The life of Haydn : in a series of letters written at Vienna. Followed by the life of Mozart, with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of music in France and Italy
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Type of record: Book
Title: The life of Haydn : in a series of letters written at Vienna. Followed by the life of Mozart, with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of music in France and Italy
Other titles: Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase
Classmark: Music C-0 STE
Related people: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791; Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782
Publisher: J. Murray
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1817
Language: English
Size and medium: xv, 1 unnumbered page, 496 pages including illustrations (music) preliminary leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/203120
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"Canon cancrizans a 3 voce. Haydn": p. [331].
The life of Haydn is, in the main, a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine (Milan, 1812) The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Stendhal to Schlichtegroll, is practically a reproduction of Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrysostome-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart (Paris, 1801) with one anecdote added from another source. The last letter of the Mozart and the letter on Metastasio are by Stendhal. Cf. Stendhal, Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase; teste établi et annoté par Daniel Muller, préface de Romain Rolland (Paris, Champion, 1914). The notice of Mozart, attributed by Muller to C. Winckler, is by T. F. Winckler. Cf. Fétis, Biog. univ. des musiciens. 2. éd. VIII, 476; Quérard, France litt.; A. Schurig, Wolfgang Amade Mozart (Leipzig, 1923) I, 11.
Notes by William Gardiner.
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