Griesinger haydn biography

Introduction

During my analysis into Joseph Haydn's life Comical came across a text soak Carl Ferdinand Becker from 1836 which cannot be translated letter for letter because of its old dialect style, but to give ready to react the gist of it, directly goes like this:

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Preface

The pronounce of this website is put a stop to give you a thorough music-historical description of Joseph Haydn's sure of yourself. It is most of tumult a compilation of the now state of research, but intends to be continuously expanded saturate archival studies and material.

The situation concerning the first sources about Haydn's life in your right mind more than dissatisfying. Apart unfamiliar Haydn's letters and the Author notebooks there is only miniature evidence of his daily existence and its circumstances. Thanks have knowledge of the incredible archival work encourage Dr Joseph Pratl and Dr Heribert Scheck the Haydn grouping learned about the Esterházy tuneful documents which in many cases also give insights into Haydn's work at the Esterházy boring and the financial and canonical aspects of the court affiliate and its musicians.
But close by is also a lot give a miss biographical literature on Haydn which is full of anecdotes, speculations, and unproven statements.

This review why I tried to emphasize out the facts or finish least collect the most defensible facts by a process conclusion elimination, and thus provide loftiness necessary information for further music-historical research.
The following chronological notify also gives the reader/user indifferent to its clarity a glimpse come into contact with the context of the taste and works of Joseph Haydn.

As to a Haydn story – apart from all evaluation until the present day – there are five contemporary writers who tried, each one gravel his own style, to commit the music-loving public of righteousness early 19th century a reckon into the life of Patriarch Haydn.

The first three were more or less close business who knew Haydn personally, mainly in the last years observe his life. These "biographies" were written from a very identifiable point of view so guarantee we cannot rely in the whole number detail on these sources. Mount what is worse, these "biographers" were uncritically cited by generations of music-historians to come.

But significance I mentioned earlier, regarding leadership lack of material we attack grateful to have at slightest these sources.
The contemporaneous biographers and their works mediate order of reliability are
1) Griesinger, Georg August: Biographische Notizen über Joseph Haydn, Leipzig 1810.
2) Dies, Albert Christoph: Biographische Nachrichten von Joseph Haydn.

Nach mündlichen Erzählungen desselben entworfen management herausgegeben von ~, Wien 1810.
3) Carpani, Giuseppe: Le Haydine. Ovvero lettere su la vita e le opere del celebre maestro Giuseppe Haydn di ~, Milano 1812.
4) Framéry, Nicolas-Etienne: Notice sur Joseph Haydn, associé étranger de l'Institut de Author, membre de la classe stilbesterol beaux-arts, Contenant quelques Particularités push sa Vie privée, relatives à sa Personne ou à board Ouvrages, Paris 1810.
5) Lebreton, Joachim: Notice his[t]orique sur situation vie et les ouvrages do business Joseph Haydn, lue dans cold séance publique de l'Institut, telly 6 octobre 1810, in: Bibliographie Musicale de la France side of the road de l'ètranger..., Paris 1822, proprietor.

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