The Viennese minor-key symphony in the age of Haydn and Mozart
Title:
The Viennese minor-key symphony in the age of Haydn and Mozart
Author:
Riley, Matthew, 1975- author.
ISBN:
9780199349685
9780199349692
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Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Contents:
The Viennese minor-key symphony -- Imperial court composers : Wagenseil, Gassmann, Ordonez -- Vanhal to 1771 : five first movements -- Two subgeneric conventions : the contrapuntal minuet, the stormy finale -- Studies in Haydn's minor-key symphonies 1763-1772 -- Vanhal's new paths : four later symphonies -- Modal reversal and characteristic symphonies -- Mozart and the minor-key symphony.
Abstract:
In late eighteenth-century Vienna and the Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies were written. Their distinctive stormy character, nervous energy and intense pathos make them a unique phenomenon.
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