Haydn's Farewell Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style: Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in His Instrumental Music by James Webster

Haydn's Farewell Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style: Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in His Instrumental Music

James Webster

373 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle...

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