"With this ambitious book, musicologist Nicholas Mathew uses the remarkable career of Joseph Haydn to consider a host of critical issues: how we tell the history of the Enlightenment and Romanticism; the relation of late-eighteenth-century culture to nascent capitalism and European colonialism; and how the modern market and modern aesthetic values were-and remain-inextricably entwined. The Haydn Economy weaves a vibrant material history of Haydn's late career, extending from the sphere of the ancient Esterházy court to his frenetic years as an entrepreneur plying between London and Vienna, to his final decade as a venerable musical celebrity, where he witnessed the transformation of his legacy by a new generation of students and acolytes, Beethoven foremost among them. Ultimately, Mathew claims, Haydn's historical trajectory compels us to ask what we might usefully retain from the cultural and political practices of European modernity--

ISBN:	9780226819846
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Imprint:	The University of Chicago Press
Published date:	30 Aug 2022
DEWEY:	780.92
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	360g
Height:	161mm
Width:	241mm
Spine width:	26mm

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