The last month of the year 1791 witnessed what H.C. Robbins Landon calls "the greatest tragedy in the history of music": the premature death of the thirty-five-year-old Mozart. Surrounded by enigma an
Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons, and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscuri
Brought to England by the great impresario J. P. Salomon, Joseph Haydn (who had just left the service of the Esterhazy Court) rapidly became one of the best-known figures in London's musical life in t
Discussing the solo piano musicof Joseph Haydn, the leading composer of the Classical period, this complete survey includes a graded list of all of these works as well as detailed and construct
This is probably the best of Haydn's early short masses, and certainly the most well-known. The Robbins Landon edition, based on the original performance materials, is now the standard, authoritative
