Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- PART I ESSAYS -- Haydn, Shakespeare, and the Rules of Originality ELAINE SISMAN -- The Creation, Haydn's Late Vocal Music, and the Musical Sublime JAMES WEB STER -- Haydn's London Piano Trios and His Salomon String Quartets: Private vs. Public? MARY HUNTER -- The Symphony as Pindaric Ode MARK EVAN BONDS -- Representing the Aristocracy:The Operatic Haydn and Le pescatrici REBECCA GREEN -- Haydn as Orator: A Rhetorical Analysis of His Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Hob.XVI:42 TOM BEGHIN -- The Demise of Philosophical Listening: Haydn in the Nineteenth Century LEON BOTSTEIN -- PART II DOCUMENTS -- Johann Ferdinand von Schönfeld, A Yearbook of Music in Vienna and Prague 1196 I. Special Friends, Protectors, and Connoisseurs in Vienna II. Virtuosos and Amateurs in Vienna III. Amateur Concerts TRANSLATED BY KATHRINE TALBOT -- Johann Karl Friedrich Triest, Remarks on the Development of the Art of Music in Germany in the Eighteenth Century (1801) TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE -- Maria Hörwarthner, Joseph Haydn's Library: An Attempt at a Literary-Historical Reconstruction TRANSLATED BY KATHRINE TALBOT -- Index -- List of Contributors.