Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Editor's note -- 1 The consequences of presumed innocence: the nineteenth-century reception of Joseph Haydn -- 1 The Haydn paradox: from engaged a.ection to distant respect -- 2 The nineteenth-century consensus -- 3 Four aspects of paradoxical innocence: Haydn's dei cation into irrelevance -- Haydn as touchstone -- Biographical assumptions -- The demise of philosophical music -- The ideology of connoisseurship and the need for a normative Classicism -- 2 Haydn's sacred vocal music and the aesthetics of salvation -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 3 Sentiment and sensibility in La vera costanza -- Haydn the dramatist? -- Haydn's 'Pamela' and the cult of sensibility -- Haydn's transformation of the sentimental heroine -- The power of sensibility in the plot -- Conclusion -- 4 Haydn as Romantic: a chemical experiment with instrumental music -- Body language -- Life-force -- Chemical analysis -- Conscious life form -- Arti cial reality -- Optimistic pessimism -- 5 Haydn's 'Cours complet de la composition' and the Sturm und Drang -- 6 Haydn's reversals: style change, gesture and the implication-realization model -- 1 Stormy style shapes -- 2 Galant schemata -- 7 Haydn's symphonies between Sturm und Drang and 'Classical style': art and entertainment -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 8 The Haydn piano trio: textual facts and textural principles -- 9 Papa Doc's recap caper: Haydn and temporal dyslexia -- 10 Haydn: the musicians'musician -- Index.