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The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna; Followed by the Life of Mozart
Stendhal
Biographical essays / music criticism / reception history · 1817 · English, translated from French
Stendhal. The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna; Followed by the Life of Mozart. London: John Murray, 1817.
This early music-biographical classic presents Haydn through a sequence of letters and then turns to Mozart, interspersing anecdote, aesthetic judgment and broad comments on European musical life. Stendhal’s enthusiasm gives the book unusual immediacy, but modern scholarship has established that substantial portions were derived from Giuseppe Carpani and…
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Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume I — Haydn: The Early Years, 1732–1765
H. C. Robbins Landon
Documentary biography / chronicle, volume 1 · 1976–1980 · English
H. C. Robbins Landon. Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume I — Haydn: The Early Years, 1732–1765. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976–1980.
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume I — Haydn: The Early Years, 1732–1765 is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Joseph Haydn. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is…
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Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume II — Haydn at Eszterháza, 1766–1790
H. C. Robbins Landon
Documentary biography / chronicle, volume 2 · 1976–1980 · English
H. C. Robbins Landon. Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume II — Haydn at Eszterháza, 1766–1790. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976–1980.
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume II — Haydn at Eszterháza, 1766–1790 is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Joseph Haydn. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially…
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Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume III — Haydn in England, 1791–1795
H. C. Robbins Landon
Documentary biography / chronicle, volume 3 · 1976–1980 · English
H. C. Robbins Landon. Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume III — Haydn in England, 1791–1795. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976–1980.
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume III — Haydn in England, 1791–1795 is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Joseph Haydn. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially…
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Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume IV — Haydn: The Years of The Creation, 1796–1800
H. C. Robbins Landon
Documentary biography / chronicle, volume 4 · 1976–1980 · English
H. C. Robbins Landon. Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume IV — Haydn: The Years of The Creation, 1796–1800. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976–1980.
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume IV — Haydn: The Years of The Creation, 1796–1800 is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Joseph Haydn. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant.…
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Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume V — Haydn: The Late Years, 1801–1809
H. C. Robbins Landon
Documentary biography / chronicle, volume 5 · 1976–1980 · English
H. C. Robbins Landon. Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume V — Haydn: The Late Years, 1801–1809. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976–1980.
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Volume V — Haydn: The Late Years, 1801–1809 is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Joseph Haydn. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is…
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Haydn: His Life and Music
David Wyn Jones
Biography / composer / works study · 2009 · English
David Wyn Jones. Haydn: His Life and Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
This expanded dossier treats Haydn: His Life and Music as a substantial source on Joseph Haydn. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person…
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Haydn: A Documentary Study
H. C. Robbins Landon
Documentary biography / composer · 1981 · English
H. C. Robbins Landon. Haydn: A Documentary Study. Thames & Hudson, 1981.
This curated dossier identifies Haydn: A Documentary Study by H. C. Robbins Landon as a distinct biographical or documentary source within Classical Archive. It is included not merely as a title record but as a research-oriented entry: the book is indexed by subject, author and title variants, and…
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The Great German Composers
George T. Ferris
Collected biographical sketches / popular music history · 1880 / later 1883 edition · English
George T. Ferris. The Great German Composers. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880 / later 1883 edition.
Ferris’s volume assembles compact biographies of major German and Austro-German composers for the late nineteenth-century general reader. Its sequence helped popularize a canonical narrative running from Bach and Handel through Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic generation and Wagner.
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