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Joseph Haydn's Keyboard Music

Sources and Style

by A. Peter Brown

Haydn expert A. Peter Brown offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the composer's keyboard works, encompassing the solo sonatas, keyboard trios, accompanied divertimentos, concertinas and Klavierstücke.


Brown first establishes that Haydn was an effective performer on the keyboard instruments of his day. Then, drawing on the latest findings, he devotes two essays to questions of authenticity and dating of keyboard works attributed to Haydn, and another to the central issue for eighteenth- century keyboard music: which instrument is most appropriate for a given work?


In investigating the possible influences on Haydn of the Viennese tradition and of C. P. E. Bach, the author concludes that Haydn learned from both but put his own stamp on everything to which he was exposed. In the last three essays, Brown traces the development of Haydn's musical language, describing the relationship of certain genres in the composer's oeuvre and providing a chronological examination of the structure and style of the works in each category.


Haydn's contributions to the symphony and the string quartet have long been acknowledged. This meticulously documented study now celebrates Haydn's accomplishments in the realm of keyboard music.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Identification of Haydn’s Works
  • Collation of Numberings of Haydn’s Keyboard Trios
  • Collation of Numberings of Haydn’s Solo Sonatas
  • Library Sigla
  • Abbreviations
  • Part One: Sources
    • I. Introduction: Haydn and the Keyboard, a Revisionist View
    • II. The Keyboard Works in Biographical, Critical, and Musical Documents
      • Viennese and Esterházy Works to 1791
      • Works Written in and for London, 1791—1795
      • Last Years in Vienna, 1796—1803
    • III. Authenticity
      • Solo Sonatas
      • Trios
      • Accompanied Divertimentos and Concertinos
      • Klavierstücke
      • Concertos
      • Arrangements
      • Works Transmitted in Dual Settings
    • IV. Dating and Chronology
      • Solo Sonatas
      • Trios
      • Accompanied Divertimentos and Concertinos
      • Klavierstücke
      • Concertos
    • V. The Question of Keyboard Idiom
      • Haydn’s Keyboard Instruments
      • The Fortepiano in Vienna
      • Haydn’s Keyboard Terminology
      • Dynamic Markings and Tragen der Töne
      • Realization of Idiomatic Styles
    • VI. The Viennese Keyboard Tradition
      • The Imperial Repertoire
      • Solo Keyboard Works
      • Accompanied Keyboard Works
      • Concertos
    • VII. Joseph Haydn and C. P. E. Bach: The Question of Influence
      • Early Documents and Their Dissemination
      • The Musicological Literature of the Twentieth Century
      • Distribution of Emanuel Bach’s Works in Vienna
      • Haydn’s Music and Emanuel Bach
  • Part Two: Style
    • VIII. Toward Defining Genre and Genre Types
      • Solo Keyboard Works
      • Accompanied Keyboard Works
      • Concertos
    • IX. The Concertos: Structure and Style
      • Cycle and Movement Types
      • First Movements
      • Second Movements
      • Finales
    • X. The Solo and Accompanied Keyboard Music: Structure and Style
      • The Earliest Works, before ca. 1765
      • Maturity, ca. 1765—ca. 1771
      • The Publicly Distributed Opere, ca. 1774—1784
      • Years of Extraordinary Achievements, 1788—1790
      • The London and Viennese Works of the 1790s
      • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • General Index
  • Index of Works

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    978-0-253-05585-9
  • publisher
    Indiana University Press
  • publisher place
    Bloomington, Indiana USA
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