Ebook: Haydn: The Creation
Author: Temperley Nicholas
- Genre: Art // Music
- Tags: Music, Eighteenth century, Haydn Joseph -- 1732-1809 -- Schöpfung, Schöpfung (Haydn Joseph)
- Series: Cambridge music handbooks
- Year: 1991
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- City: Cambridge
- Language: English
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Haydn's Creation is one of the great masterpieces of the classical period. In this absorbing and original account the author places the work within the oratorio tradition, contrasting the theological and literary character of the English libretto with the Viennese milieu of the first performances. The complete text is provided in both English and German versions as a reference point for discussion of the design of Read more...