The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia

For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point of comparison. And yet, unlike many other canonic composers, his music has remained a fixture in the repertoire from his day until ours. What do we need to know now in order to understand Haydn and his music? With over eighty entries focused on ideas and seven longer thematic essays to bring these together, this distinctive and richly illustrated encyclopedia offers a new perspective on Haydn and the many cultural contexts in which he worked and left his indelible mark during the Enlightenment and beyond. Contributions from sixty-seven scholars and performers in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, capture the vitality of Haydn studies today - its variety of perspectives and methods - and ultimately inspire further exploration of one of western music's most innovative and influential composers.

Preface and guide to readers; Acknowledgments; List of figures; List of musical examples; List of contributors; Chronology; Abbreviations; List of entries and essays; A-Z entries and essays; Bibliography; Index.

Caryl Clark is Professor of Music History and Culture at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and a Fellow of Trinity College. Editor of the Cambridge Companion to Haydn (Cambridge, 2005), and author of Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage (Cambridge, 2009), her research interests include Enlightenment aesthetics, Haydn, interdisciplinary opera studies, Orpheus, and the politics of musical reception – all generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Sarah Day-O'Connell is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Skidmore College, New York. A recipient of the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women and Music, she has held research fellowships at Yale University, Connecticut, the British Library, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on Haydn, the social contexts of singing, music and gender, theories of performance, and music studies within the liberal arts.