Haydn's 'L'Infedeltà Delusa'

Hughes, Rosemary; Haydn,; Landon, H. C. Robbins

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“…As we shall see, Rosemary Hughes's view, that Haydn was "the most unliterary of men," whose library consisted "largely of technical treatises on music" is, quite simply, incorrect. 19 It likewise ill behooves us to view with undue skepticism Haydn's frequenting Viennese salons of the 1780s, salons in which reading and discussion centered on early Enlightenment writers or on contemporaries with similar beliefs, such as Lessing, Jacobi, Johann Caspar Lavater, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Haydn knew and corresponded with Lavater; and the composer not only set Gellert's verse to music but also called Gellert his hero.…”

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Haydn's Creation and Enlightenment Theology

Berry¹

2008

Austrian Hist Yearbk

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Haydn's two great oratorios, The Creation and The Seasons (Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten) stand as monuments—on either side of the year 1800—to the Enlightenment and to the Austrian Enlightenment in particular. This is not to claim that they have no connection with what would often be considered more “progressive”—broadly speaking, romantic—tendencies. However, like Haydn himself, they are works that, if a choice must be made, one would place firmly in the eighteenth century, “long” or otherwise. The age of musical classicism was far from dead by 1800, likewise the “Age of Enlightenment.” It is quite true that one witnesses in both the emergence of distinct national, even “nationalist,” tendencies. Yet these intimately connected “ages” remain essentially cosmopolitan, especially in the sphere of intellectual history and “high” culture. Haydn's oratorios not only draw on Austrian tradition; equally important, they are also shaped by broader influence, especially the earlier English Enlightenment, in which the texts of both works have their origins. The following essay considers the theology of The Creation with reference to this background and, to a certain extent, also attempts the reverse, namely, to consider the Austrian Enlightenment in the light of a work more central to its concerns than might have been expected.

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Section: Mark Berrymentioning

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Haydn's Creation and Enlightenment Theology

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