Haydn and Mozart in the long nineteenth century : parallel and intersecting patterns of reception /

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.Introduction -- Papa and the matador, alive and dead : Haydn and Mozart, 1792-1810 -- Biographical and critical narratives and perspectives, 1811-1830 -- Anniversaries, commemorations, writings : the developing reputations of Haydn and Mozart, 1831-1860 -- Scholarship and fiction in the late nineteenth century, 1861-1890 -- Anniversaries in context, 1891-1914 -- Epilogue : Continuity and change."The first extended study of the combined reception of Haydn and Mozart in the long nineteenth century, this book generates new, holistic understandings of their musical, cultural, and historical significance in the Germanic, French, and Anglophone worlds. It places a wide range of written sources under the microscope, including serious and popular biographies, scholarship, musical and non-musical criticism, and a diverse body of fiction, and evaluates the impact of anniversary commemorations. Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century determines how reputations, images, and narratives for the two composers converge, diverge, develop at different speeds, and influence one another. Countering received wisdom about Haydn's reputational decline and reassessing Mozart reception through consideration of a broad spectrum of publications, we hear Haydn and Mozart speaking to the long nineteenth century in more nuanced, powerful, and persuasive voices than previously recognized. Simon P. Keefe is James Rossiter Hoyle Chair of Music at the University of Sheffield and a life member of the Academy for Mozart Research at the International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg. He is the author of four previous books on Mozart, including Mozart's Requiem: Reception, Work, Completion (Cambridge, 2012), which won the 2013 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award, and a major musical biography Mozart in Vienna: The Final Decade (Cambridge, 2017), and editor of a further seven volumes for Cambridge University Press, including Mozart Studies, Mozart Studies 2 and Mozart in Context." --