W.Dean Sutcliffe, Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability: Haydn, Mozart and Friends (Cambridge University Press, 2020). xiv + 598 pp. £135 (hb). ISBN 9781107013810
Abstract:Press, 2020). xiv + 598 pp. £135 (hb). ISBN 9781107013810 The months before the start of the global pandemic in 2020 saw, in addition to a vast range of material celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th birthday, the publication of two books in which the composer plays very different roles. The first, Mark Evan Bonds's excellent The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography (Bonds 2020), focuses largely on the period after Beethoven's death, when the paradigm of individual expression began to take… Show more
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