The Haydn Economy: Music, Aesthetics, And Commerce In The Late Eighteenth Century (New Material Histories Of Music)
University of Chicago Press
ISBN13:
9780226819846
$51.14
Analyzing the final three decades of Haydns career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities. In this far-reaching work of music history and criticism, Nicholas Mathew reimagines the world of Joseph Haydn and his contemporaries, with its catastrophic upheavals and thrilling sense of potential. In the process, Mathew tackles critical questions of particular moment: how we tell the history of the European Enlightenment and Romanticism; the relation of late eighteenth-century culture to incipient capitalism and European colonialism; and how the modern market and modern aesthetic values wereand remaininextricably entwined. The Haydn Economy weaves a vibrant material history of Haydns career, extending from the sphere of the ancient Esterházy court to his frenetic years as an entrepreneur plying between London and Vienna to his final decade as a venerable musical celebrity, during which he witnessed the transformation of his legacy by a new generation of students and acolytes, Beethoven foremost among them. Ultimately, Mathew asserts, Haydns historical trajectory compels us to ask what we might retain from the cultural and political practices of European modernitywhether we can extract and preserve its moral promise from its moral failures. And it demands that we confront the deep histories of capitalism that continue to shape our beliefs about music, sound, and material culture.
- | Author: Nicholas Mathew
- | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 30, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Music
- | ISBN-10: 0226819841
- | ISBN-13: 9780226819846
- Author:
- Nicholas Mathew
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 30, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 256 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Music
- ISBN-10:
- 0226819841
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226819846