Haydn joseph

1786 · 41286 — Vienne: Chez Artaria Comp. PN 86 1786. Oblong folio. Disbound. i title with oval vignette engraved by Seb. Mansfeld of an aristocratic lady seated at a fortepiano playing from a large folio music book 2-15 i blank pp. Engraved throughout.<br /> <br /> Contains 10 short works for keyboard including arrangements of music from Haydn's opera La Vera Costanza. <br /> <br /> With contemporary signature and early stamp incorporating a shield topped by a crown to blank upper outer corner of title.<br /> <br /> Slightly worn; minor foxing mainly to blank margins of title; small dampstain to upper outer corner; some pages with irregular vertical ink lines as a result of printing from cracked plates. First Edition in this form. Rare. Weinmann p. 18. Hob. I:81/2 Hob. XXVIII:8/6 Hob. I:79/2 Hob. I:85/3 Hob. I:85/2 Hob. Ia:15/2 Hob. XVII:9 Hob. XXVIII:8 Hob. I:53/2 Hob. III:41/4. RISM H 4300 and HH 4300 no copies in the U.S. <br /> <br /> Haydn "began his career in the traditional patronage system of the late Austrian Baroque and ended as a 'free' artist within the burgeoning Romanticism of the early 19th century. Famous as early as the mid-1760s by the 1780s he had become the most celebrated composer of his time and from the 1790s until his death was a culture-hero throughout Europe. Since the early 19th century he has been venerated as the first of the three 'Viennese Classics' Haydn Mozart Beethoven. He excelled in every musical genre; during the first half of his career his vocal works were as famous as his instrumental ones although after his death the reception of his music focussed on the latter except for The Creation. He is familiarly known as the 'father of the symphony' and could with greater justice be thus regarded for the string quartet; no other composer approaches his combination of productivity quality and historical importance in these genres. In the 20th century he was understood primarily as an 'absolute' musician exhibiting wit originality of form motivic saturation and a 'modernist' tendency to problematize music rather than merely to compose it but earnestness depth of feeling and referential tendencies are equally important to his art." Georg Feder and James Webster in Grove Music Online. Chez Artaria Comp. [PN 86] unknown