Haydn and the Enlightenment: The Late Symphonies and Their Audience

Abstract

Part 1 Haydn and enlightened thought: Haydn and Shaftesbury - music and morality pre-English literary influences the lodge Zue wahren Eintracht, opera, rhetoric and rittergedichte string quartets, Op. 33 - a new and special way theory versus practice - aesthetics and instrumental music symphonic ascent - pre-Paris to the loge olympique. Part 2 Audience reception and England: the composer - audience relationship Haydn and the English audience. Part 3 The symphonies: symphonic intelligibility and sonata form melodic sources and musical images symphonies and the salomon concerts.