Joseph Haydn's Keyboard Music: Sources and Style

Few musical repertoires have attracted such a convenient and thorough compendium of knowledge. --Early Music News

A. Peter Brown has performed an excellent service for devotees of early keyboard music, and for all students of eighteenth-century music . . . --Early Keyboard Journal

A. Peter Brown has created a unique compendium, discussing all of Haydn's works with keyboard, comparing them and placing them in a variety of contexts, historical, social and scholarly. --Journal of the American Musicological Society

. . . stimulating . . . a book for which pianists . . . must be thankful. --Journal of the American Liszt Society

Haydn scholar A. Peter Brown offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the composer's keyboard works, encompassing the solo sonatas, keyboard trios, accompanied divertimentos, concertos, concertinos, and Klavierstücke.

Author: A. Peter Brown
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 10/22/1986
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.86lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780253331823

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/1986