The reception of Franz Joseph Haydn in Austria and Germany 1798-1830 [electronic resource] : biography and criticism / Ellis T. Anderson II.

• Haydn reception remains a vastly under explored area within Haydn research. Though Matthew Head and Leon Botstein have made recent contributions, there remains a need for a thorough examination of the period immediately surrounding Haydn's death in 1809. With the gradual, but at the same time radical, shift in aesthetic thought that took place in the late eighteenth century and into the nineteenth century, Haydn's reputation in German speaking lands changes as well. Whereas, in the 1790s, he routinely received the highest veneration as a composer of "inexhaustible genius," by the 1810s and into the 20s the praise was quieter, with critics excepting his status primarily in connection with Mozart and especially Beethoven. Within the backdrop of the shift from the late eighteenth-century aesthetic to Romanticism, three important sources for Haydn reception demonstrate the shift in his status. Criticism of Haydn treated by himself, which was steady until shortly after his death, remains unequivocally positive of Haydn's music and status. The earliest three biographies, which are very admiring of the composer, nonetheless through their discussion of his personality and music establish many of the stereotypes of Haydn that would persist. Finally, Beethoven criticism firmly widens the divide between the two composers seeing Haydn as the originator of many of the genres that Beethoven then perfected. 

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University of Cincinnati -- Theses. Master of Music. 2005.