The Haydn Economy: Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century Mathew Nicholas
Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn's career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities.With this ambitious book, musicologist…
Specifikacia The Haydn Economy: Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century Mathew Nicholas
Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn's career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities.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 Esterhzy 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