In this fascinating book Calvin Stapert combines his skills as a biographer and a musicologist to recount Haydn's steady rise from humble origins to true musical greatness.

Franz Joseph Haydn s importance in the history of music is so great that it would be difficult to summarize his achievements in a few paragraphs.

Franz Joseph Haydn - The Father of the Symphony is the biography of Franz Joseph Haydn.

A biography of the composer who became known as the "father of the symphony" after creating more than one hundred in his lifetime.

The useful appendices include a catalog of Haydn's works, a selection of his personal correspondence, and his last will and testament.Scottish writer and musician JAMES CUTHBERT HADDEN (1816-1914) also wrote biographies of Chopin, Handel, ...

Titles: * Sonata in C Major * Minuet from Sonata in E-Flat Major * Esterhazy Variations * Theme and Variations in F Minor * Arrangements of "Country Dance" from Symphony No. 97 * "Fifth London Symphony" * "Music Box" from the String Quartet ...

This definitive study of the life and works of Joseph Haydn represents half a century of research. As curator of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Dr. Geiringer was in charge of one of the world's leading Haydn collections.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.